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Week 12, in the books ...
The intense race for the playoffs is in full gear. Check out the latest situation in the postseason chase. More ...
... so what does that mean for the best teams in football? Well there is some shakeup in the top 10, although the first three stand pat. The Atlanta Falcons won on the road against what appears to be a quality team in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Per the norm, they made it interesting, ultimately taking a one-point win. The San Francisco 49ers looked dominant in New Orleans, but with two losses and a tie, Jim Harbaugh's troops have too many missteps to take top billing.
And then there's the Houston Texans, who, in a strange nod to Spaceballs, got a victory with the help of the Schwartz. Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz certainly won't prematurely chuck a challenge flag again.
As for the bottom of the order, this tweet says it all about how fans feel about the Kansas City Chiefs:
@harrison_nflis it safe to say the toronto argonauts deserve to join the power rankings nowâ Paul Onofrio (@impaulse76) November 27, 2012
Tell you what, though: The Oakland Raiders are doing everything possible to oust the Chiefs from the 32-hole, save starting Kyle Boller.
As for the rest of the league, let the dissension commence ...
(Note: Arrows reflect change in standings from last week's Power Rankings.)
PREVIOUS RANKINGS: Week 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1
Give the Houston Texans credit. On a short week, on the road, they hung around and ended up taking a game in which they looked to be dead on multiple occasions. They even survived their own coaching, i.e., when Kubes went all Schottenheimer on America and played for a long field goal in OT. Fail.
Gritty road win for the Atlanta Falcons in Tampa, and a particularly gritty performance from Julio Jones, who was questionable for Sunday. Nothing questionable about six catches for 147 yards and a touchdown. This team is primed for home field a la 2010 (with a different postseason result in mind, of course). At 10-1, it would take a pretty hefty fall from grace for Atlanta to not be playing January football in the Georgia Dome.
Only Jim Harbaugh would bench a quarterback with a 19-5-1 record as a starter over the last two seasons and the highest completion percentage (70.0) in 2012. Alex Smith, sit down. Enter Colin Kaepernick, who handled himself admirably in his second consecutive start and reminds this writer a lot of a good Randall Cunningham, particularly with those long strides. Of course, even Tim Rattay would've benefitted from two touchdowns turned in by the defense. Nice win.
Joe Flacco had maybe his best road game of his season, but the Baltimore Ravens only had 16 points to show for it after almost five full quarters. Baltimore did score the final 13 points of the game, though, not allowing the San Diego Chargers to get going in the second half. They also got a huge assist from Ray Rice, who saved the day in the fourth quarter. Watch here.
It was 35-0 in the second quarter when I decided to watch The Impossible, the story of a family that went through great lengths to reunite after the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. Great flick.
The Denver Broncos survived. Late in the year, playing on the road at Arrowhead, that qualifies as a successful weekend. Just ask the 2011 Green Bay Packers.
For all of you people who dropped Michael Bush in fantasy weeks ago ... me, too. In reality, the Chicago Bears are the walking wounded with health issues on both sides of the ball, starting with guard Lance Louis' season-ending knee injury. Another Lance (Briggs) is in a walking boot. Meanwhile, everyone's holding their breath on Matt Forte's ankle. Man, it feels like 2011 in Chicago.
Exhibit A of parity in the NFL: Eli Manning and the New York Giants. This is a team that hadn't played well in weeks, while Manning had been plum awful. He'd averaged 177 yards per game in his last three outings with no touchdowns and four interceptions. So what does Manning do on Sunday night? Throw three touchdown passes and dominate the Packers' defense. Last December, New York was 6-6, in a tailspin, with almost no hope for the playoffs. What did they do then? Win the Super Bowl. The chasm between the good and bad clubs is not a chasm at all, with the difference in quality often being razor thin. Don't forget: This Packers team absolutely demolished the Texans in Week 6 and brought a five-game winning streak into Sunday night. The NFL truly is week to week, but Big Blue knows what weeks to turn it on.
I don't make a habit of quoting Cris Collinsworth too often, but on Sunday's night broadcast, he quipped, "Every once in a while in the NFL, you have to burn the tape ..." Agreed, Cris. Burn it, Mike.
The Carson Palmer homecoming was special. Really special ... for Mike Zimmer's defense, which completely dominated at home. Cincinnati's former franchise quarterback entered Week 12 averaging 303.5 passing yards per game. The Bengals held him to 146.
Tough road loss after a really long road trip to Miami for the Seattle Seahawks. Here's the most important thing I took away from this game (something that bodes well for this organization's future): fourth quarter, second down, ball at their own 2, with the Seahawks nursing a 14-7 lead. Again, the football was well within the five. How many teams turn around and hand off in that situation? Not Pete Carroll. That's trust in your rookie quarterback, and it tells you all you need to know about whether or not Russell Wilson is for real.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers can't move up in the rankings, or make the playoffs, or be considered a contender until they take care of bidness at home against quality teams. The Falcons were there for the taking, and Connor Barth's 56-yard miss is not the reason Tampa couldn't finish the job. The secondary is the biggest culprit. And now the Bucs are 6-5, as opposed to being in prime position for a wild-card slot.
Prior to Sunday's Steeler debacle in Cleveland, how many times had a team turned the ball over eight times in a game over the last 10 years? Zero. Even Ben Roethlisberger can't recover five lost fumbles.
Congratulations to the Indianapolis Colts, who seem to be on a crash course for an AFC wild-card berth. An issue looming for this club -- one that its fan base surely has noticed through 11 games -- is the glaring lack of takeaways. The minus-14 turnover differential is not as big an issue against the Bills and Jags of the world, but if Indy is forced to play in Denver in the opening round of the playoffs ... You get the picture. Either way, who would've thought Indy would be 7-4, much less win seven games all season?
The Niners dealt a heavy blow to the New Orleans Saints' playoff hopes on Sunday. At 5-6, the Saints are still in the mix, but with away games against the Falcons and and Giants coming up, the road ain't gonna be easy. That said, if the secondary can compete the way it has the last couple of weeks, there's a chance. Drew Brees was uncharacteristically off on several plays vs. the 49ers and paid for it with two pick-six's that changed the game. Fat chance that happens again.
Robert Griffin III followed up Week 11's 14-for-15 performance with a 20-for-28, four-touchdown showing on Thanksgiving. Give some serious kudos to the Washington Redskins receivers, who played like Mark Duper, Mark Clayton and John Taylor wrapped in an egg roll. Pierre Garcon looked like Taylor on his long touchdown. Certainly good to have him back in the fold. Santana Moss, quality. Redskins fans, did you even recognize your wideouts out there? Usually the balls go right through their hands.
At 6-5, the Minnesota Vikings look OK on paper. But the reality is, with Green Bay (twice) and Chicago (again) coming up on the schedule, the playoffs are far-fetched. The back-to-back mulligan performances in Week 8 ( loss to the Bucs) and Week 9 ( loss to the Seahawks) are the real culprits. Remember that when folks start talking about faint playoff hopes in a week or so.
The Turkey Day defeat in Dallas was easily the worst performance by the Cowboys' defense in 2012. We finally saw a unit that missed starting inside linebacker Sean Lee and safety Barry Church. (Especially Church, whom the secondary desperately needed.) And now Bruce Carter's done for the season, as well. Still, despite all the gloom and doom surrounding this team, bear in mind that the Cowboys are only two back with five games to play. They're in serious trouble, but not done. Yet.
Terrible loss in Detroit. At 4-7, the show is over, and you could see it all over the face of Matt Stafford (who, by the way, played pretty well against arguably the best defense in the AFC).
Is it unusual for a wide receiver to complain about play calling? Hardly. Is it unusual if that receiver just got targeted 15 times and had a 100-yard game? You bet. Nonetheless, Stevie Johnson said it's time for Chan Gailey to relinquish play-calling duties. He has since backed off, but I can tell you that the Buffalo Bills fans I've spoken to feel the same way. Would love to hear your thoughts at @Harrison_NFL. Either way, Buffalo's playoff hopes were doused Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Who can figure out these Miami Dolphins? The run defense was unbelievable early in the season, then got wasted by the St. Louis Rams and Buffalo Bills, only to come back and shut down Marshawn Lynch. The wideouts couldn't make a play in last week's loss to the Bills, yet the passing game was clutch in Sunday's win. Hey, but when you need a play, call Charles Clay.
In what essentially amounted to an elimination game for the St. Louis Rams, Jeff Fisher's club came through in Arizona, sweeping the Cardinals in the process. At 4-6-1, there's not much hope. But if the Rams can pull off the upset of the 49ers at home on Sunday, they have two winnable games vs. the Vikings and at the Bills. Don't snicker. They would've ousted the Niners in Week 10 if it wasn't for an illegal-formation call in overtime. #justsayin'
How about that Brownies defensive line? Cleveland limited Dallas to 21 carries for 63 yards in Week 11. On Sunday, the Steelers only gained 49 yards on 20 attempts. The Browns are forcing teams to be one-dimensional. When the opposing quarterback is Charlie Batch, the result is usually one-sided. Win.
You have to feel for San Diego Chargers fans. Another win in the grasp, another loss on the books. I spent some time on Sunday pondering what's worse: the remake of The Thing or Charger football?
Ryan Lindley wasn't the answer Sunday. Nor was Beanie Wells. No, the elixir for a team that has gone from 4-0 to 4-7 (and looked awful ugly in the process) is an offensive line that can at least play even. Instead, the Arizona Cardinals are getting whipped at the point of the attack. The running game only averaged 3.2 yards per carry versus the Rams. And even that figure was pumped up by an Andre Roberts scamper for 13 yards, the longest run of the afternoon; that's great, but he's a wide receiver. Too often this team can't pass protect. And even when it does, it makes up for it by getting blasted in the ground game.
Closing out a football game -- that's what the Carolina Panthers needed. Not a monster fantasy game from Cam Newton. Not 20 tackles from Defensive Rookie of the Year Luke Kuechly. Not another almost. After suffering six one-score losses this year, Carolina finally closed the door in the fourth quarter on Monday night. Kicker Graham Gano tried to make it interesting by missing an extra point to keep Philly in the game. That's a great way to make friends in the locker room in your first week with the team.
Jake Locker is back in the saddle, but it didn't translate into a win. The second-year man was outplayed by Chad Henne, of all people -- and this lopsided matchup made the difference in a five-point loss. The Tennessee Titans organization has some decisions to make on personnel, but given Locker's injuries and the weak draft class, quarterback likely won't be a focus area. Offensive coordinator already is.
The Philadelphia Eagles were forced to start rookie tailback Bryce Brown on Monday night. Andy Reid gave the kid 19 carries, something LeSean McCoy received just once in his last six games. Makes sense. It's not like McCoy is one of the best backs in the league or anything.
Mark Sanchez's slip-fail-run-into-a-lineman's-butt-and-fumble debacle has been replayed so many times that we won't mention it here.
After watching Jason Campbell in Week 11 -- not to mention, Charlie Batch in Cleveland on Sunday -- it was nice to see a "backup" quarterback make some big throws down the field, as opposed to dinks and dunks and bunch of none-yard outs. Chad Henne has averaged over 10 yards per attempt for two straight weeks -- that's a first down every time the ball leaves his hand. How does it feel to see a real live pro offense, Jags fans? Pretty cool, huh?
Anyone have any ideas on what to write here? Looking for anything positive. The Oakland Raiders have lost 55-20, 38-17 and 34-10 in successive weeks. Carson Palmer can't get anything going early in games, when the contest is at least still in doubt, while the defense has been the worst in pro football. Oakland came into Week 12 allowing 32.2 points per game. This just in: That average didn't improve Sunday.
Much like the Week 10 loss in Pittsburgh, the Kansas City Chiefs competed against the Broncos on Sunday ... and did just enough to lose. Per the usual, quarterback play was at the center of another defeat. Brady Quinn got a taste of his own medicine when Peyton Hillis bounced a halfback pass at Quinn's feet. See what it feels like?
Elliot Harrison is an analyst on NFL Network's NFL Fantasy Live show, weekdays at 1 p.m. ET and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. ET. Follow him on Twitter @Harrison_NFL.


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VIVUS Gets 3 CEOs in Less Than 2 Months
Three different CEOs in a month and a half. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for VIVUS accelerating sales of its obesity drug Qsymia.
The first guy, Leland Wilson, got kicked out. Never mind that he founded the company, Samuel Colin, senior managing partner at First Manhattan, VIVUS' largest shareholder, succeeded in convincing shareholders that management was the problem. Rather than letting it go to a vote, Wilson agreed to resign.
In concert with the resignation, Anthony Zook, former executive vice president for global commercial operations at AstraZeneca, took over. But less than two months later, the company announced that Zook was stepping down to deal with a previously diagnosed medical condition.
And VIVUS already has a new CEO, Seth Fischer, who was formerly a senior executive at Johnson & Johnson.
Haste makes waste?
It amazes me the speed at which VIVUS has been able to find CEOs. Are there really that many executives qualified to be CEO just sitting by the phone waiting for a job offer?
Admittedly, Colin had some time to find Zook, who agreed to take the job if the proxy vote went First Manhattan's way. But it wasn't like VIVUS' entire board was involved in the decision. From the outside, it looks like Zook was forced upon the board when it was clear the old management was going to lose the proxy fight. Presumably, the new board had to sign off on the new hire, but with six of the 10 members of the board (excluding Zook) coming from First Manhattan's slate, I doubt there was much dissension.
VIVUS didn't say when Zook decided to step down, but it surprises me that the biotech has already found a replacement. Usually someone from the company steps in as an interim CEO for a few months while a search is done.
Given the lackluster sales of VIVUS obesity drug Qsymia, it's understandable that the biotech would want to move quickly. I just hope VIVUS truly found the best candidate for the job.
Big task ahead
Fischer has an uphill battle in front of him. Despite its large size and blockbuster potential, the obesity market is a difficult place to sell drugs. Patients don't want to pay for treatments out of pocket, and doctors are apprehensive about handing out obesity pills like candy.
VIVUS really needs to find a partner to help the company compete with Arena Pharmaceuticals' Belviq, which is marketed by Japanese giant Eisai. Even Orexigen , which is about a year from marketing its obesity drug Contrave, already has a partner in Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Having a partner in and of itself won't be enough, though; it's not like Belviq is flying off the shelves. It's going to take time for doctors to warm up to prescribing Qsymia, Belviq, and Contrave.
Hopefully, Fischer sticks around long enough to see that day.
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This association will be an international oversight entity with global responsibility to ensure specialized training programs and flight instructors are standardized and meet aviation industry quality requirements.
Company Byline: An International Aviation Organization Devoted to Flight Training Quality Assurance & Instructor Pilot Standardization
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The UPRTA target audience is the commercial aviation and air carrier industry. Specifically the flight training organizations, members and participants responsible for the safe education and management of professional pilot flying skills and proficiency.
Attached are logos from two of the UPRTA member organizations. These have been included to only to give a flavor of these organization's past efforts and should not necessarily drive the design of this logo contest. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND: The attached files are patches for flight suits and NOT corporate logos. In this contest, we are looking for a corporate logo.
Please keep in mind that the logo for this design needs to represent high performance commercial aviation where the airplanes involved are in the midst of an unfavorable flight condition, usually most obviously represented by the airplane being in a very high bank angle and/or the nose of the airplane pointing well above or well below the normal level flight orientation of a commercial airplane. Please have a look at the included files with this project or visit the website http://www.apstraining.com to get a feel for the type of flying going on with the UPRTA association. If an airplane is included, it should be in an abnormal flight attitude.
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1. Name: Upset Prevention & Recovery Training Association
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Katy Perry has assured fans the traffic accident she caused in her new video for Birthday was staged.
In character as drunken clown Kriss, the pop star wanders off, blindfolded, from a kids' park party and into traffic on a nearby road, causing an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) to swerve to avoid hitting her. The vehicle then crashes into a parked car. But the stunt was staged as part of Perry's new hidden camera video, in which she goes undercover as the world's worst party performers.
She says, "That was a staged incident. The car crash was all staged."
And she reveals she had to con party planners into thinking they were taking part in a reality TV show as she dressed up as an aged burlesque dancer, a mouse-eating animal trainer, a chubby Jewish MC, a party princess and Kriss The Clown.
The Dark Horse singer explains, "We had to keep this super top secret. Of course, I had to go completely undercover, so it was skewed as a reality show called Birthday Blowout. So people signed up their birthday parties for this crazy reality show where anything could go, and anything did go…! The whole thing was staged."
In the video, Perry only reveals her true identity once as guests at a kids' party question her face-painting skills. She takes off her princess wig and mask and declares, "I'm Katy Perry" to the shocked, screaming fans.


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Awesome Stuff: Refining The Wheel
from the how-we-roll dept
Even up here in Toronto, winter is starting to give way to spring. Among other things, that means getting around is becoming a lot easier — and a lot more fun. It's the time of year that cities start to fill up with people on bikes, boards and blades, all of which are things that people keep on tinkering with, coming up with new improvements and twists on old ideas. Whatever your manual wheels of choice, here are three innovative new ideas that could change the way you roll:
Wheels In Your Pocket: The ABGO
Sometimes, circumstances preclude you from bringing your chosen ride along somewhere. It can be downright infuriating, as you realize how woefully slow your legs are without some mechanical assistance. Enter the ABGO, a short-distance quick-fix that fits in your pocket.
I'm sure some people will have the reaction that this is pointless, and ultimately it's hard to pass judgement on something like this without getting to try one out — but as a cyclist, the sight of this immediately spoke to all my memories of crossing a distance without my bike and wanting nothing more than to roll. There have been various attempts at wheeled shoes over the years, but none that are very compelling. If it works even reasonably well (and the video suggests it does once you get the knack of it) it could actually fill a nice little gap: a wheeled device that isn't bulky like a skateboard or hard to get on and off like rollerblades.
Wheels Where You Want Them: The Beercan Board
About 10 years ago, I worked in a skateboard store for a couple of years. I was never very good at the sport itself, but I sure got lots of practice putting them together, and at convincing skeptical parents to stomach the price tag. Two things I noticed about skateboards was that there is very little variety in their configuration, and also that they all break — often quickly. The Beercan Board changes both those things.
It's not the first aluminum longboard, but it's a great design, and its central feature is pretty innovative: sliding mounts for the trucks, so the wheelbase can be easily adjusted. Judging from the video, it looks like it's accomplished with a combination bolt that allows quick changes without removing the whole assembly (and of course without drilling new holes, which is the only option on most boards). Neat.
Wheels That Work Better: Loopwheels
Folding bikes and other compact cycling options have been around for a long time, and they can be excellent for certain uses — but there's just no denying that the riding experience is much more frustrating and tiresome on those little 20" wheels. The Loopwheel is a shot at alleviating that problem.
As the project page admits upfront, this is nothing less than an attempt to reinvent the wheel. Using springs instead of spokes could open up a whole new level of suspension for compact bike designs that aim to keep size, weight, and bits-that-stick-out to a minimum. The creators claim a distinct advantage over suspension forks, the current solution for compact suspension: Loopwheels offer tangential suspension that cushions impacts from all directions. Again, it's hard to say how big the difference is without trying it, but that assertion makes sense based on the design, and in the video the wheels appear to be quite effective. Nothing could make small wheels as luxurious to ride on as big ones, but any innovation that succeeds in making folding bikes more pleasant is bound to be a hit.
That's all for this week's awesome stuff — thanks for coming along for the ride.
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Gun trafficking and the straw purchasing of firearms would become federal crimes under bipartisan legislation announced by five senators Monday.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the bill would establish tough penalties for those who buy a firearm or ammunition with the intent of transferring it to someone else. The measure would also make it a crime to smuggle firearms out of the United States.
Leahy said there is no federal law now that defines either gun trafficking or straw purchasing — when a person who can legally buy guns transfers those guns to criminals and others barred from gun ownership — as crimes.
For full U.S. news and politics coverage, visit NBCNews.com.
As the gun control debate has heated up after the Dec. 14 elementary school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., a proposed new assault weapons ban and other regulations have become lightning rods for partisan disagreement in Washington.
But the premise of tougher regulation of gun trafficking, on the other hand, has the support of a broader swath of members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives has put forth a bill there similar to the Senate Judiciary Committee's, NBC News reported.
The Senate bill was crafted by Leahy, fellow Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Republicans Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine.
"The absence of any federal law defining gun trafficking as a crime in this country is shocking," Gillibrand said.
The legislation will be taken up by the Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of a package of four bills aimed at reducing gun violence. The others involve regulating assault weapons, enhancing school safety and requiring background checks for all firearm sales.
The Judiciary Committee has taken a lead in considering the gun violence issue following the school shootings last December in Newtown, Conn.
The proposed legislation would make it a crime to transfer a weapon when a person has "reasonable cause to believe" that the firearm will be used in criminal activity. It contains exemptions for the transfer of a firearm as a gift, or in relation to a legitimate raffle or contest.
While existing law makes it a crime to smuggle firearms into the United States, the Senate proposal would also ban the smuggling of weapons out of the United States. That provision is specifically aimed at the trafficking of arms across the Southwest border.


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Fire breaks out in storm-damaged N.J. shore town
MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — Fires that destroyed about 14 homes in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Sandy have rekindled, fueled by natural gas.
Video from WNBC-TV in New York shows flames reaching over Mantoloking. There's a large cluster of flames and smaller fires spread out from it.
An official with the Ocean County Emergency Management Office says authorities believe natural gas lines are fueling the flames. The official says the homes burned down two days ago when Sandy pounded the affluent town.
The official, who would not give his name, says firefighters can't reach the scene because the roads are impassable. The town was under a mandatory evacuation order ahead of the storm.
The fire is in the southern end of the town in the Curtis Point section.
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After you see Jeff's presentation, come and run your own apps against the new profiling tools. We'll have the tools set up in Palm A for 3 drop-in times:
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While waiting for Jeff's presentation you might want to check out the only other WP7 profiler around, the one from EQATEC. It works with both Silverlight and XNA and can profile apps on both the emulator and real phones.
In the latest NZ MSDN Flash from April 2011, John-Daniel Trask from Mindscape said this: "We have put countless hours into profiling and improving the performance of the controls in our Phone Elements suite so, when you're ready to profile your application to find places to improve performance, I strongly recommend the free profiler from Eqatec."
Note: although the abstract is not completely up-to-date, Vibhor A. is giving a talk on tooling including the profiler.
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text: One of the oddest one-hit wonders of the '60s, the New Vaudeville Band — true to their name — drew from the swinging vaudeville, trad jazz, and British music hall styles of the '20s and '30s to create a distinctively anachronistic brand of novelty pop. The group was masterminded by producer/songwriter Geoff Stephens, who in 1966 convened a group of mostly anonymous studio musicians (including drummer Henry Harrison) to record a jaunty, old-timey British number he'd written called "Winchester Cathedral." Though Stephens was credited as the vocalist on the track, it was later confirmed to be sung by ex-Ivy League/Flowerpot Men/First Class vocalist John Carter, who sang through his hands to simulate the sound of a megaphone (as on old Rudy Vallee records). "Winchester Cathedral" was an enormous hit, climbing into the British Top Five and going all the way to number one in America, where it also won a Grammy. Stephens suddenly needed a band for touring purposes and at first invited the similarly backward-looking Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to serve as the living, breathing New Vaudeville Band. Collectively, the group declined, but their saxophonist Bob "Pops" Kerr signed on, joining a lineup that featured Harrison, guitarist Mick Wilsher, keyboardist Stan Haywood, trombonist Hugh "Shuggy" Watts, bassists Neil Korner and Chris Eddy, and new vocalist Alan Klein, who performed under the alias Tristram, Seventh Earl of Cricklewood. The band issued its debut album — titled, naturally, Winchester Cathedral — in 1967, and though they were one-hit wonders in the States (in spite of their touring success there), they notched two more popular singles in the U.K. that year: the Top Ten "Peek-a-Boo" and the Top 20 "Finchley Central." The latter song became the title track of their second album, released by Fontana toward the end of the year. In 1968, the group played a major role on the film soundtrack The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom, but their novelty was beginning to wear off with the record-buying public. The band retreated to the English cabaret circuit, where they eked out a profitable (if lower-profile) existence for some time to come; they also played Las Vegas on occasion and released U.K.-only singles in 1973 and 1976. With numerous personnel shifts in its declining years, the group finally broke up for good in 1988. Kerr, meanwhile, kept the flame of British eccentricity burning with his own Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band. ~ Steve Huey


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As VA struggles, delays and errors greet returning warriors
The processing time for disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs worsened in a majority of its regional offices last year, and the VA has struggled with its much-anticipated plan to correct its problems, according to two recent audits and a review of department data.
The result for veterans is longer waits – often for disability decisions that are incorrect.
The declining performance came in a year the VA was working to boost its performance, hoping to meet long-standing department goals to decide veterans' claims faster and more accurately. Office by office, the department is switching to a new processing system designed to eliminate paper records, curtail pointless shuffling of files and speed decision-making. The VA plans to move all offices to the new system by the end of the year.
In recent months, however, performance has been slipping. Beyond that, two recent audits call into question the VA's ability to transform the department as planned.
The department's inspector general, in a report dated last week, said it was too early to know whether the new system would help the VA reached its goals.
The problems "have made the claims process more difficult, rather than improving efficiency as intended," the report concluded. Users found that documents sometimes took three or four minutes to open. The system repeatedly crashed, and one VA worker told the inspector general it took two hours to process a key part of a claim in the new system – twice as long as in the old system.
The Government Accountability Office, which functions as Congress' investigative arm, said the VA is proceeding without a clear, comprehensive plan.
"The agency risks spending limited resources on initiatives that may not speed up disability claims and appeals processes," it concluded. "This may, in turn, result in forcing veterans to continue to wait months and even years to receive compensation for injuries incurred during their service to the country."
In response to both reports, the VA said much of the criticism was outdated and that the phase-in of its new system allows the department to correct problems along the way. The department said it's optimistic about hitting its speed and accuracy goals by 2015.
The VA's disability benefits are awarded to veterans who suffer physical or mental injuries during their military service. They range from $129 a month to $2,816 a month for a single veteran.
The VA has tried for years to reduce the waiting times, even as both younger and older veterans have sent claims skyrocketing to more than 1 million a year.
According to a McClatchy review of department data, the performance at regional offices deteriorated throughout 2012. The department's long-term goals are that no disability claim is pending more than 125 days and that errors occur in just 2 percent of claims.
From fiscal 2011 to fiscal 2012, the VA's processing speed jumped from an average of 188 days complete a claim to 262 days, according to the VA. The error rate went down slightly, from 16 percent to 14 percent.
In the Wichita, Kan., regional office, which began using the new system for some claims in March, the percentage of claims pending for more than 125 days was 58 percent in January 2012 – and 59 percent in December.
Wichita saw a slight improvement in its error rate, although it remained well above the VA's goal. Its error rate improved from 12 percent to 11 percent during the year.
Wichita's performance was better than some, easily topping the nation's worst regional office, in Baltimore, which at the end of the year had a 26 percent error rate. The regional office that came closest to the VA's goal was Lincoln, Neb., with an error rate of 4 percent.
In an interview last week, the VA said its ongoing transformation should eliminate many of the delays and errors veterans face.
Beth McCoy, who oversees 14 regional offices in the center of the country, said one part of the new system would allow a VA worker processing a claim to see all the necessary information on one computer dashboard rather than toggling among eight or 10 screens.
Another aspect of the reorganization involves routing certain types of claims into specialized "lanes" to move them through with dedicated reviewers.
Finally, the new paperless claims system will allow regional offices to share information quickly with other offices or VA medical centers. A lot of the problems the GAO identified "go away – the shipping files back and forth or between us and the hospital," said Tom Murphy, the director of the VA's compensation service. "A lot of the time that now goes to transporting files simply disappears."
The first regional offices experimented with the new system in 2010 and 2011, and by the end of 2012, 18 offices were on it. By the end of this year, all 56 regional offices are expected to be using the new system.
Regional offices that switched over the earliest basically served as guinea pigs.
"We have phone calls daily with stations that are on" the new system," McCoy said. "You fix one thing and something else comes up. . . . We have seen a lot of improvement. The system is operating faster, more reliably."
While the GAO report said some of the VA's processing problems were outside its control, some stem from staff shortages or inefficiency:
– The huge increase in Agent Orange claims sapped many regional offices. Officials in one office told the GAO that all claims-processing staff members were assigned solely to developing and rating Agent Orange claims for four months in 2011, meaning that no other new and pending claims were processed during that time.
– While nearly 2,000 new workers had been hired since 2009, about 50 percent of claims-processing staffers are green – on their current jobs less than two years, and often not yet fully proficient.
– Collecting medical and other records from the Department of Defense – particularly for National Guard and Reserve members – is a "systemwide challenge."
– The paper-based claims processing system involves multiple handoffs, which may lead to misplaced and lost documents and may cause unnecessary delays.
– The lack of an integrated system requires staff to enter claim information multiple times and search through multiple systems for claim information.
McCoy said the GAO had reviewed the system when it was still being developed.
"We are really looking to fiscal year 2014 to turn the tide, to turn the corner, to make real gains," she said.
The VA added in a statement that the new system is "constantly evolving to meet end-user needs, business requirements and performance benchmarks."
One version of the system was released on Dec. 3, 2012, for example, but prompted concerns about its performance. Those concerns were addressed in a software patch two weeks later, and an updated version of the program deployed in late January "contained no critical defects," the VA said.


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Powerful capabilities including SolidWorks 2010 Interoperability, Plus Key Enhancements to Solids Machining and 64-bit Implementation
Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM®, software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron company, announced that GibbsCAM 2010 will be demonstrated at Booth #115 during the SolidWorks World 2010 Conference. The conference is being held from January 31 - February 3, 2010, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. This marks the twelfth consecutive year that Gibbs and Associates has participated at SolidWorks World.
The demonstrations will include GibbsCAM 2010's new feature enhancements along with GibbsCAM's powerful interoperability with SolidWorks 2010 allowing users to go "from model to metal in minutes." GibbsCAM, a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product, is able to work with SolidWorks designs in a number of different ways ensuring seamless interoperability between the two applications. The SolidWorks-to-GibbsCAM transfer add-in allows models to be directly transferred with a single menu selection within a SolidWorks session to GibbsCAM for NC programming."We aggressively develop and pursue technology to help customers achieve higher productivity with as much ease-of-use as possible," says Bill Gibbs, Gibbs and Associates company founder and president. "The Windows 7 operating system is all about making things easier, and that's what our software is designed to do for machinists and CNC programmers. So we are pleased with the result of our relationship with Microsoft, and proud to be one of the first to offer Windows 7 users fully compatible CAM software."
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New, More Capable Plunge Roughing – Integrated into the software, with the ability to calculate material removal strategies that accommodate carbide-inserted drills, which require special motion for no-drag retractions, while avoiding collision in tight or narrow areas.
Enhancements to Advanced 3D Machining – These include the addition of Hit Flats with specified tools for Pocketing, the ability to specify flatness tolerance in Flats Cut to ensure all desired "flat" areas are machined, locking high feed rate for Shortest Route and Minimal Vertical retract styles, addition of Trim to Ramp Advance as a Contour option for waterline cuts, specifying surface finish with step-over distance or scallop height parameters, and using Stock Bounding Box as an additional machining boundary.
Addition of Option for Stock – Facet bodies, generated from a previous machining process, or brought in through a data file, can now be used as initial stock in solid pocketing.
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J: "Great wind blocking as promised. But I was surprised how much I feel the seams inside and think they should have a comfort liner of some sort."
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I was hoping these would be a little more dexterous, but that was not the case, and the seems are pretty bulky. They could be great for some people, but not for what I needed so I had to return them.
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I bought a pair of these Marmot Windstopper fleece gloves for my wife and she loves them. The windstopper is perfect for winter runs, and the fit is snug enough to provide enough dexterity to be able to fumble with keys and wallets. They run true to size.
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Service was great (helpful rep to chat with and free/quick delivery) but the gloves not so much. I've had these gloves for over 3 weeks now and it just so happened to be during some of the coldest temps we've seen in Philadelphia. I walked home one night from work (approx. 20-25 min) and it was in the teens (felt like single digits due to wind chill). I was carrying my brief case in one hand and my gym bag in the other so no shoving my hands into my pockets. My hands were like ice blocks. I've used these gloves on several other occasions when it's been anywhere from the 20s to low 40s (walking my dogs, shoveling snow and ice, cleaning off my car) but they just aren't as warm as I'd hoped. After all that, they got pretty dirty so I hand washed and air dried them. On the upside, they came out looking new.
These are awesome!
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I also live in THE Windy City and I normally bike to work (about 10 miles total), even through most of the winter, and these are awesome. I thought I'd need a liner underneath but nope; they block the wind and they keep me warm without getting too sweaty. They're so good, get them! I got a large (I'm 5'10") and they are great, a little roomy but fine.
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Not easy to do. Especially living in the "Windy City" getting gear that really performs is not easy. These gloves fit the bill for me! I'm out in the wind, rain and snow walking dogs and these gloves keep my hands warm down to the chilly temp of 16 with windchill at 9! I thank the experts of Back Country for the awesome recommendation!
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I purchased the Women's Mormot Windstopper Gloves to replace a well-worn and much-beloved pair of Mountain Hardware windstopper fleece gloves that I've been using for winter biking and cross-country skiing for the past 11 years. These gloves are everything I've been looking for in a replacement - and I've tried multiple products. These gloves are great for cross-country skiing. The seams are flat and don't irritate my hand where the pole makes contact. They are great in relatively cold weather as well. I tend to struggle with keeping my hands warm while skiing and these gloves make the cut. I haven't tried them on the bike yet, but anticipate great results. These are the closest thing I could find to my old Mountain Hardware gloves. The size chart is accurate.
Definitely windproof!
I use these for bike rides when you can really tell if gloves are windproof or not. These are not the warmest gloves though, probably wouldn't rely on these in the winter. Also I wouldn't use these as liners. The fleece makes it a little took thick for wearing under another glove. I would also size up.. i got xs and they are definitely tight.
Great gloves. We were surprised by a snow strom - and these gloves were great.
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Hey General, It's Me, Chuck. Again.
Chuck Hagel keeps calling Egypt's new dictator. But is anything getting through?
Since the July 3 military coup in Egypt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has spoken to General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi—the country's charismatic strongman—more than 25 times. The two men reportedly first bonded somewhat over a two-hour lunch in April. Apparently, Sissi liked Hagel's "bluntness." Their relationship, forged during one of the worst spells of violence in Egypt's modern history, provides an interesting, if unsettling, window into the strategic drift of U.S. policy in Egypt as well as the broader region.
Since that first lunch, Hagel and Sissi have spoken often. Out of the 30 or so total calls, the U.S. government has provided 15 official readouts over six months, each with a similar set of messages to Sissi: Try to be less repressive and more inclusive. Egypt is the only country where Hagel has a regular, direct line of communication not just with the minister of defense but also the (effective) head of state, since Sissi happens to be both. With each passing month, the readouts become more surreal, with Hagel asking what has become one of the region's more brutal, repressive regimes to be "democratic." Although there are certainly competitors —Syria and Israel-Palestine come to mind —it is difficult to think of another case where U.S. policy is so completely divorced from realities on the ground.
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There is little to suggest that Hagel's exhortations have had even a minimal effect on Sissi and the Egyptian government's conduct. Since the coup, there have been four mass killings, including the worst massacre in decades; some 10,000 people have been arrested or detained; and opposition protests have been banned. The crackdown has extended to secular activists as well, with three leading revolutionaries sentenced to three years in prison. What, then, is the point of all these conversations? Security cooperation is important, but does it require nearly 30 calls, including 10 in the span of one week just after the coup? What, exactly, is going on?
One theory is that the secretary is soft-pedaling his talking points. Hagel hails from the "realist" school, which tends to de-emphasize the internal politics of allied states: To realists, all other things being equal, it would be better if Egypt was a democracy, but it's not essential. More important, to Hagel and many other realists, is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on the broader region, in what journalist Jeffrey Goldberg calls the "linkage" theory.
But Hagel ultimately works for his boss, President Barack Obama. Contrary to what many in the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies may think, the Obama administration did not support the coup, at least not while it was happening. As Adam Entous of the Wall Street Journal reported, Hagel warned Sissi of the dangers of a coup on July 1. But the confusion mounted when Secretary of State John Kerry, just weeks later, appeared to rubber-stamp the military takeover, saying that the generals were " restoring democracy" to Egypt. Why exactly should Sissi listen to Hagel, especially when Kerry was winking?
Hagel's own message was a mixed one. While stressing "inclusiveness" to Sissi, he himself opposed a suspension of military assistance—of which the United States provides Egypt some $1.3 billion a year—suggesting there was little backing up the rhetoric. Sure enough, in October, the Obama administration moved ahead with a partial aid "cut," which, while largely symbolic, might have at least paved the way for a more robust response. In the policy rollout, however, senior officials went out of their way to belittle the importance and impact of the aid suspension, emphasizing that business would continue as usual. During a visit to Egypt on Nov. 3, Kerry reiterated that message in more direct fashion, saying that the "aid issue is a very small issue." Yet, right in the thick of the crackdown, while the government was preparing the ban on opposition protests, Kerry went even further. "The roadmap [is moving] in the direction that everybody has been hoping for," he said. The following day, the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, and other senior Brotherhood figures saw their day in court on trumped-up charges.


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tMat. However, employing
Parallelize yields by far slower results than the plain calculation with a single kernel. There is a minimal working example below.
Does anybody have hints on how to improve the situation, and on how to resolve this and thus efficiently use all kernels for evaluation?
dim = 24;
tVec = Table[RandomReal[{}, {dim, dim}], {i, 1, 100000}];
tMat = RandomReal[{}, {dim, dim}];
DistributeDefinitions[tMat, tVec];
Timing[(tMat . #) & /@ tVec;]
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Timing[Parallelize[(tMat . #) & /@ tVec;]]
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In the United States we've proceeded for sixty years with reconfiguring our public spaces to accommodate the automobile. The built in assumption of this approach, especially when it comes to commercial property, is that the more cars driving by the better. What we've overlooked in our haste to "modernize" is the lower return on investment we get from this approach, even under ideal conditions. Today we need the humility to acknowledge that our ancestors -- who built in the traditional style -- may have known what they were doing after all.
Highway 210 runs east/west through downtown Brainerd. In the hierarchical road system, it is the top of the pyramid and would be classified in most places as a "major arterial". It is designed as a STROAD (a street/road hybrid), attempting to apply highway design standards to what otherwise would be an urban street. In doing so, it has dramatically transformed the land use pattern of the area.
The picture below highlights two blocks that front the highway corridor. The one on the left, which we've labeled "old and blighted", is a block that has retained its traditional development pattern. To the right we have identified the "shiny and new" area, the block that has recently been transformed to an auto-oriented development style, to the glee of city officials and local economic development advocates. In between is a hybrid of the two; part traditional and part auto-oriented.
The old and blighted area is a collection of run down, marginal establishments. There are two liquor stores, a pawn shop, a barber shop, a bankruptcy attorney, a campaign headquarters, a retail establishment, a cafe and a vacant building. This is not a desirable area. If the adjacent highway didn't already ensure decline, local "improvements" have degraded what little pedestrian connectivity may have existed to the adjacent areas. None of it that remains is easy, natural or inviting. In the community's eyes, this is an area that is waiting to redevelop, to transform itself fully into an auto-oriented pattern. That transformation has begun; note that the very westerly building, which is a liquor store, has turned two lots into a parking lot.
By contrast, the shiny and new area contains only one business, that being a new Taco John's drive through fast food restaurant. The modern facility contains two drive-through lanes, good access to the adjacent streets and all the parking that would ever be needed. They've done on-site stormwater retention (the environmentalists applaud) and modern signage. It meets all of the city's design and zoning codes. The restaurant replaced some buildings that were, themselves, part of an evolution from the original, traditional development to the auto-oriented. With the new Taco John's, the transformation is complete.
If there was any question regarding the public's opinion on these two lots, the city of Brainerd's comprehensive plan specifically calls for the transformation of areas that we've labeled "old and blighted" into "shiny and new". The city has designated this area General Commercial, expressing a desire to see the development along this corridor become highway-oriented. This they describe on page 93 of their plan.
General Commercial
The purpose of this category is to identify portions of Brainerd that should contain general retail commercial uses adjacent to the arterial highway system. The intent of this designation is to provide areas for highway-oriented businesses. Consequently, having a strong general commercial base in the city helps the downtown as well. Having a strong highway commercial area helps draw consumers to the city and provides for a healthy downtown. Examples of these could include highway-oriented businesses such as fast food restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations and other auto-oriented businesses as well as a number of large retailers.
In that definition of General Commercial, it is stated that a "strong highway commercial area....provides for a healthy downtown." The problem is that "strong" and "highway commercial" are -- in almost all cases -- mutually exclusive terms. The numbers prove the point in this case.
The eleven old and blighted lots -- some of the most undesirable commercial property in the city -- arranged in the traditional development pattern along the incompatible, major arterial of Highway 210 have a combined tax base of $1,136,500.
To compare, the Taco John's property -- the one that is not only shiny and new but configured precisely as the city of Brainerd desires the old and blighted properties to someday be -- has a total valuation of only $803,200.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, fighting the negative auto traffic speeding by and the absence of pedestrian connectivity, lacking all natural advantage from the neighboring land uses that would ideally accompany a traditional neighborhood design, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41%.
Imagine how much more valuable this traditonal block would be if the businesses were simply given some relief from the speed of the STROAD-induced traffic and/or provided some connectivity to the adjacent neighborhood, two things that could be done far cheaper than the millions the city has spent to make this area the dominion of cars.
Imagine how much more prosperous we would all be if we started building Strong Towns.


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Editor's note: I know we said that we were taking a week off, but I did want to share the following brief post from Catherine Crowley before she and her students take off for Ghana tomorrow.
For the fifth year, masters' students in speech-language pathology from Teachers College Columbia University travel to Ghana to provide services and collaborate with our Ghanaian colleagues. I am the program director, Miriam Baigorri is clinical director, and Pamela Andres is clinical supervisor of the Ghana program. This year's 18 students will work at the two major teaching hospitals with the ENT Departments, cleft palate and teams, and with the Division of Special Education of Ghana's Ministry of Education. This year we will participate in a professional development retreat focusing on AAC for 54 special education teachers from throughout Ghana. In addition, Skye McLeod, a documentary film maker, is accompanying us to record the work.
We leave December 30th and return January 14, 2012. We invite you to join by following our 2012 blog.
Catherine (Cate) Crowley, J.D., Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a distinguished senior lecturer in the program of SLP at Teachers College Columbia University where she coordinates the bilingual/multicultural program focus and directs the Bilingual Extension Institute. In addition to the Ghana trip, Cate has led TC students to Bolivia for six years. Cate is a member of ASHA's SIG 17 Global Issues in Communication Disorders.


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Telepresence enhances performance whether market booms or busts
According to a recent article in ARN, economic resurgence following the recent global financial crisis has opened wide the Australian telepresence market. Already a telepresence pioneer in terms of education, the Australian telepresence market is now also taking off in government, banking and financial services, utilities and mining, health care, and professional services, the article said.
The story focused on a study by Frost & Sullivan analysts who looked at trends in the videoconferencing market, which includes telepresence. They found revenues increased by 33 percent in 2010 and predicted the Aussie videoconferencing market would more than triple by 2017.
While we are excited about the increasing economic confidence and concurrent eagerness to adopt telepresence, it's worth noting that telepresence technology can also act as an austerity measure. Take the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which recently began installing telepresence in 15 sites around the country. GSA wants to increase telepresence use as a cost-cutting measure, in response to budget cuts, according to Fierce Government IT. The telepresence centers will enable more teleworking and lessen the need for expensive business travel.
The fact that governments, businesses, manufacturers, schools, and health care networks all seek to adopt telepresence technology—some as an upgrade, others as a money-saver—demonstrates the versatility of the technology. Telepresence crosses economic lines, meets multiple needs, and makes communication more efficient and convenient. It's exciting to be part of the revolution! Do you agree?
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Jim Lehrer has been widely criticized for his passive performance as moderator of Wednesday's night's presidential debate, but in his first post-debate interview, he tells POLITICO that he was simply fulfilling his new mission, which was to allow the candidates to engage one another without interruption.
"Based on what the goal was, I saw it as successful," Lehrer told POLITICO. "I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another."
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"I don't consider that being passive, I consider it being effective," he said. "It's not my job to control the conversation. If the candidates gave me resistance, and I let them talk, to me that's being an active moderator, not a passive moderator."
Both President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney commended Lehrer's performance, but he was heavily criticized by politicians and pundits across the political spectrum for rarely challenging the candidates and for backing down from confrontation almost every time he tried to interject himself into the conversation.
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Fox News host Chris Wallace criticized Lehrer for seeming to "lose some control" of the candidates, while MSNBC host Chris Matthews "said the moderator did not moderate." Discussing the multiple instances in which Romney spoke over Lehrer, Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said she "sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney."
But Lehrer said that the new debate format, in which candidates each get two minutes to answer a question and an additional 11 minutes to debate with one another, was meant to give the moderator a less active role.
( Also on POLITICO: Wallace: Lehrer could have been better)
"I came away thinking this was a very successful debate because we accomplished what the mission was," he said.
"The goal of the new format was to have the candidates talk directly to one another, in an extensive way, about things that matter," he said. "One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role. But from the very beginning, everybody has been saying that what we really want is to have a real debate, not to have a moderator conducting a pseudo interview."
Lehrer said he was aware of the criticism, but that he would have no trouble putting it behind him.
"I understand that there were a lot of tweets. I didn't follow it carefully," he said. "Everybody was learning here."
"I'm not suggesting that everything I did was terrific," he continued. "But we're defining terrific here, in front of 67 million people. So yes, I've heard some of the criticism, but it's not keeeping me awake at night. My conscience is clear."


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25 Race Tracks Throughout The Southeastern United States
CIRCLE TRACK magazine, the #1 Source for Advanced Racing Technology, today announced the launch of the AMSOIL Great American CIRCLE TRACK Tour. The most popular and comprehensive technical magazine dedicated to Oval Track racers in the world is embarking on a four year adventure that will criss-cross the greatest racing regions of our country. We will travel to both local Saturday night race tracks and a selection of the most prestigious special events in the country. Our goal is to interact with racing teams, drivers and fans to promote grass roots racing, discuss current trends in racing technology and build sponsor awareness among the hard-core racing community.
The first year of the AMSOIL Great American CIRCLE TRACK Tour will take Senior Tech Editor, Bob Bolles, to 25 race tracks throughout the Southeastern United States during a four month period. Each stop will be pre-arranged with track owners & promoters ensuring the maximum possible exposure through advance announcements, local publicity and press releases. While at the track, Bob will meet with the racers to talk shop and discuss issues important to their racing and also to distribute sponsor information, literature & promo items. He will talk one on one with the top teams in all divisions racing at each track in a unique exchange that will be shared with our larger online audience through blogs and web exclusive articles at www.circletrack.com.
This interaction with the racers will be reported in more detail through a series of articles published in the pages of CIRCLE TRACK Magazine on a monthly basis. Feature stories will review the trip and discuss the technology of racing and how it varies throughout the regions we visit. During the entire Tour, Bob will share his experiences online with daily entries into a special trip blog where our friends can keep track of our progress. The tour promises to be the most innovative program in the history of short track racing.
Bob had the idea for a tour like this more than five years ago, but circumstances at the time prevented it from coming to fruition. When current Editor Rob Fisher heard about the idea he liked it and the pair worked to refine the concept for launch in 2010. When synthetic lubricant manufacturer AMSOIL joined the tour as title sponsor, it was off to the races…literally. Please join us as we venture where no magazine has ever ventured before, into the inner circle of oval track racing.
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The Daily Startup: Bullpen Capital Bolsters Inaugural Fund, Tapping Early-Stage Interest
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Bullpen Capital has added $15 million to its inaugural fund, VentureWire has learned, tapping into interest from new limited partners that wanted to own a piece of the early-stage investor's portfolio. The new funds bring the total capital raised by Bullpen Capital LP to $25 million. There's still some interest from investors to participate in the fund, which may add another $5 million to $8 million, said Duncan Davidson, one of its three managing directors. For Bullpen, the idea is to expand its ability to participate in follow-on fundings for its most successful portfolio companies.
Health Catalyst raised $33 million in Series B funding to help clinicians combine and organize health-care data from disparate sources and analyze it in near real time. Government regulators have been pushing the health-care industry to adopt electronic medical records. Health Catalyst, whose customers are U.S. hospitals, currently serves more than 20 million patients by pulling data from dozens of systems both inside and outside a hospital, including clinical data, financial data and patient satisfaction scores.
Also in today's VentureWire, Light-emitting diode system provider Digital Lumens has raised a $10 million insider round of capital to hire staff necessary to reach more customers abroad and in the commercial sector. The company's energy-efficient lights are controlled by software that dims and turns off the lights as necessary...Altitude Digital has raised $5 million in its first round of equity financing to build a future in video advertising. The company has spent the last three years providing a service that enables Web publishers to auction off individual ad space as visitors come to a page. In November it added Visualtising, a similar service, but built for video ads...and BIND Biosciences, which aims to use nanotechnology to make a widely used chemotherapy safer and more effective, is branching out into the field of molecularly targeted cancer therapies through a new alliance with Amgen.
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