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Well, you don't gots to be no Sherlock Homes-Boy to know we favour the Telecaster type of instrument around here, and we kinda secretly dig the Explorer too, in a naughty kinda way. But of course, the tele sound wins hands down..So, this one is a box-ticker of a whole different type! It's from the era of Grande`Guitar Dumbness (1982!), but it doesn't have a locking trem & doesn't have active electronics. So. it's basically a Tele with a cool headstock 7 pitch for better sustain and a whole lot of spanky sparkly tone! Try finding neu-funk like this, the Corporate Design Police would never allow it, no focus on any specific market sector!And dang good value for a J-made piece of special.
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I updated instead from github, which caused elefant to show a click to update button in the browser. When I clicked, I got an SQL error because MySQL doesn't like the
default '' for the text field
about in the
user table.
I just pushed a change that gets rid of the default value for
about. Let me know if that fixes it.
Yup, it fixed it. Thanks. Do you know what the other error (
Error: Unable to fetch file. releases/1.3.json) is about?
Looks like Github's raw urls have changed to raw.githubusercontent.com instead of raw.github.com. I just pushed an update, unfortunately that doesn't really help with existing sites since it pertains to the updater...
Yeah, quite a Catch 22!
I have a (hopefully sensible and easy to implement) request. Would you consider configuring your text editor to add an EOL character to the end of text files? It would clean up my (and maybe others'?) git diffs. http://robots.thoughtbot.com/no-newline-at-end-of-file
What do you think about omitting the closing tags instead? Extra white space can cause issues after closing tags, so maybe it's time I unlearn the habit of always including them... :P
I think we're talking about two different things. (?)
What I mean is that I'd probably include an EOL character if it weren't for the closing PHP tag, which I usually try to avoid having any extra characters after. So when I use closing tags, I prefer not to have an extra EOL on the chance that extra whitespace could sneak in there and mess something up.
I see. As I understand it, it's not really an extra EOL character -- it's just the line feed at the end of the last line. There's not actually any white space below the closing tag.
Without EOL:
With EOL
However, I guess some editors show it as white space below the last line. Discussions: One Two
But I would take the PHP closing tag over the EOL character if I had to choose one or the other.
Back to the default value for about: I don't have an about field on my signup page, so I get
Error creating profile: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'about' doesn't have a default value
Not hard to add
about to the handler, but I mention it because I believe the default elefant user signup form also doesn't include the
about field.
Do you mean you'd prefer to keep the closing tags over having an EOL character at the end? If so, why is that?
I'm kind of leaning towards getting rid of the closing tags in .php files at some point, since that's what the PHP manual recommends, and only haven't because I've been in the habit of including them for so long.
Ah yes, the about not having a default value breaks the
user/signup form. I've been using SQLite too much these days... Just added an empty about field to
user/signup and
user/login/newuser (for social logins).
Do you mean you'd prefer to keep the closing tags over having an EOL character at the end? If so, why is that?
Well, I hadn't really thought about the closing tag issue, so I don't really have an opinion about that (other than a reflexive "if it's been opened, it seems good if it's closed").
The line ending thing affects me more because I use linux on my work computers and linux tools expect text files to end with an EOL. In particular, the way I update elefant is to pull the changes into a mirror on my machine and then run a script to find differences in my sites (to make sure I don't overwrite any hacks I might have made to core files). Currently, that script reports every EOL/no EOL difference as an actual change, so there's a lot of noise.
I think getting rid of the closing tags and requiring the last line of all .php files to be an empty line (which is in line with the PSR standard, although I diverge from it on a few other things like tabs) should solve the noisy diff issue.
I should be able to remove them all with a quick shell script.
Still not sure if we're talking about the same thing because they don't display with an empty last line for me.
It's not only .php files -- it's any text file. This is the quick and dirty command I'm using at the moment to add the final EOL:
find . -type f -name '*.php' -o -name '*.html' -o -name '*.css' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.js' -o -name '.htaccess' | sed -i -e '$a\'
I haven't checked every .css or .js file, but I removed the PHP closing tags and ensured all layout and view templates as well as .php files should have an EOL now. I'm usually in the habit of including an extra newline at the end of my .css and .js files already, so most are probably okay too :)
Thanks, I'll check it out this weekend.
OK, I checked it out and all the .php and .html files work perfectly now. I still get diff variations for .css, .js, .txt, .sql, and .htaccess files. Examples:
diff tests/.htaccess $CLIENT/tests/.htaccess
< </Files>
\ No newline at end of file
> </Files>
diff apps/user/css/details.css $CLIENT/apps/user/css/details.css
< }
\ No newline at end of file
> }
Upon further checking, the .php files in
lib/vendor and the .html files in
apps/cli lack EOLs. Also a couple other places, but it's much cleaner now, so thank you.
Re: default value for
about: Would it be good to add it to
user/add, too? (Just ran into this.)
Re: the github url: if we change the url in
apps/cli/lib/Updater.php can we run the updater safely?
I believe so!

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Ode To Honest Wreckers
We've all seen it.
Bakers with delusions of competency.
Yes, these professionals lure in clients with pretty pictures and promises, only to shatter their pastry pipe dreams with poor planning and pathetic, um... skills.
That's why I'd like to thank all the bakers out there who proudly let their wreck flags fly, showing us exactly what to expect when we order from them.
In fact, I wrote you a poem, honest bakers.
[ahem hem hem]
Thank you for your honesty
In building your display
Your heap of melty sugar
Should scare us all away
And thanks for making it easy
To choose another store
Not that I don't appreciate
Some good ol' fashioned gore
Thanks for guiding blushing brides
With wisdom past their years:
That any wedding cake from you
Will only end in tears.
And thanks for being straightforward,
I expected nothing less.
You put it all right out there
With your drippy race car mess.
Thanks to you for having
the courage to admit
That when you try to decorate
It's going to look like... really, really bad.
Thanks to Lesley B., Laura S., Anony M., Tiffany M., Martha C., & Jenna M. for dropping a load of truth on us.
Thank you for using our Amazon links to shop! USA, UK, Canada.


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About Ron
Wow, they get to alter their landscaping?! My HOA makes it clear that they own everything from the paint on my walls outward; except for the exterior doors and windows. That leaves the interior airspace as mine.
"The study analyzed more than 12,000 sexually explicit images uploaded by young people ..."
Where does one sign up for these studies?
That word and his defense of it is one of the stupidest things I've heard.
Also referred to as racial memory. Look at the part of the story line of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. The reason the aliens did not reveal themselves to the humans was because of human racial memory.
Some also think that the general fear of snakes is due to a genetic memory imbedded in most, if not all, mammals.
Well, maybe the regulation of internatinal roaming will bring down the rates I pay when I'm traveling in Europe. Oh well, the Internet was nice while it lasted.
Well, India has the manpower. Let India hire the country to scan facebook, etc. for any disparaging remarks made against anything in India. Just hire the whole country. That will then occupy all those people currently doing outsourcing work for US companies, take them out of the workforce so that those jobs can come back to the US.
Short term, Google, et al, could simply block these idiots from the Indian government from appearing in anything presented and just say they are abiding by what the Indian politicians want.
Assuming for a moment that the E-mail was legitimate, that the contents are really medical records of some sort, and that it was simply incorrectly addressed, and that the data was sent in the clear, then the sender is certainly in violation of the law by sending confidential information over an open network without having at least encrypted the data.
... why typing in your password to decrypt a drive or even to gain access to a PC is different than compelling someone to open a safe. In both cases you are unlocking a thing so the contents can be seen. The only difference is that in one case the contents are physical things and in the other they are digital. I presume that a search warrant is still required in either case and that should mean that the state has provided sufficient evidence to a court that there may be evidence pertient to the legal proceeding in the locked thing.
What about packing the device into a small box and then send it via FedEx or something to some address in Lebanon or similar. Could be fun for the FBI to track. If it sounds like a good idea maybe we should agree on where to send them all. Then the FBI can start worrying that all their suspects are suddenly gathering at a single location.
"So, I mean, in cases where there are no tools of communication, people still get together. So I don't see that as being a - in looking at history, I don't see the absence of efficient tools of communication as being a limiting factor on the ability people to socially"
Actually, reading this, there is a valid point to be made: that, the absence of efficient communications tools does not limit the ability of people to interact. It may impede that interaction by adding significant time delay but there are many means to communicate that do not require direct interaction. For example: 1000 years ago, people separated by 1000 miles wrote letters to each other.
What I see missing the logic is the point, already made, that efficient forms of communications increase the speed at which the personal interaction occurs. Moreover, there is still the issue that in many of these protest uprisings, person to person communications would still be fairly efficient because the population density allows word of mouth to quickly pass neighboorhood to neighboorhod without the need of the physical carrier to travel any great distance.
Sony has its right to treat its customers any way it likes. However, if you don't like the way that Sony, or any other company for that matter, then don't become a customer. The net result is that they will have only happy or complacent customers and you will be happy not to be under the thumb of the tyrant.
Well, that MIGHT be my real name. But,everything else about me is pure fiction.
I gave Assange the instructions for adding automatic doorlocks to the Prius AND the means to disable the lock that prevent entering a destination into the NAV system WHILE the vehicle is in motion. But, don't tell anyone.
My Prius is a rolling arsenal of potential piracy tools. ANd, it's both mobile AND stealth.
My Prius has something like 14 major computers in it. If I commit any crive, am I going to be charged with 14 counts of using a computer while committing a crime? Plus, I have an iPhone. That would be 15 counts.
... for a politician, or a lobbyist: the ability, nay, the predisposition, to lie.
We do it, so they're gonna do it. If all the US Internet censors and supporters of censorship jumped off a bridge, would he Chiness equivalents do that as well? Oh, wait, that would be a good thing. Carry on!
How does a computer glitch explain that an apparently dead police office signed and certified the tickets? The computer signs for the officer? Then the human did not do it. The officer tells the computer that it's ok to sign and send the ticket? Then someone was logging on with the credentials of the dead officer. Either way, a lie. "Computer gliches" almost never explain the actual problem.
Do you guys have any control over the ads served up by Google on your postings? I mean, it's kinda funny that on a page taling about trademark abuse, etc. you see the following ads:
Free Cease & Desist Form The Easiest Way to Make Cease & Desist Letters Online. Free to Try! RocketLawyer.com
Fast Trademark Filings Register Your Trademark in Minutes. Featured by Entrepreneur and CNN. LegalZoom.com
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... hinder emergency responders. A while ago I was in a theater where a guy collapsed from a heart attack. Several people ran out to find the theater management. About a dozen more (yes, overkill, but, there was a guy dying in the aisle) called 911. The paramedics showed up within 3 minutes. The theater manager came in AFTER the paramedics to find out what was going on. Yes, we got emergency help before there were cell phones, but many venues like this are now run by quite a reduced staff so that it's more difficult to find help. The cell phone, and 911, removes at least one impediment.
Serves the f*cker right!
We should expect to see this guy near the top of the 2011 Darwin Awards
Appropriation: a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"
So, by one definition, Koons is a thief seeking to increase the value of his theft.


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Press Release: Jordan Subscribes to the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard
January 28, 2010Press Release No. 10/19
January 28, 2010
Jordan subscribed today to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), bringing the number of subscribing countries to 67.
"Jordan's subscription to the SDDS represents a major step forward for official statistics in Jordan and for those who use these data," said Ms. Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz, Director of the IMF's Statistics Department. "Subscription to the standards underscores the strong commitment to transparency in Jordan, as well as a significant achievement in implementing internationally accepted best practices in statistics," Ms. Burgi-Schmelz added.
The SDDS, established by the IMF in March 1996, is intended to guide members in the provision of their economic and financial data to the public. Subscription to the SDDS is expected to enhance the availability of timely and comprehensive statistics, thereby contributing to the pursuit of sound macroeconomic policies and the improved functioning of financial markets. The SDDS identifies four dimensions of data dissemination—the data: coverage, periodicity, and timeliness; access by the public; the integrity of the disseminated data; and the quality of the disseminated data. Although subscription is voluntary, a subscribing member commits to observe the standard and to provide information (metadata) to the IMF about its data dissemination practices. This information is made publicly available on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).
The DSBB now provides comprehensive documentation in English on the statistical practices of Jordan for SDDS data categories, hyperlinked to actual country data included in the mandatory National Summary Data Page maintained by the Central Bank of Jordan.
Useful links:
Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board: http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/sddshome/
Jordan National Summary Data Page: http://www.cbj.gov.jo/uploads/NSDP_2010.HTML
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We imagine a fanciful, perhaps overgrown, French garden to be the inspiration behind Debra Moreland's kissing pair. Two tiny, pearl-beaked doves sit kissing on swing, while Swarovski-studded vines and blooms wrap them cozily inside their crown-like cage. Once beautiful on top your cake, this piece will continue to sit beautifully on a shelf or tabletop for years to come. From Paris by Debra Moreland. Enameled metal, Swarovski crystals. Hand wash. Handmade in USA.
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Sure, you could buy official Lego and official nerdy trading cards for franchises like Batman or Star Wars. The toys would probably be well-made and exactly what you'd expect them to be. It would also be booooring.
YouTuber ashens obtained a number of bogus Asian toys, and he walks us through all the cheap plastic, awful packaging and irregular English that come with these playthings. Stumbling with language isn't in of itself funny — it happens — but the way some packaging seems to mix up different heroes all of a sudden is priceless. Really, all of this is kind of amazing — and there is at least one cool toy in here to boot (which is good, because surely some of these toys are bought precisely because they're cheaper — there's nothing wrong with that!)
Give it a watch.
Fake Lego - Star Wars, Turtles, Batman Begins cards | Ashens[Ashens]


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In the future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle's exhausts.
United Kingdom - In the future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle's exhausts.
A team from The University of Manchester has constructed a laser measuring device capable of recording levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane from directly inside an exhaust.
Once optimized, the process could be incorporated into on board diagnostic systems that would monitor emissions as vehicles drive along - and potentially help people reduce their emissions by adjusting their driving style.
Reporting in the Optical Society of America's journal Applied Optics , academics claim this approach is faster and more sensitive than the extractive techniques normally used to monitor emissions.
In an MOT test, for example, exhaust emissions are extracted into a box while the engine is idling and the gases present are then measured.
The University of Manchester team employed a device known as a 'near-IR diode laser sensor' to measure the variation in gas concentration during changes in the operating conditions of a Rover engine, such as increasing and decreasing the throttle, adjusting the air to fuel ratio, and start-up.
"This is the first instance of this type of near-IR diode laser sensor being used directly in the exhaust of a static internal combustion engine to measure emissions," said Dr Philip Martin from The School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science (CEAS), one of the paper's authors.
The team say the components for the device are readily available and the near-IR technology allows highly accurate readings to be taken and also cuts out interference.
In the studies reported in Applied Optics, the near-IR device used two diode lasers operating at different frequencies; one detecting carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and the other detecting methane.
The team measured the emissions produced by a Rover K-series car engine mounted on a test bed - but they have also taken the process outside the laboratory and measured exhaust emissions in passing vehicles.
"Components handling the high sensitivity and robustness required to apply this approach in the real world are only now becoming available," added Dr Martin. "We have already constructed a battery-powered roadside unit using the same technology, employing rugged and robust telecommunications components."
The next steps will be to fully quantify the technique and add additional lasers for other key emissions such as nitrogen oxide, nitrogen dioxide and specific hydrocarbons.
Dr Martin, who is a co-founder of University spin-out company TDL Sensors, says the technology could also potentially be used in roadside congestion charging systems, with less polluting vehicles being charged less.
More Information About In-Situ Monitoring:
For details of measurements see 'Multispecies in situ monitoring of a static internal combustion engine by near-infrared diode laser sensors', Yvan Gérard, Robert J. Holdsworth, and Philip A Martin. It can be downloaded from: http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=138440


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It is wrong to collect sales tax from online sales by the state where the customer lives ("Senate OKs online sales tax" May 6). If I take the highway to another state, I pay tax in that state. If I take the information superhighway, I should pay sales tax in the point-of-sale state. This is most likely the state where the store is located or where the product was created, manufactured, processed, warehoused, designed, grown, etc. Sales tax should not be a way for state governments to make money without contributing anything to the commerce process.
If online sales taxes are warranted, it should be by the state where the product is purchased from. This could help lower sales taxes everywhere because states with extremely high sales taxes couldn't compete with online prices in other states and would lose a lot of online business.
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Europeans have been making fast tractors for years. Now U.S. makers are entering the race. Together they will redefine how Americans think about tractors.
Five years ago, a small, relatively unknown company from the U.K. crossed the Atlantic and set out to put the North American tractor industry on its rim. The company, JCB, introduced a tractor called Fastrac that could travel up to 40 mph on the highway.
Such speeds are commonplace in Europe, where farmers use tractors in place of pickups for transportation and hauling over the road and are required to keep up with traffic. However, to U.S. farmers such a speed was virtually unheard of.
What compelled JCB to make such a radical move? "It goes back to pretty much the same reason we started building the tractor in Europe," says Ray Bingley, Fastrac product manager. "The face of ag is changing."
With farms getting bigger and more scattered, farmers and their tractors are spending more time on the road, according to Bingley. The Fastrac is designed to cut that time so that farmers can spend more time in the field.
As proof of their success, sales of Fastrac tractors in this country have increased steadily every year despite a slumping farm economy. And U.S. tractor makers are now in a race of playing catch-up by designing their own versions of a faster tractor. In the process, they will redefine the way American farmers think about tractors.
Race against time. Attempts to break tractor speed limits are not new, according to Jay Agness, chairman of the ag tractors committee of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) and a John Deere engineer. "Back in the 1910s and up to 1930, steel wheels limited transport speeds," Agness says. "Then we got rubber tires. But the rubber tires we had at the time weren't that great, and they limited transport speeds. Now we have radials."
Up until the last five years, tractor speeds in the U.S. had reached a plateau of 20 mph. Then AGCO, Case IH, John Deere and New Holland all inched them up to 25 mph and now are attempting to raise them again to match the speed of Fastrac.
Currently, the tractor closest to matching it is AGCO's Fendt tractor, a European import introduced to the U.S. market just this year. The 700 and 900 series tractors can reach speeds as high as 31 mph.
Tying for third are John Deere's 6000 and 7000 TEN Series and Case IH's MX Series Magnum and MX Series Maxxum tractors. Both companies' tractors can get up to 28 mph. Fourth in the race is New Holland's TM tractors, introduced last fall, which can go up to 25 mph.
Increasing speeds another 10 to 15 mph could be done today from a transmission standpoint, the manufacturers claim, simply by changing the gear ratios or increasing maximum engine speed. The barriers they face have more to do with how to maintain control of the vehicle, along with the implements it is pulling, as it approaches highway speeds. Specifically, the challenges include:
Suspension: When tractors reach a speed of around 25 mph, they have a tendency to bounce from the vibration of the road. The risk is that the driver can lose control of the vehicle. To counter that effect, AGCO, Case IH, John Deere and New Holland in the past two years have all suspended the front axle of their fastest models - which allows the front wheels to move independently of the chassis - and have added springs and dampeners similar to those used in automobiles (see chart). In the past, when tractors were designed to operate at speeds under 25 mph, tires provided about all the dampening that was needed.
Fendt and New Holland also offer cab suspension on their fastest models to reduce bounce in the field. However, JCB is the only company in the U.S. that offers full suspension - that is, front-axle, cab and rear-axle suspension - which Bingley says is necessary at speeds higher than 30 mph to keep the driver completely safe and in control of the vehicle.
Braking: Getting the tractor to stop at 40 mph will be another challenge. "The energy in a vehicle moving down the highway is proportional to the square of velocity," Agness explains. "So if you double the speed, you have four times the energy in motion and it will take four times the braking energy to stop the vehicle."
As a result, the industry may need to move toward braking standards similar to those that apply to today's trucks, according to Scott Dunbar, a John Deere engineer and chairperson of the ASAE Ag Braking Committee. Such standards may require, for instance, braking on all four wheels as opposed to only the two rear wheels, manual (in addition to hydraulic) braking on both tractors and implements that would stop the vehicles in the event of engine failure, and an automatic disconnect feature that would automatically apply brakes to the implement if it were to come loose from the tractor.
William Schubert, chief engineer at Case IH and member of ASAE's braking standards committee, envisions a systems solution in which the tractor and implement would be sold together as a unit to ensure adequate braking, and older implements would not be allowed to be towed at those higher speeds. "We will have to find a way to make sure that if you are using a high-speed tractor, you are pulling high-speed equipment, similar to the 3-pt. hitch standards set by ASAE in which the 3-pt. hitch can only be used to hook 3-pt. equipment," Schubert says.
Steering: Steering systems also will need to be ramped up. Currently, most tractors built for the U.S. offer fully hydrostatic steering, where steering is done hydraulically. However, as we get to higher speeds, tractor makers may need to add a mechanical connection between the steering wheel and wheels so that if the vehicle were to lose hydraulic oil or burst a hydraulic hose, it would still be possible to steer it.
Lighting: At higher speeds, tractors and implements will need to be more visible. JCB's Fastrac, for example, has a full set of road-going lights, including indicator lights, bright lights and reverse lights on all four corners of the vehicle. "So if you were to see one coming down the road at night, you'd think it was a truck coming toward you," Bingley says.
Tires: Tire performance will need to be improved to ensure stability at higher speeds, according to Ed Hines, senior product engineer for New Holland. For example, manufacturers will need to reduce lug vibrations and run out on rim assemblies and ensure trueness of the radial circumference.
Hitches: Hines says tighter hitch linkages will be needed to reduce the amount of freeplay between the tractor and implement during towing.
Close to finish? Overcoming these barriers could take as few as two years or as many as 10, U.S. makers estimate. And ASAE is simultaneously working on developing standards for the companies to follow that would set minimum requirements in each of these areas.
"The worst that can happen is for someone to jump in and do something with half knowledge and make a mistake," Agness says. "And if a bad accident happens, it could bring a brash of laws and litigation that will set the whole thing back 10 years if we do it wrong. If we do it right, with full knowledge of what we are doing, we can keep moving forward. And that is our hope."
Once manufacturers mechanically figure out how to reach those speeds, there will be other implications for buyers. "It will redefine how off-road traffic is viewed on the road," says Dr. Mark Hanna, extension ag engineer at Iowa Sate University.
For example, currently tractors and wagons are classified as slow moving vehicles (SMVs). But as tractors begin to rival the speeds of trucks, the current law may need to be revised to either change the definition of an SMV or make exempt tractors that can operate at 40 mph.
Iowa lawmakers have already begun to wrestle with these issues, Hanna says. And just last year, the state changed the speed classification for SMVs from 25 to 35 mph to keep faster tractors covered under law.
Another implication is licensing, according to New Holland's Hines. "As you make this tractor perform more like a truck, what expectations, both in terms of state and federal highway regulations, will you encounter?" he asks. For example, he says lawmakers will need to determine whether drivers of tractors should be licensed and held to the same type of highway penalties and insurance requirements as drivers of trucks.
What's more, the price tag on faster tractors will be higher than that for conventional tractors because of the added performance features. Just how much higher is unknown. But if AGCO's new Fendt tractor is any indication, buyers can expect to pay 15 to 20% more than what they are paying now for a conventional tractor.
Weighing the premium. Buyers will need to determine whether such a markup is justified. And for many farmers, it may not be.
However, Dexter Schaible, vice president of engineering and product development worldwide at AGCO, says that for farmers who do a lot of road travel, even a 50-kph transmission (31 mph) could come in handy. "Basically by going from 40 to 50 kph, you will get there 20% faster," Schaible says. "So the demand is going to come."
Reece Miller, senior marketing representative for Deere's 6000 and 7000 TEN series tractors, estimates that 20% of the market will go to a higher-speed transmission once it becomes available. "And it will continue to get larger because time is something everybody values," Miller says.
JCB's Bingley believes almost all Midwest corn and soybean farmers would be potential customers for a fast tractor because of the increased gains in productivity. However, he says the number who would be good candidates for a Fastrac is somewhat lower, more like 40%. The reason is that the Fastrac has an 80-in. wheel spacing rather than a 60-in. required for crops grown in 30-in. rows.
"A tractor on 60-in. tire centers is very narrow," he says. "And that very narrow tractor doing high speeds is not the ideal combination. If you listen to Pontiac, wider is better."
However, Bingley believes that as the market develops, the company will design a Fastrac tractor with a 60-in. wheelbase.
Fast tractors being designed by U.S. companies also will likely come with a 60-in. wheelbase. And surprisingly, Bingley welcomes the day they arrive because he says it will give way to a much larger market.
"The sooner the better," he says. "Because when one of the big four starts producing a true high-speed tractor and not a hybrid, then that does us a whole lot of good. No longer are we a relatively small company trying to persuade a very large group of farmers that this is the right way to go."
As tractors get into higher operating speeds, their use may shift from being simply a powered drawbar into a specialty-use vehicle. "We are ripe for a whole lot of things," says Jay Agness, chairman of the ag tractors committee of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and a John Deere engineer.
For example, as tractors are made into higher-speed units, Agness believes their ability to carry things will become very important. Because a tractor is heavier than a pickup truck, it would be able to haul a larger payload with the right modifications. "Our difficulty now is that if you put the load on a front-end loader, it impairs visibility," he says. Instead, Agness envisions a fifth wheel or trailer being added to the tractor to carry objects and implements that are too large to transport on their own.
AGCO recently unveiled a tractor at the Agritechnica show in Europe that it plans on taking to higher speeds. The concept machine, called Variotrac, features a slightly forward-mounted cab and a platform in the back on which a spray tank or other attachment could be mounted.
"You could use the tractor for spray applications as well as for a farm tractor," says Dexter Schaible, vice president of engineering and product development worldwide at AGCO. "I think that is one of the areas we might see the tractorchange as the speeds go faster." It will be at least three to five years before AGCO will introduce something like it in the U.S.
Schaible and other company representatives doubt that the overall look of the tractor will change dramatically as we get to those higher speeds. "It will still be a basic farm tractor as know it today - big wheels in the back and smaller wheels in front," Schaible says.
Most experts also doubt speeds will go much beyond 40 mph. Agness, however, disagrees. "I don't see any limit," he says. "Once you conquer 40 mph, there will be someone who wants to go 45 and then 50 and then 70."


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The mega-donor glass ceiling
The top female donor in the 2012 election was Miriam Adelson.
She gave about $46 million, mostly to Republican committees and super PACs, which was more than twice as much as the next top 15 women donors — combined. Her husband, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, donated $50 million.
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But Miriam Adelson, a physician and drug addiction expert, wasn't the one getting attention for hanging out with Mitt Romney in Jerusalem, actively speaking out against Obama administration policies or being courted by politicians.
Women are breaking barriers in all parts of the political world. But when it comes to campaign contributions, there's barely a crack in the glass ceiling.
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The reasons vary: a relative lack of cash, distaste in the process and a decision to donate money elsewhere were among the most common explanations given to POLITICO.
But the outcome is clear. In a universe in which megadonors rule and increasingly are able to impact a primary or general election all by themselves, women aren't always at the table in the same way as men. And that has an impact on what gets discussed on the campaign trail or rises to the top of the agenda in Congress, donors and political operatives said.
Instead, it's wealthy men such as Charles and David Koch, Jeffrey Katzenberg or Foster Friess who have the clout. They're the ones reporters chase down or appear on cable TV ( sometimes to the ultimate detriment of their candidate) and whose ideas can drive the national conversation.
"It would be naive to say that political giving doesn't influence what gets discussed and what gets talked about," said Siobhan "Sam" Bennett, president and CEO of the Women's Campaign Fund and a onetime Democratic congressional candidate.
Democratic megadonor and Houston trial lawyer Amber Mostyn, who gave $1.3 million to federal candidates and super PACs in the 2012 election and thousands more to state-level candidates in Texas, said the lack of women donors "absolutely" affects policy.
"It's like picking a football team and getting them to kick a field goal the other way," said Mostyn, who serves as the chairwoman of Annie's List — which supports Democratic women candidates in Texas — and founding member of the finance council for the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Ready for Hillary.
Mostyn, whose husband, Steve, is also a trial lawyer and top donor , said she doesn't mind staying under the radar, but her husband did receive much more attention for their donations in 2012.
"I don't feel slighted. People who work with us know Steve and I are both equally involved. But when the attention is concerned, it's hard for me because if we make a donation even if it's in my name, the articles will say Steve gave or the Mostyns together gave."
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Dr. Adelson was not immediately available to comment for this story.
Although some women wrote large checks for the first time in 2012, and many more gave on the grass-roots level, they still lagged far behind male donors at all levels.
Of the top 100 overall donors, 11 were women — four Republicans and seven Democrats — and they contributed about 17 percent of the total amount given by those 100 donors, according to a POLITICO review of Federal Election Commission reports and data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
And the discrepancy continues down the line. Of the top 31,000 donors — whose contributions totaled $12,950 or more — women accounted for 28 percent of the donors, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
The numbers are based on contributions to campaigns, committees and super PACs, and do not include contributions to 501(c)(4) nonprofits such as Americans for Prosperity that are not required to disclose donors.
Although only seven of the 400 richest self-made people in the United States are women, according to Forbes, and women hold far fewer high-level corporate jobs and board seats, donations from women to political causes, parties and candidates has lagged behind men even when controlling for income.
It's not all about money, top donors and fundraisers say. It's about opportunity and the political structure.
"The reason women don't give to politics is because they're lacking the mentorship and the support that men receive," said Susie Tomkins Buell, a Democratic megadonor associated with Democracy Alliance — an exclusive group of top liberal donors.
"But once they get invited in, they feel very empowered by the act," she added. "My pitch to women is usually getting them to understand, 'What do you care about and what are you doing to protect it?'"


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Moderate leaders warn that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may turn from a national conflict into a religious one. Right-wing leaders claim it has been a religious conflict from the start. Both approaches have been applied to the Temple Mount crisis, and both are affected by a totalist perception of the understanding of the religious imperative.
The concept of "settler colonialism" has been applied with almost unique vehemence against Israel. But the fact that Jews are the indigenous population of the Southern Levant can be proved with ease. In contrast, historical and genealogical evidence shows Palestinians descend primarily from three primary groups: Muslim invaders, Arab immigrants, and local converts to Islam. The Muslim conquest of Byzantine Palestine in the 7th century CE is a textbook example of settler-colonialism, as is subsequent immigration, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries under the Ottoman and British Empires. The application of the concept to Jews and Zionism by Palestinians is both ironic and unhelpful.
North Korea's nuclearization has implications for Israel's nuclear deterrence posture. There are several plausible means by which a nuclear conflict could arise in the Middle East. It may be time to consider a phase-out of Israel's "deliberate nuclear ambiguity" and to focus Israeli planning around evaluations of enemy rationality.
Former PM Ehud Barak's arguments in favor of withdrawal from Judea and Samaria undercut Israel's security and are a departure from the Oslo Accords' security vision. Israel would be wise to present President Trump with actual facts on this issue.
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The 2012 presidential election is years away, but there is already a growing crop of Republicans who are toying with the idea of seeking the GOP's presidential nomination.
The first test will come April 8-11 when the Southern Republican Leadership Conference will hold a widely attended cattle call in New Orleans, which several potential GOP presidential candidates are expected to attend.
ABC News spoke with strategists, Republican Party officials and conservative leaders to narrow down the list of GOP candidates who seem the most committed to taking back the White House.
Here's a look at a dozen Republicans whose names have emerged as possible contenders to take on President Obama in 2012. In the end, not all of these Republicans will run. But as of today, they seem like the 12 best bets to get into the race.
One Republican not on the list? Scott Brown. The newly elected senator from Massachusetts is the conservative darling at the moment. Insiders say, however, that his support for abortion rights and the overlap between his political team and that of Mitt Romney will keep him out of the 2012 race.
Mitt RomneyPro: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is widely seen by political insiders as the frontrunner for the GOPs 2012 presidential nomination. His strengths include being seen as "the next guy up" in a party with a tradition of rewarding second-time candidates (think Nixon in 1968, Reagan in 1980, Bush I in 1988, Dole in 1996, McCain in 2008). Other assets include his personal wealth; his efficient staff; his fire-in-the-belly; his work on behalf of Republican candidates around the country; and his business background. Like many aspiring presidential candidates who have come before him, he has written a new book, "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness," which is set to be released March 2.
Con: Romney, who dropped his support for abortion rights as he got closer to his 2008 presidential run, faces lingering questions about his authenticity. There also remain certain evangelical Christians who are not sure if a Mormon qualifies as a Christian. Romney showed in 2008 that he can endure the rigors of a presidential campaign. His previous run, however, also makes him something less than a fresh face.
Sarah PalinPro: The former Alaska governor is the No. 1 star in the GOP. No other Republican is capable of attracting the same kinds of crowds and media attention that she can. Her recently published memoir, "Going Rogue," sold like hotcakes. Since stepping down as governor of Alaska, Palin has shown that she can get more attention with a post on her Facebook page than her rivals can get from giving a major policy address. As a woman who decided to go forward with her pregnancy even after she learned that her son, Trig, would have Down syndrome, Palin has a strong following in both the special needs and pro-life communities.
Con: The downside with Palin is that her run for vice president in 2008 left many voters with the impression that she lacks the intellectual firepower to be president. According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in November, three out of five Americans think Palin is not qualified to be president. Although her resignation as governor of Alaska freed her up to pursue one of the most widely publicized book tours of all time, the resignation fed an image of her as highly volatile -- not necessarily a quality one would look for in a potential commander-in-chief. Palin told Oprah Winfrey on Jan. 22 that her gig as a Fox News contributor does not preclude her from running for president in 2012. Some Republican leaders say, however, that she is more interested in enriching herself than in building the party. Other Republican officials note that the fascination with her is akin to the fascination with celebrities and that it would not necessarily translate into political support once the nominating season begins. Finally, she has not put together the kind of staff typically required to run a successful national campaign.
Tim PawlentyPro: The Minnesota governor is packaging himself as a conservative who managed to win and govern in a state which has produced such well-known liberals as Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone and Al Franken. "If I can do it in Minnesota, we can do it elsewhere," he likes to say. Pawlenty, who has talked about the GOP as being "the Party of Sam's Club," is the personable son of a truck driver who is good at portraying the GOP as the party which delivers a better value than the Democrats. Pawlenty was as active as anyone in 2009. He has hired a large and experienced staff and he is not seeking re-election this year so that he can campaign full-time for president if he makes the final decision to move forward with a White House run.
Con: Pawlenty's weakness is that he does not enjoy Romney's personal wealth and he is overshadowed by Palin's star power. He also came under scrutiny last year when Dan Balz of the Washington Post characterized his moves to the right as being "Romneyesque."
John ThunePro: If the South Dakota senator decides to jump into the presidential race, he will compete with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to be seen as the leading mainstream alternative to Romney. Thune's strengths include his telegenic looks, sunny demeanor and conservative record. Although South Dakota does not provide him with a large home-state fundraising base, Thune developed a 100,000-person fundraising list by knocking off longtime Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., in 2004. While Thune has avoided the high-profile political travel of Romney and Pawlenty, look for him to start traveling the country on behalf of Republican Senate candidates once South Dakota's March 30 filing deadline passes and he does not draw a significant challenger. Given the geographic location of South Dakota, some of Thune's television ads for the Senate have aired in the western part of Iowa, giving him early exposure in the state, which holds the first presidential nominating contest.
Con: As a sitting United States senator, Thune is not able to tell a story of having achieved results outside of Washington the way the former governors in the field can do. He also worked for a short period of time as a lobbyist. And it's still not clear that Thune has the same fire in the belly as Romney or Pawlenty.
Haley BarbourPro: The Mississippi governor is widely seen as the savviest Republican strategist in elected office. As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Barbour led his party to wins in 2009 in Virginia and New Jersey. Barbour, who served as political director in the Reagan White House, is a former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). During his tenure at the RNC, Republicans took control of both houses of Congress. As governor of Mississippi, Barbour earned high marks in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. If Barbour enters the race, his folksy and homespun style could prove popular in the early nominating states.
Con: Barbour's biggest weakness may be cosmetic. He himself has joked with friends that a "fat boy from the South is not going to get elected president in 2012." Another strike against him is his background as a Washington lobbyist at a time when the public seems to be in revolt against "business as usual."
Mike PencePro: The House Republican Conference Chairman from Indiana is currently trying to decide between running for the Senate against Democrat Evan Bayh in 2010 or running for president in 2012. While Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts may suggest that this is a good year to run for the Senate, one advantage to running for president is that Pence would not have to give up his House seat if he were unsuccessful in the GOP primaries. The congressman's core strength is that he is a full-spectrum conservative. Pence, who opens meetings with a prayer, connects well with conservative Christians. At the same time, he differs from Mike Huckabee in that he is not saddled with a history of having gone along with higher taxes. As a former radio broadcaster, Pence also is adept at communicating in soundbites.
Con: As a sitting House member, Pence suffers from a political stature problem. The last House member to go directly to the White House was President James Garfield.
Newt GingrichPro: The former House Speaker is often described as the best "ideas guy" in the Republican Party. Through his political advocacy group, American Solutions, he has advanced what he calls "tripartisan" solutions to creating jobs, fostering energy independence and reforming education. Gingrich, who recently converted to Catholicism because of his wife, stays in the public limelight as a Fox News contributor and prolific author.
Con: While Gingrich covets the increased attention that comes from being covered as a potential presidential candidate, most Republican insiders think he will ultimately pass on a 2012 race. Although he is revered by conservative activists for leading the GOP to its first House majority in 40 years, many Republicans remember his tenure as Speaker as a stormy one. There is also a concern that Gingrich's personal and political baggage from the 1990s would impede the GOP's ability to make the election a referendum on the Obama administration.
Mike HuckabeePro: The former Arkansas governor is one of the most gifted talkers in American politics. Witty and soundbite-friendly, he stunned the political world in 2008 by beating the much-better funded Romney in the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee, a former pastor, has a strong following among evangelical Christians who appreciate his steadfast support for the sanctity of life. He was an early and consistent opponent of the Wall Street bailout and has a politician's knack for remembering names and ingratiating himself with those with whom he comes into contact. Huckabee continues to do better than any other Republican presidential candidate in hypothetical match-ups with President Obama, according to recent public opinion polls.
Con: Despite his incredible win in the Iowa caucuses in 2008, Huckabee never put together the kind of national staff or national fundraising network which would have allowed him to overcome Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for the nomination. One reason why Huckabee did not advance further than he did was that he was targeted by the anti-tax Club for Growth which accuses him of going along with higher taxes in Arkansas during his tenure as governor. Huckabee's stock was hurt last year when word spread that he granted clemency to notorious cop-killer Maurice Clemmons. Although the clemency has not yet hurt his standing with the public, it will probably become the subject of attack ads if he becomes a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. It's not clear whether Huckabee, who has put on weight since 2008, still has the same drive that he had last time.
Ron PaulPro:: The representative from Texas is weighing another run for president if the country's economy does not improve before the start of the nominating process. Paul, an OB/GYN doctor by trade, has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He surprised political observers in 2008 by outraising several of his better-known GOP rivals. Paul's legion of devoted followers were drawn to his record of backing low taxes, free markets, sound money and a noninterventionist foreign policy.
Con: If Paul runs for president again in 2012, he will be forced to compete with former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson for the support of Libertarian-leaning Republicans. Paul would also be the oldest candidate in the field: He will be 77 by the next presidential election.
Gary JohnsonPro: The former New Mexico governor is positioned to build on what Rep. Ron Paul tapped into in 2008. Johnson believes in less spending, lower taxes, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. As governor, he vetoed 750 bills, a total that at the time was more than that of the other 49 governors in the U.S. combined. An early opponent of the Iraq War, Johnson has been vocal about his opposition to President Obama's surge of troops in Afghanistan, saying it will cost more American lives and not solve the terrorist threat.
Con: Johnson's outspoken support for legalizing marijuana may help him raise money among advocates of that position but it could also limit his support among Republicans who might otherwise be drawn to other parts of his small-government agenda. Johnson may also be hampered in the GOP primaries by his support for abortion rights.
Rick SantorumPro: The former senator from Pennsylvania recently told ABC News' "Top Line" Webcast that he is "absolutely taking a look" at running for president in 2012. A staunch foe of abortion rights, same-sex marriage and illegal immigration, Santorum could appeal to some of the socially conservative voters who participate in the Iowa caucuses. As part of his exploration of a presidential run, Santorum has traveled to Iowa and South Carolina.
Con: Santorum's biggest weakness is that it is hard to make the case that you should be your party's presidential nominee when you were defeated in your most recent bid for re-election to statewide office. And yet that is exactly the situation that Santorum finds himself in: The Pennsylvania Republican was defeated in 2006 by Democrat Bob Casey. Santorum has also been criticized by Mark McKinnon, a former Bush and McCain adviser, as being "dangerous" for the future of a GOP that needs to attract Latinos.
George PatakiPro: The former New York governor has not received much attention, but there are several signs that his is interested in making a run for the White House in 2012. Top GOP donors have asked him to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., but he has told them that he does not want to enter the race because he has his eye on the White House. Pataki dipped his toes in the presidential waters by traveling to Iowa last year, the state that hosts the first presidential nominating contest. In February, he is planning to visit New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary.
Con: Pataki actively flirted with running for president in 2008 but ultimately passed on the race. Many of the questions which were raised then are still relevant now: How does a Republican who supports abortion rights and gun control win the nomination of a party that has become increasingly conservative?
ABC News' Matt Loffman contributed to this report.


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The CHC-operated Super Puma AS332L2 crash during the early evening of Friday, Aug. 23, off the Shetland Islands with four fatalities has once again generated serious concerns regarding the safety of the Super Puma family of helicopters operating in the oil and gas sector in the North Sea.
The four fatalities have been named: Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland; Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin; Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness; and George Allison, 57, from Winchester.
Another fatal accident involving an AS332L2 occurred on April 1, 2009 at 12:55 pm, when a Bond-operated AS332L2 Super Puma (G-REDL) crashed into the sea [from around 2,000 feet] approximately 11 miles north-east of Peterhead, Scotland. Two crewmen and 14 passengers died in the accident with no survivors.
Last year, the EC225, the other member of the Super Puma family, was at the center of two ditching incidents in the North Sea. A report issued by the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) stated that an EC225 LP Super Puma (G-REDW) ditching 20 nm east of Aberdeen on May 10, 2012. This was followed just over five months later on Oct. 22, 2012 by an EC225 LP Super Puma (G-CHCN) [operated by CHC Scotia] ditching 32 nm southwest of Sumburgh, Shetland Islands. Soon after all EC225 operations were suspended.
The AAIB report stated: "On both G-REDW and G-CHCN the bevel gear vertical shaft fractured, leading to associated warnings of loss of main gearbox (MGB) oil pressure on the central warning panel (CWP)." Both aircraft had to immediately ditch. In each case, the 14 and 19 passengers and crew, respectively, were rescued.
Offshore Eurocopter EC225 in CHC livery. The manufacturer cautions against linking Friday's AS332 accident to the EC225 ditchings in 2012. The two variants make up the Super Puma family. Photo courtesy of Eurocopter
Following the 2009 crash of the AS332L2, the AAIB Special Bulletin 5/2009, published on July 16, 2009, included the following Safety Recommendation (2009-075): "It is recommended that the European Aviation Safety Agency, in conjunction with Eurocopter, urgently review the design, operational life and inspection processes of the planet gears used in the epicyclic module of the main rotor gearbox installed in AS332L2 and EC225LP helicopters, with the intention of minimizing the potential of any cracks progressing to failure during the service life of the gears."
On July 22 this year, Eurocopter announced: "A return to flight of EC225 helicopters suspended from service will begin this month following approval of the prevention and detection measures developed by Eurocopter for the twin-engine rotorcraft throughout its range of missions." It went on to report that "the EASA regulatory authority [had] validated on July 10 these safety measures, which were developed by Eurocopter after an extensive investigation into the main gearbox shaft failures of two EC225 helicopters in the North Sea in 2012. EASA's validation was followed by the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority's lifting of operational restrictions on the same day, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Norway taking the step on July 19. This allows the full return to service of EC225s worldwide."
The belief that any problem with the EC225 had been solved was confirmed through a statement by the newly appointed president and CEO of Eurocopter, Guillaume Faury: "I am convinced that the designed and approved measures are the right ones, allowing a safe return to service of the entire fleet... Eurocopter's teams remain entirely mobilized to support our customers in the return to service and full availability of their EC225s."
Eurocopter Group Vice President Corporate Communications, Cécile Vion-Lanctuit, issued the following statement, which is repeated in full:
"An AS332 L2, operated by CHC Scotia, was involved in an accident on Friday, Aug. 23 at 6:20 pm, approximately two miles west of Sumburgh off Shetland.
Guillaume Faury, Eurocopter's CEO, said: 'We all at Eurocopter are deeply saddened by this accident. This is a tragedy for all of us. We express our deepest sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost their lives. Our thoughts are with all those affected, including the workforce in the North Sea. We also wish to acknowledge all those persons involved in the search and rescue operations. Their prompt and professional action saved many lives and for that we are sincerely thankful.'
Members of Eurocopter's senior management have arrived in Aberdeen to support in this very difficult time.
At present, limited technical information is available regarding the cause of the accident. Eurocopter's experts are in Aberdeen working closely with the investigation authorities to determine the cause."
Step Change In Safety's Helicopter Safety Steering Group (HSSG) met on August 24 to discuss the accident and express their condolences, releasing the following statement:
"At present there are no confirmed facts as to the causes of this accident. As a result, the HSSG, supported by the Step Change in Safety Leadership Team, has taken the precautionary measure of recommending temporary suspension of all Super Puma commercial passenger flights to and from offshore oil and gas installations within the UK. This does not apply to the use of search and rescue helicopters for emergency response.
The Super Puma series of helicopters includes the following variants: AS332 L, L1, L2 and EC225. There are significant technical differences between these variants; however, until more is understood on cause of the accident, this cautious approach is appropriate.
HSSG will closely monitor the situation and will only recommend resumption of flights by one or more of the Super Puma variants when it considers that sufficient factual information is available to support the decision."
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
A two-sentence post on....the end of the season
But was it just me, or was that one of the coldest, most unemotional post-game celebrations - both on the field and in the stands - in the history of the World Series?
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Stadium seemed pretty loud to me... sorry. Even though it was definitely 75% full of people that became yankees fans in the last 10 years
- November 5, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Fucking A.J. Burnett
- November 5, 2009 at 12:32 AM
- REAN said...
I went to bed early as to avoid seeing the celebration entirely.
Missed the whole ninth!
Going to bed during the last game of the WS and waking up with the season over makes all of the 2009 clusterfuck seem like a bad dream.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- Mike D said...
It definitely had a weird vibe to it. The Matsui interview was TV gold, though.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- Peter D said...
Not to worry Jays fans, the team is now focused on only the best talent available:
According to Jordan Bastain of MLB.com, the Blue Jays will watch John Halama pitch in the Dominican Republic on Thursday.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- eyebleaf said...
To all the Yankees fans: Congratu$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
And Halama? Seriously? Fuck off, Alex Anthopoulos.
- November 5, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- The Ack said...
I don't know, it was just weird to me. Big rush & excitement of the final out.....then not much.
Of course, I'm jaded as fuck, so there you go.
- November 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- SP said...
- November 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- SP said...
Yeah, that celebration was about as genuine as something Kobe Bryant would do.
- November 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Well, now that they have won the World Series, the Yankees will relax for another nine years, and not blow out their budget to bring in Jason Bay and Matt Holliday.
Right? Hello?
(Sorry...I've forgotten how to be clever over the past week.)
- November 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Darren Priest said...
The sad part (for Jays fans anyways) is they could bring in both those guys and not be blowing the budget.
They will need a couple of pitchers though. Unless Wang finds his old form.
- November 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- QJays said...
Like REAN, I woke up to find the baseball season had ended. Sucks! I could have stayed up for it all tonight.
- November 5, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Perhaps the Yankees will take a flier on JOHN FUCKING HALAMA.
- November 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Ian H. said...
Not just you Ack, I thought it was damn quiet at Yankee Stadium. Even during the celebration, it was cold cold cold. No emotion whatsoever, other than on the field.
- November 5, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- Wiffleballs said...
Yeah, I'm with you guys. The players seemed like they were bored, many having been through it before. You know there's something seriously wrong with MLB when the mystique of winning the World Series is lost. I hope Selig realizes that he runs the risk of alienating a lot of baseball fans who witnessed that "celebration" last night unless he does something substantial to level the playing field in a meaningful way. Either that or we have to wait for a different commissioner.
- November 5, 2009 at 7:25 PM
I love how they all ran to embrace ARod after he won his first ring. Uh wait... was it just me or did Jeter look every direction but to his right?
- November 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
The overwhelming feeling I got from Arod was relief.
- November 7, 2009 at 12:48 AM


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This is the time of year when I start looking towards the end of the semester and the all-too-brief period I'll have to relax and do a bit of reading for fun. (And yes, I do realize that I am blessed to have that time, which people in many other professions do not have — but I want more! More, I tell you!) So here are some books I want to read or re-read this coming holiday season:
- Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
- Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (re-read)
- Brian Boyd's two-volume biography of Vladimir Nabokov
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (re-read)
- Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom
- poems of C. P. Cavafy
I may change my mind and not read any of those — I believe in reading at Whim — but right now those are the ones calling my name.
By the way, I recently read Roger Scruton's How to Think Seriously About the Planet and will present some thoughts in the coming days. At least I hope to.


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Towards the end of April I had a birthday, which stretched over three weekends, one in Cambridge, one in Chester-le-Street and one in Hove. The Actual Weekend started with a trip to the V&A Quilts exhibition (highly recommended) with Yvonne (ditto, of course!), a showing of The Ghost and a visit to GBK with Sue, and finally some knitting over an extremely nice Sunday lunch in the pub, with Cath and Avril (both knitting lace, you can tell by the expressions...)
Lorna (with mystery test knit which I'd just dyed and blocked the day before...)
Rosie was also there - you can see her elbow in the top picture but the photo I took of her was so comically, heroically bad that it seemed safest not to include it...
Many of the knitting-related gifts, oddly enough, were purple...
We had Dissolution, and the election, and then a very strange and extremely busy post-election period.
Summer has wondered, repeatedly, whether to arrive. Yesterday morning was absolutely beautiful; last weekend was really cold and miserable; and today can't work out what it wants to do, but Test Match Special is on the radio, cricket is happening and it's pretty exciting this afternoon as England demolishes Bangladesh's batsmen (could do with less Geoffrey Boycott and more everyone else, but you can't have everything - at least Blowers, Aggers and Tuffers are all on...) I've potted up my chili seedlings today and put them in the greenhouse as hostages to fortune, so I can get rid of the heated propagator I've been falling over in the kitchen for the last couple of months.
I've had three shifts at the village library, which is where I started this post; the morning was notable for a lovely ten-year-old boy who's only had his library card for a week; when I told him he could have up to 12 items out he beamed so widely you'd swear it was Christmas morning...
Knitting has been done. The main project I worked on between then and now was a wedding blanket for Katie and Neil, assembling squares produced by members of the Archers board on Ravely, from all over the UK and from Canada - Katie blogs about it here and it's great to know she loved it. I now have absolutely no fear of picking up stitches from edges, having picked up 24 from each edge of each square! It was lovely seeing everyone's squares and good wishes, and people were wickedly inventive with the Archers-themed blocks.
I also knitted a shawl (as yet unblocked) and a cardigan (can't decide whether I like it or not now it's finished!) which I'll blog another time.
Not much progress on the spinning, but thanks very much to Isabella for her comment on my April 12 post, which has narrowly averted disaster; in future I'll either dye the fleece or the finished yarn rather than trying to dye singles before plying. I really need to sit down and read the spinning book I bought last year to get these technical details right!


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Now, with AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 3.1, Cisco continues to help enterprise customers with their business transformation needs (ie-BYOD) securely. As long as 'consumerization of IT' continues to gain inroads into the corporate network, IT professionals will seek investments in tools that will help support their attitude change from mandate to choice. Having a mobile DNA has been a significant attribute for Cisco as AnyConnect continues to support one of the broadest OS (desktop and mobile) and browser portfolios in the market today.
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About Christopher Bingham
Once the civil trial is over, then the cops and doctors should be charged with sexual assault. The doc should be barred from practicing medicine in any capacity and the cops should not be able to get a job in any kind of future security work, ever.
That should all happen after they have served prison sentences that take them into old age.
Of course the city should pay - they hired the rapists. But the city should sue the rapists for the settlement plus attorney fees.
Paul - she's out there doing the hard work herself. Metaxa comes along and dumps huge dollars into a beer campaign, buys radio time etc. All the "hard work" you want doesn't compete with that.
I definitely feel Erin's pain, but I think she's got a long road to travel to prove real infringement. It's certainly a rip off in spirit and the arrangements are shamefully close, but most of the similarities are in the set of very common tools: straight eight piano, the vocal doubling, the "girl growl" thing that so many singers are using these days it's really hard to tell them apart.
But in terms of exact melody, she might be out on a limb. That's one of the problems with a seven note scale - SO much has already been done.
For what it's worth, I think her poem is the better piece of work, and it really does sound like the guys who wrote it used it as a template and that's a real shame.
But, well, BOTH pieces are not exactly original sounding.
If it was an argument between two writers, I'd be a lot more inclined to say figure out a way to profit from the controversy and let the lawyers go make money off someone else. But it APPEARS (and I'm working from what I read so I may be wrong) that the whole thing was financed by a billion dollar multinational company specifically to sell beer.
So IF she has a case (and I think it's dubious, but I haven't transcribed the notes for a match) this would be the kind of thing that supports an argument for copyright. She's out there humpin' the boonies playing her tunes and some mega corp comes along and uses her tune for a template, sells a bunch of beer and makes a ton of money for a "song stylist." She'd be about 2/3rds of the way through her copyright, if we stuck to the original 14 year plan. It's supposed to give authors enough time to establish their works in the marketplace.
What I don't get, is the animosity toward Erin. She may or may not have a case, but it's similar enough to rightly feel like she did the work. She's working in the system we have, not the system many of us want. I wish her the best.
I moved my nine domain names last night to Namecheap at about 7pm, when the number was at around $21k. This morning, after doing the last confirmation link, the number was over $61k.
Moving to namecheap was really easy, their registration process and website is FAR easier to use, without the aggressive and slightly confusing ad gauntlet you have to go through with Godaddy and by purchasing last night, I donated $9 to EFF. Namecheap also adds your remaining time with Godaddy to your renewal time - so there is no $$ loss.
At around $10 a name, it appears pretty clear that at the very least, the boycott cost Godaddy around $600k in one day. Maybe that's chicken feed, but it would get my attention. Because it's not just this year - it's every year thereafter. It's a small pain to move my registration, but it's a pain, so unless you do something to really make me want to move, I'll probably stick with Namecheap for years to come.
If they are orphan works, how does the Authors Guild even have standing? Isn't the whole point that no one can find the authors? There is no one to represent!
If the actually FIND the authors, then they are no longer orphan works.
While I haven't had any problem setting my homepage, if you mis-type a URL, Comcast hijacks your browser with suggestions and you can't use the back button to go to your old search.
The old Ma bell saying applies here too: Comcast, we don't care, we don;t have to."
Ok, never mind. I answered my own question.
So the thought just occurred to me: If Righthaven can't sue alleged infringers because one can not sell only the right to sue, then how can the RIAA sue alleged infringers?
Surely the RIAA doesn't own the copyrights. Is the RIAA just the enforcement arm of the labels and not actually party to the lawsuits?
It's not about secrecy, it's about winning the case. The IRS has a policy of not recognizing precedent. Sure they've lost thousands of cases over specific clauses in the tax code, but if you're audited, they'll say "prove it in court."
There is no "head in the sand" here - they are entirely aware they're using the law to obfuscate facts and deny the accused their basic rights.
One thing that came to mind when Phillip Pullman's "Golden Compass" did so poorly at the box office. It cane out at roughly the same time as the Narnia Series which did really well, and I realized that Pullman didn't have 30 years to imprint generation or two of kids.
Same thing with Rand. A lot of people will think "Atlas Shrugged" is garbage, but enough have been imprinted that it will do well. The beloved books of our childhood do well - even the awful ones.
I was taught the old way, but figured out the "guesstimate" way for multiplying things in my head.
The old way is much faster for large numbers - and also has a degree of certainty as you go along that is kind of comforting to me. Maybe it's ingrained prejudice, but my thinking is that arithmetic is about taking the guess work out of the basics.
Obviously both methods work, and of course explaining *why* something works has always been better for me. I just learned that rote has a purpose - get the scales down and the rest of the music theory will be *much* easier....
115,000 titles released in 2008. Does every one of those who "deserve" to make a living?
I just had a really validating weekend: we had a cd release party where we said "No one goes home without a cd - pay what you want. 25 cds went out the door and we averaged exactly we'd normally charge, $15 each. But the folks that paid less, were just as excited (maybe more) than the folks who paid $25.
On top of that, a fan who has been wanted to donate for years, received an inheritance and donated $2000.00 and said "Make more art and music!"
You have to give them a reason to buy.
90% of GDP? Riiiiight. More than health care? More than the military industrial complex?
Puleaze. A few years ago when the majors still owned the market, the music industry was a $14 billion a year industry.
...because they'll actually get paid. Unless things have changed a whole lot since I was interested in affiliating with any of the PROs, the whole scam is based on exptrapolating plays based on a small sample ofmajor market commercial airplay. Which means if I get a few plays in Tacoma Lady Gaga gets my nickel. When you multiply that by 12,000 stations it starts to add up.
But wait, how will this "non-profit" make it's "administrative" costs if it can't shake down restaurants? hmmmm
That's the heart of the problem. We have to decide that a few years of empty but entirely dependable busses and trains / subways will be worth the investment, before we can really get people out of their cars.
Here in Seattle, which has a pretty decent system, it can still take you two to three hours to get from one part of town to another by bus, compared to a 15 minute trip by car, if you want to get there at 7pm on a Saturday night.
If you want to commute to downtown and back at rush hour, no problem. The rest of the time a couple of hills over and it's a nightmare.
The no free parking people want to penalize car users before we have solutions to moving people from one place to another. All it does is breed resentment for people that are trapped by the infrastructure. Until public transportation approximates the functionality of single vehicles, we're not going to get people out their cars.
Without payola, the DJs at the stations would play what they think is good, or what their audience are *actually* demanding - which can also be new music if it's good enough (and to be honest probably will be).
The DJs don't make those decisions. The Music Director and the Program Director decide. So the MDs might do that and sometimes actually do. The only place DJs have any say is on specialty programs which usually happen on the Sunday morning folk ghetto.
New music is added on Tuesdays and commercial stations add three new tunes a week. If they get serious response, and the records are selling, they end up in rotation. The labels pay to get them on the air and keep them there long enough to gauge the response, but that's about all they can do. The radio stations ride the line between the "comfort food" (wonderful metaphor!) of proved hits and enough new stuff to keep the playlist relevant.
All of this is happening in the context of mass market surveys. You get a call from a radio marketer and he plays you six seconds of a song. You rate it 1-5 and they throw out the ones and the fives, knowing that if people really like a tune, a significant proportion of the audience will also hate it. Programming for mediocrity.
The entire purpose of the music on radio stations is to get you to listen through the advertisements.
One of the reasons that ASCAP and other PROs are bad for the vast majority of composers is that they fight that kind of record keeping - the actual logging of actual songs performed - so they can funnel the collections to their major market composers.
They've been doing this kind of logging of plays at clubs in Europe all along. The people who actually write the songs are the people who get paid - not just the special designees of the major labels.
The PROs create more problems for upcoming artists by shaking down small venues.
"The idea goes like this: Impose a blanket license on copyright owners, making it legal for all their musical works to be shared online. In return, ISP customers would pay a monthly licensing fee. Music rights organizations like ASCAP and BMI would collect the licensing fees and distribute royalty payments to performers and songwriters."
Sorry, but that is simply a scam to funnel money to record labels again. Their payment models and collection methods more closely resemble extortion for mom and pop coffeehouses than anything equitable. Again they want to base the payment scheme on extrapolating the number of song plays from small samples - and they get to choose the sample pool.
The bottom line is that sharing is not stealing. If I make a copy of your shovel I am not stealing your shovel - I'm creating another bit of chattel. If I build a few more shovels, based on your design, and sell them, I might be infringing on your market. If I give them away and say "keep it if you like it" the person has the choice to keep it or pass it on - which *might* have cost you a sale or it might not have.
We've moved into a different business model of how music is heard and sold. In the old days, the only music that made it out to the market was controlled by a handful of gatekeepers - and they made the money. Now I can record a tune in my office and it can available to the entire world in minutes. It would be grossly unfair to anyone who creates to use the law to support the gatekeepers again instead of the creators.
You can try to force people to buy every copy of your music, but good luck getting heard. File sharing is the new radio play. I'm selling more now than I ever did in the old days.


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After sunset at Bonita Cove, Point Bonita Lighthouse, the Marin Headlands, just northwest of the Golden Gate.
Seaplane unloads passengers in the Maldives
Seaplane at doc of shore of Kuramathi Island, Maldives
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February in Austin. Kids jumping off the the Lamar St. Bridge.
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West Flanders Brewing Co. was not supposed to have its beginnings as a brewpub in downtown Boulder.
Officials initially envisioned establishing a Louisville-based brewing facility nestled in a pastoral setting that would lend to a "farm-to-table" tap house.
Thanks to the "fantastic surprise" of BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse relocating to Twenty Ninth Street from 1125 Pearl St., West Flanders' founders changed course and set up shop last year at the ready-to-brew restaurant along the Pearl Street Mall.
The near-term intent may have changed, but the original dream remained.
Nearly six months after opening the downtown Boulder brewpub, West Flanders officials said they are finalizing a site review application to build a brewery and tap house at 1303 Empire Road in Louisville.
The nearly 4-acre parcel on the northeast of Colo. 42 and Empire Road is zoned for industrial purposes but also has an adjoining agricultural area that could be prime for growing hops and other ingredients, said Brian Lutz, brewmaster and co-founder of West Flanders.
"It just offers a really unique spot to do a farmhouse-type of brewery," he said.
Under the proposed plans for the operation, West Flanders would be able to produce, bottle and can as much as 10,000 barrels of beer — 10 times its current capacity — on a yearly basis, Lutz said.
Lutz also envisions building a small tap house where patrons could drink their beers next to a hop farm.
West Flanders initially would lease the property, which currently is occupied by Louisville Glass, Lutz said, adding that officials plan to submit the site review application in the coming weeks. If all goes according to West Flanders' plans, the brewery could be operational next year.
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Lutz appeared before Louisville City Council in August of 2011 to receive direction on whether the "no-build" restriction could be modified to expanding the existing building on the property.
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This could be a very big year for Max Allan Collins' MS. TREE. ComicMix reports that a new MS. TREE novel (based on the comic book) and a TV pilot are on the way.
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Obviously, things have been held up a bit by the WGA strike, but Collins took his original treatment and turned it into Deadly Beloved, a paperback novel published last December by Hard Case Crime. Cooler still (since Collins is the author of about a million mystery novels, including the aforementioned Heller boos, and teevee/movie tie-ins, including many of the C.S.I. books) the cover was painted by Ms. Tree artist Terry Beatty.
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