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Conspiracy theories wide of mark
John Taylor
September 21, 2011
Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu launched a scathing attack on the IRB over the RWC fixture list © Getty Images
Eliota Sapolu's rant on twitter was way over the top and he is lucky he is not in trouble with the International Rugby Board but it did yet again highlight the real grievance felt by the smaller nations at every Rugby World Cup.
Sapolu's expletive laden tweets left nobody in any doubt he felt the organisers had loaded the dice against Samoa for their match against Wales - and there can be no doubt that the smaller nations get a raw deal when it comes to scheduling - but his inference, that they are doing it to minimise upsets and preserve the status quo, is rubbish.
First, let us look at the real facts surrounding that match. Yes, Samoa had a four day turnaround whilst Wales had seven days but they had played very different opposition.
Wales had had a brutal battle against South Africa, the top seeds in the pool, and had given everything before coming up just short of pulling off a famous victory. By comparison Samoa had had a gentle pipe opener against the weakest side in the pool and perhaps the tournament. True, they did not come through unscathed but injuries in rugby are a fact of life.
They could have fielded a side full of back-up players if they had so wished and would still have won comfortably but chose to give their strongest starting XV and outing - running out 49-12 winners. Without the injuries I would argue it was the ideal preparation for the Welsh game.
I also have no doubts Wales would have preferred to meet the Springboks later in the tournament but the schedule demanded a big game on that first weekend and Pool D was the unlucky group selected to provide it.
Because rugby is so physical the gaps between matches will always be a big issue that has to be factored in when the playing calendar is being worked out but there are a host of other factors too and, ultimately, as always in professional sport money is one of the most important.
Television rights are arguably the biggest contributor to IRB revenues from World Cups and the deal with UK broadcaster ITV for this tournament was not announced until July 2010 - very late in the day for such a major contract. To many people's surprise it was also announced that this would be another two-tournament deal so that ITV are guaranteed coverage of the 2015 tournament when England are the host nation.
Having been involved on the periphery of the negotiations of the previous deal for 2003 and 2007 I was not at all surprised. ITV pulled out of those negotiations at one stage in 2000 because we were worried about losing money in Australia; at that stage nobody realised that England would end up favourites and eventual winners.
It was only when we were able to restructure to guarantee rights for the 2007 RWC in France - critically in the same time zone which guaranteed big audiences and commercial success - that the IRB/RWC were able to command the money they wanted (and needed for the development funding for the next four years).
Even then we spent a huge amount of time discussing the tournament schedule. It was still essential that Home Unions matches and other major games would be staged at weekends with evening kick-offs so that they would not be happening in the middle of the night back in the UK.
Knowing how important this was the Australian Rugby Union organising committee was wonderfully cooperative and even agreed to put England in the pool that played its early games in Perth where the time difference was only seven hours instead of nine. Kick-offs at midday or later on weekends - perfect!
Imagine how much more important that scheduling is here in New Zealand where the time difference started out as 11 hours and moves to 12 this weekend. New Zealand is still a country where most people go to bed early even at weekends so it has come as a shock to many of the locals to discover the final will not kick-off until 9.00pm.
So, forget the conspiracy theories - this is all about money. The IRB like the idea of the smaller nations competing - hence the increase to 20 nations from 16 - because the World Cup provides a great platform for promoting rugby as a global game - but the penalty is they have to put up with a playing schedule where giving them a level playing field is not the priority.
It is partly a confidence thing and will only change when the IRB manages to persuade television that the World Cup is indeed the third biggest sporting event in the world behind the football World Cup and the Olympics so that fans will find a way of watching whenever games are played. Only then will they be able to schedule fairly.
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John Taylor is a former Wales and British & Irish Lions international and currently the managing director of London Welsh
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Leaked memo makes case for drone strikes on US citizens; Japanese PM condemns China for locking radar on Japanese ship; South Korea pushes to deploy spy satellites to watch North Korea; Tunisian opposition leader shot dead; plagiarism scandal threatens Angela Merkel's re-election campaign; and more
Top of the Agenda: Memo Reveals Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans
A leaked Justice Department memo, concluding that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be senior operational leaders of al-Qaeda, was released on Tuesday (NBC), providing new details about the legal rationale behind one of the Obama administration's most controversial polices. The White House has dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaeda suspects abroad, including American citizens. The report also revealed that for the past two years, the Central Intelligence Agency has been operating a secret airbase (BBC) in Saudi Arabia for unmanned drones, established to scout for members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
"The revelation that U.S. drone strikes against militants in Yemen have been launched from a secret base inside Saudi Arabia will be an embarrassment for the government in Riyadh. King Abdullah has embarked upon a gradual process of reform in the face of a conservative religious elite who strongly object to the presence of foreign non-Muslim troops in the country," writes Bill Law for the BBC.
"The current trajectory of U.S. drone strike policies is unsustainable. Without reform from within, drones risk becoming an unregulated, unaccountable vehicle for states to deploy lethal force with impunity," writes Micah Zenko in this CFR Special Report.
"The example of clandestine and surreptitious British support for CIA's drone campaign, conducted away from public and legal scrutiny, raises troubling questions about the ability of governments to circumvent the law and elude popular accountability in the pursuit of foreign military adventurism," writes Murtaza Hussain for al-Jazeera.
Japan's Abe Slams China Radar
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned China on Wednesday over the locking of a radar on a Japanese destroyer (KyodoNews) in the East China Sea by a Chinese navy vessel near the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in late January.
CFR's Sheila Smith talks about China, Japan, and the rise of nationalism in this Expert Brief.
SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's military is pushing to deploy spy satellites (Yonhap) to strengthen its surveillance of North Korea in light of its growing nuclear threats.
Tunisian opposition leader shot dead
Plagiarism scandal threatens Angela Merkel's re-election
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One of the most common and distressing side effects associated with combination therapy today concerns visible changes in body composition and appearance. Although some aspects of this phenomenon were reported in earlier years of the epidemic, the frequency of reports has greatly increased since the beginning of the protease inhibitor era in 1996.
These changes in appearance are brought about by several different forms of redistribution of body fat -- fat moving away from the face, arms, butt and legs, and then collecting around the gut (central obesity), at the base of the neck (buffalo hump) and/or in the breasts (breast enlargement). Less frequently seen are accumulations of lumpy fat tissue, similar in appearance to cellulite, on the back below the shoulder blades. Associated with these changes, and possibly causally related, are striking increases in a number of blood test markers, such as triglycerides and cholesterol level, and insulin resistance. These blood changes have sometimes been linked to increased risk of heart disease and to the development of diabetes.
The cause of these changes is unknown or at least uncertain. Is it a consequence of HIV disease progression? Is the virus itself interfering with the way the body processes fat and protein? If so, why is it more common today than before? Are these changes a result of protease inhibitor therapy, as is commonly thought? If so, why have they occurred in some people who haven't used protease inhibitors, or any anti-HIV therapy at all? Are some of the drugs used today more or less likely than others to contribute to these problems? Are there any treatments that can prevent or treat these changes? What is the long-term consequence of these changes, and what percentage of HIV infected people are experiencing them?
Sadly, all these questions currently remain unanswered. Changes in body composition and all laboratory (e.g. blood work results) abnormalities associated with these changes have not been clearly defined, but are currently grouped together and referred to as "lipodystrophy" (pronounced, lip-oh-dis-troh-fee).
Can Lipodystrophy Be Treated?
While lipodystrophy clearly affects an increasing number of people, there have been no controlled studies investigating how to treat the condition. Reports of individual successes cannot be considered predictive of whether the treatments will work for others.
Three separate reports claim some success in treating lipodystrophy associated with the use of protease inhibitor-containing regimens. Those reports occurred as a result of switching people off protease inhibitors and substituting a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) (see "Drug Identification Chart"). Physicians reported some reductions in central obesity (fat around the gut); however, not everyone had a return of peripheral fat (fat in the arms and legs). Reductions were also reported in lipid levels (cholesterol and triglycerides) and a reversal of insulin resistance (which is associated with diabetes).
One potential area of concern from a study showed that 10% of the group who switched to a NNRTI-class drug had increases in HIV levels. This could be just coincidence. It is possible these people would have had an increase in HIV levels if they stayed on their protease inhibitors. Nevertheless, this observation does cause some concern. Despite these seemingly positive findings, the number of people involved was very small and some individual physicians have reported contradictory results in their own medical practices.
A physician in New York has observed that growth hormone (Serostim®) had some effect in reducing central obesity and buffalo hump in a few patients. But Serostim® had no effect on facial and limb wasting or on decreasing lipid levels. One person had to stop growth hormone therapy because of side effects and had a rapid return of central obesity. It was again reduced when the growth hormone was restarted. Considering the extremely high cost of Serostim® and the apparent need for continuous therapy, it is hard to consider this approach particularly hopeful.
A number of people have reported success with using liposuction technology to remove disfiguring buffalo humps; however, there is every reason to fear that such humps will slowly grow back over time, since the underlying cause has not changed. Liposuction is not recommended for treatment of central obesity, since the fat is stored deeply behind the abdominal muscles and cannot be easily removed. Some women have resorted to breast reduction surgery when excessive growth lead to pain and difficulty walking. Surgical solutions such as these should only be considered in the most extreme cases, especially since their long-term success is unknown.
Several small studies looked at the use of specific drugs to treat some of the laboratory abnormalities associated mainly with the use of protease inhibitor therapy. One study showed that the combination of gemfibrozil (Lopid®) and atorvastatin (Lipitor®) lowered lipid levels to the normal range in about 50% of people. Another study showed that metformin (Glucophage®) reduced central obesity and insulin resistance but also led to an average 2kg weight loss. Finally, one other study showed that troglitazone (Rezulin®) reduced glucose levels but had no effect on lipid levels.
Many of these therapies have potential drug interactions with protease inhibitors. Doctors and patients who consider experimenting with these approaches to manage lab abnormalities should talk to a pharmacist about possible drug interactions and any necessary dose adjustments to therapies.
It is difficult to conduct studies to treat lipodystrophy because of the need for an agreed upon case definition. An Australian group is likely to have some new results by the middle of this year that may give us a better definition for lipodystrophy. A large US study will start shortly to look at the prevalence of lipodystrophy. That study may also provide us a better working definition to use in other studies as well as in clinics.
To date, much of the effort to study lipodystrophy has been driven by pressure from AIDS activists. Even though the problem has been evident for nearly three years, it has taken a very long time for pharmaceutical companies and the research community in general to take positive steps toward further understanding it. It appears that community pressure has once again been helpful since several new studies will soon be underway, by both government and industry.
|"When lab marker changes reach what appear to be life threatening levels, physicians should act appropriately, just as they would any other time these tests show alarming results.
Many groups are studying the cause of lipodystrophy. Glaxo Wellcome scientists have recently reported that they have conducted laboratory studies which seem to have identified two possible causes of fat redistribution. Both mechanisms are similar to, but not exactly the same as, that posed by the Australian group previously. The Glaxo theory suggests that the problem might be caused by one mechanism by ritonavir, saquinavir, and nelfinavir, and/or a somewhat different mechanism related to indinavir. For the moment, they believe that their own protease inhibitor, amprenavir, poses neither problem, but only time will tell if this is accurate or merely self-reporting.
Unfortunately, in the meantime, there is very little information available for people on how to diagnose and treat this syndrome. For most people, fat redistribution does not become physically dangerous. However, triglyceride and cholesterol levels can become so severely elevated that many physicians worry about increased risks of heart disease and other serious conditions. Careful and frequent monitoring of lab tests, along with regular physical examinations, should become part of the medical routine for people on combination therapies. When lab marker changes reach what appear to be life threatening levels, physicians should act appropriately, just as they would any other time these tests show alarming results.
It is unclear just how widespread these problems are, with various groups reporting incidence levels ranging from roughly 15% to as high as 75%. This widespread difference probably reflects variations in the underlying definition used for lipodystrophy. There is as yet no reason to suspect that these problems will affect everyone, but there is certainly enough evidence to suggest that a serious problem exists which demands greater attention than it has been given.
What Is "Lipodystrophy"?
Currently there is not an official definition for lipodystrophy, which makes it difficult to study in any systematic way. The following "working" definition lumps together the thinking of a number of groups. Much of this information may prove useful for doctors and their patients in monitoring for possible early signs of lipodystrophy.
Noted changes in body composition (self-reported by a patient, diagnosed or confirmed by a physician with the aid of tests such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), comparative photographs and measurements, or made apparent review of medical records). These changes include at least one of the following:
The changes in body composition are commonly accompanied by abnormal lab results including at least two of the following:
Because other HIV-related conditions might effect body composition, if an individual has had a serious HIV-related condition (e.g. an AIDS-defining condition) within the past three months, it can't be certain that changes in body composition are a result of lipodystrophy, but might be due to other infections.
We know that certain therapies (anabolic steroids) also affect body composition. If changes in body composition occur while someone is taking these therapies, it is unclear if the changes are HIV-related, related to anti-HIV therapies and/or related to the anabolic steroids.
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Acholi Must Protect Land
This is why I cannot but praise Acholi MPs who have exercised common sense by stating that the first step is to have people return to their original homes, and then whoever wants to engage in business with them; let him go directly to them.
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Few people seem to recall when and how displaced people's camps were started in Acholi. I do remember very well how around September 1996 the army went around villages in Gulu district compelling people to leave their homes –at times giving them a deadline of one or two days, not rarely forcing them to vacate the village on the spot- and concentrate in "protected villages" in trading centres.
The message those days was that they were going to finish off the rebels in a military operation that would last "two or three months", and after that period people could go back to their homes.
Other camps were started because of people spontaneously fleeing the Lord's Resistance Army terror. Others came into existence after the UPDF gave a 48-hour ultimatum broadcast in September 2002, after which the people who had resisted previously had little choice.
If I cannot grasp how people can forget so easily what happened a mere decade ago, it defies my understanding how we seem to be forgetting these days the origin of the so-called "decongestion" or "satellite" camps that now dot the countryside of Acholiland.
It is almost two years that in one of their recent plans for the North, the government announced the resettlement of IDPs in Lango and Teso, from the displaced people's camps to their homes, and the moving of the people of Acholi to these smaller settlements on the grounds that there were still "pockets of rebels" roaming the rural areas that could cause insecurity.
Well, ever since the remaining LRA fighters moved from Acholi to South Sudan and to Garamba, there have been no more of such "pockets", and in any case the government has announced almost every other week that with or without peace talks succeeding the Kony rebels would never return to Uganda.
If we are to take these statements seriously, it simply means that the reason for the existence of satellite camps is no more, and we should expect all camps, big or small to disappear and see people going back to their own ancestral land.
But go to Acholi these days and see by yourself that the ones going back straight to their original homes are a minority. Updated figures by humanitarian agencies like UNHCR speak of about half a million people resettled, most of them in Lango and Teso. So, we still have at least 1,200,000 IDPs in Acholi. Unless, of course, we want to count the ones living in satellite camps as having reached their homes, which I don't think is the case!
The situation is tricky, to say the least. It is not that anybody prevents people from going back to their original homes, but the sheer fact is that if you pick up your belongings and go there, in most cases you will find no water, no functional school and almost nothing to support you.
Fear, also, is still a factor. At the same time, you wonder why local councils –which have a lot of power and can count on available resources - are not doing more to help people reach the places which are truly theirs and settle there. And why are some NGOs contributing to this artificial situation by availing facilities in displaced people settlements and not in the people's real homes?
Under these circumstances, here come proposals (we hope they are only that) of giving big chunks of land for commercial farming in Amuru district. Let us suppose that I am a potential investor (foreign or local) and that I want a start a business. The procedure in such cases is normally that I go and speak directly to the people I want to deal with and the local authorities who represent them.
Going directly to the country's highest authority for the government to try to convince the people to accept the arrangement sounds strange, to say the least, and it can even reinforce the perception that maybe it was true after all that there is a hidden agenda - to keep the people in the new camps as a reserve of cheap labour, as it happened for many years in South Africa under the apartheid regime.
Call it industrialisation or progress if you like. No one will convince me that this is nothing but potential exploitation of war victims in their own territory.
This is why I cannot but praise Acholi MPs who have exercised common sense by stating that the first step is to have people return to their original homes, and then whoever wants to engage in business with them; let him go directly to them. Archbishop John Baptist Odama in his Christmas homily also cautioned people about the "greed of the rich" who want to take advantage of people's land.
As simple as that.
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In sports, everybody is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Peyton Manning, who won the weekend when it was gift-wrapped with a pretty bow and handed to him by Bill Belichick.
In the past week, all the stories leading up to the Big Game were about Manning vs. Brady, Manning vs. Belichick, how the undefeated Colts would finally get their reality check against the dynastic Patriots. Despite all his deadly offensive success, the Patriots were the one team that could still give Manning fits (despite four Colts wins in the last five meetings) as they had ruined many a magical season during his career. And all the focus would still be on Manning today, if it weren't for The Call.
"Gaffe" and "Hubris."
"The worst decision ... ever."
"Lack of Faith."
"A Bummer."
"Arrogantly Boneheaded."
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Pretty much everyone is in agreement that Belichick's decision to go for it on 4th-and-2 from his own 28 is the most arrogantly boneheaded (see?) coaching decision since Julius Caesar woke up on March 15 and said, "I think I'll go into work today." When your only two intellectual defenders are Merrill Hoge and Deion Sanders—noted fan of "swagger"—that's got to lead to some soul searching. (But hey, they covered! That's what's really important.)
As for Manning, his fourth quarter interception appeared to doom him to yet another big defeat against New England, but two more touchdowns in the final four minutes completed a 17-point comeback and his season remains perfect. So what if he needed Football's Einstein to momentarily turn into Andy Reid for one drive? Everyone keeps expecting Manning and his Colts to fold—no Bob Sanders, weaker home field, do they even have a coach?—and they just keep winning. (For now.)
Just as long as he stays away from the Lucas Oil hotdogs.
Belichick gaffe unrivaled [Shaughnessy]
Colts make Pats pay for Bill's unusually dumb decision [CBS]
Bill Belichick And The Art Of Second Guessing [Sussman]
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Manny Pacquiao: Greatest fighter ever? I'll just take your word for it, because I'm still not paying $40 to watch a boxing match on TV. [Telegraph, GMANews]
Jimmie Johnson: Johnson all but locked up an unprecedented fourth straight Winston NASCAR Sprint Solo Cup Chase championship victory. And the man has never once used his turn signal. [LA Times]
The Bengals: They are officially "for real." So when do the knee injuries start again? [AP]
Jim Harbaugh: Two wins in three tries against not-so-mighty USC, both at the Coliseum (complete with a nice FU to Pete Carroll) and a big fat contract extension coming his way. Also, you wouldn't believe the luck this guy has getting good parking spots in Palo Alto. [Ray Ratto]
Brandon Jennings: I think we could all benefit from a summer in Europe. [Yahoo! Sports]
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Let $k$ be a finite field, say with $q=p^a$ elements. Honda-Tate theory states that there is a bijection between isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties over $k$ and $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$-conjugacy classes of algebraic integers in $\mathbb{C}$ all of whose conjugate have absolute value $p^{a/2}$ (these are the so-called "Weil numbers"). For a beautiful survey, see Tate's Bourbaki seminar .
Given a simple abelian variety $A/k$, the associated Weil number $\pi_A$ (or rather its conjugacy class) corresponds to the Frobenius endomorphism, view as an element of $\mathrm{End}_k(A)$. Let now $C$ be a smooth, projective, irreducible curve over $k$ and let $\mathcal{A}/C$ be an abelian scheme, therefore a family of abelian varieties parametrized by points of $C$. There is a Frobenius operator acting on $\mathcal{A}$ giving the Frobenius operator on each fiber $A_v$ for all $v\in C$, and these fibers are abelian varieties over finite fields for all closed $v$. My question is how Honda-Tate behaves in families, so if we can find a bijection between isogeny types of $\mathcal{A}/C$ and "polynomials" in $\mathcal{O}_C[T]$ (or may be in $\Gamma(C,\mathcal{O}_C)[T]$?) whose specialization at every closed point has roots that are Weil numbers.
EDIT: As Piotr Achinger observes, it seems reasonable that the coefficients be in characteristic $0$. I do not know if hoping the coefficients to live in the Witt vectors of $\mathcal{O}_C$ is enough for giving some sense to "a family parametrized by $C$.
I am tempted to think the answer should be "yes", being so fiber-wise. On the other hand, if we pick a "random" collection of Weil polynomials building an element of $\mathcal{O}_C[T]$, I would be surprised if we can build an abelian scheme over $C$ having the "right" fibers (because, for instance, abelian schemes must have good reduction everywhere, and it seems too strong a condition to be simply controlled by a "nice" collection, if what I write ever makes any sense).
If the answer to my question is "yes" (or if it can be made to be "yes" after some modification of my question...), is this "polynomial" in two variables related to the Hasse-Weil function of the abelian scheme? After all, they are both constructed by looking at Frobenius acting on Tate modules, so I would expect a connection.


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The record-setting, line-crossing, sexuality-flaunting, ever-evolving Material Girl.
Madonna is an icon. With her larger than life persona and penchant for provocation, she needs no introduction.
Madonna is one of the most recognizable names in the world—and not just the world of music.
She became the first multimedia pop icon, crossing from dance-oriented pop music into movies, television, videos, fashion and books while achieving a level of celebrity comparable to that of a primary inspiration, Marilyn Monroe.
Madonna has been a ubiquitous and, at times, controversial figure since erupting on the scene with her debut single, "Everybody," in 1982. No one in the pop realm has manipulated the media with such a savvy sense of self-promotion. Yet Madonna's career has always had a solid musical footing, and her life—however outrageous and calculated at certain points—has proceeded on an unfolding path of self-discovery and open-hearted revelation.
As a fully liberated woman who's lived life on her own terms, Madonna has been an icon to many since bursting on the scene in 1981. Certainly Madonna is one of the most fascinating, uninhibited and well-documented figures of the modern age, and her music has provided an ongoing documentary of her life and times. From the energetic dance-floor anthems of her early years to the introspective balladry of her middle period to the religious and political themes that preoccupy her later work, Madonna has offered surprises and challenges at every turn.
She was born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, the third of eight children, in Bay City, Michigan. She dropped out of college and moved to New York in 1978, bringing only a suitcase and dreams of being a professional dancer. A European tour with a disco singer, for whom she danced and sang backup, led to a half-year in Paris before a return to New York and a turn in a New Wave-ish band called the Breakfast Club. During her scuffling years in New York, she taught herself to play drums, keyboards and guitar; did modeling work and odd jobs; danced with the Alvin Ailey and Pearl Lange troupes; and made inroads as a singer and dancer on Manhattan's club circuit.
Her break came in 1982, when she signed with Sire Records (her label for the next 14 years), after famously auditioning for label head Seymour Stein in his hospital room. "She was singing with all her heart, and that's what came across," Stein recalled. "I wanted to sign her immediately." At Sire, Madonna's provocative persona and musical imagination were given free reign. In short order, Madonna exploded onto dance floors, airwaves and television, where she grabbed the attention of the first generation of MTV viewers. She became an early emblem of "women in rock," helping dissolve gender boundaries in the music business to the point where that catchphrase has become unnecessary, even a bit anachronistic. She also deliberately pushed the envelope, openly offering sexuality as part of the package.
"I wanted to go, 'Don't tell me what to do just 'cause I'm a girl," Madonna told People magazine in 2000. "Don't tell me I can't be sexual and intelligent at the same time…. I'm happy to have been a pioneer."
Madonna became one of the top stars of the Eighties, selling 60 million records worldwide, making headlines and achieving a level of pop celebrity rivaled only by Michael Jackson, Prince and Bruce Springsteen. She had seven Number One hits (from 1984's "Like a Virgin" through 1989's "Like a Prayer") and three Number One albums (Like a Virgin [1984], True Blue [1986], Like a Prayer [1989]) in that time. She also sparked debate and controversy with such songs as "Material Girl" and "Papa Don't Preach." She released four of the decade's most high-impact albums—Madonna (1983), Like a Virgin, True Blue and Like a Prayer. They collectively logged eight-and-a-half years on the charts, making Madonna a ubiquitous presence. She also charted twenty singles in the Eighties, seven of which reached Number One—a number surpassed only by Michael Jackson's nine.
Madonna also made her presence felt in films, appearing in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Shanghai Surprise (1986), Who's That Girl? (1987) and Dick Tracy (1990). She capped off an amazing decade with The Immaculate Collection (1990), a compilation of fifteen hits and two new tracks. The sexually frisky video for one of them, "Justify My Love" (written by Lenny Kravitz), triggered controversy and moral outrage.
She fearlessly entered the Nineties by pushing the envelope even further on the Blonde Ambition World Tour. The elaborate stagecraft, choreography and costuming edged the concert experience closer to a ribald, eye-popping musical. An uncensored documentary of her life, onstage and off, was filmed with Madonna's authorization. Titled Truth or Dare (1991), it, too, made headlines, with some lauding her unvarnished honesty and others fretting she'd crossed the line again. But all this paled in comparison to the 1992 publication of Madonna's X-rated picture book, Sex. It was accompanied by another envelope-pushing album (Erotica [1992]) and tour (The Girlie Show). That same year, she launched her own label, Maverick Records, in conjunction with Warner Bros.
Madonna's more self-reflective 1994 release, Bedtime Stories, yielded the single "Take a Bow," a ballad that became the biggest hit of her career. In 1995, Madonna played the lead role in Evita, a film biography of Eva Peron, the Argentinean leader and heroine. Her work earned the best notices of her film career and won her a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Evita soundtrack went to Number Two and sold 4 million copies.
The singer's budding interest in Kabbalah, a mystical religion deriving from Judaism, informed 1998's Ray of Light. Madonna's first album of new material in four years found her reassessing her life in light of a spiritual awakening. "It's about my relationship to fame and how my image spiraled out of control," Madonna told USA Today. "I convinced myself that [fame] was going to be enough to take the place of real intimacy. I was incredibly naïve."
Mixing folk and electronica, Madonna's 2000 release Music returned her to a more extroverted sound and outlook. The title track became her twelfth Number One single. By this time, Madonna was becoming more consumed by family life. She had a daughter (Lourdes) by a boyfriend, Carlos Leon, and a son (Rocco) by husband Guy Ritchie, a British videographer and filmmaker, whom she'd married in December 2000.
Madonna has continued to confuse and confound all stereotypes. Two and a half years after Music, she returned with American Life, which took a withering look at fame, fortune, consumerism and the contemporary political landscape. Proving she was still not averse to stirring up controversy, Madonna locked lips with Britney Spears during their August 2003 performance of "Like a Virgin" on the MTV Music Video Awards. A month later, she published the first of several children's books, The English Roses, which became a best-seller.
According to The Guinness Book of World Records, Madonna is the Most Successful Female Recording Artist of All Time. She claims the second-longest string of consecutive Top Five hits—and the most by a female artist—with a run of sixteen that extended from 1984's "Lucky Star" to 1989's "Cherish."
The 2004 Re-Invention World Tour, documented on the CD/DVD release I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, found Madonna projecting a sexy athleticism and unabashedly contemporary outlook. Madonna's career came full circle with the 2005 release of Confessions On a Dance Floor, which returned her to the dance-music realm she initially conquered with her self-titled 1983 debut album. At the same time, Madonna's lyrics and neo-psychedelic music echoed the more metaphysical territory she explored in Ray of Light. Wherever her muse takes her in the future is anybody's guess—and that is half the fun of following Madonna.
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APWA: American Public Works Association
Aquifer: An underground area that contains fresh water in sufficient amounts to yield useful quantities to wells and springs.
Artificial Wetlands: Wetlands that are artificially created, often as part of a water treatment facility.
Basin: A hydrologic unit consisting of a part of the surface of the Earth covered by a drainage system consisting of a surface stream or body of impounded surface water plus all tributaries.
Berm: An earthen mound used to direct the flow of runoff around or through a structure.
Best Management Practices (BMPs): Activities or structural improvements that help reduce the quantity and improve the quality of storm water runoff. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.
Bioretention: A water quality practice that utilizes landscaping and soils to treat urban storm water runoff by collecting it in shallow depressions. It then filters the runoff through a fabricated planting soil media.
Buffer Strip or Zone: Strips of trees, grass or other erosion resistant vegetation located between a waterway and an area of more intensive land use.
Catch Basin: An entryway to the storm drain system, usually located at street corners.
Culvert: A short, closed (covered) conduit or pipe that passes storm water runoff under an embankment, usually a roadway.
CWA: The Clean Water Act
Detention Pond: A storm water system that delays the downstream progress of storm water runoff in a controlled manner. This is typically accomplished using temporary storage areas and a metered outlet device. (As opposed to a less common Retention pond)
Dike: An embankment used to confine or control water. Dikes are often built along the banks of a river to prevent overflow; a levee.
Discharge: The volume of water and suspended sediment of surface water, that passes a given location within a given period of time. Rivers are usually measured in Cubic Feet Per Second (CFS). Storm water discharge can be measured in gallons per minute (GPS).
Drip Guard: A device used to prevent drips of fuel or corrosive or reactive chemicals from contacting other materials or areas.
Ecosystem: An ecological community and its environment interacting and functioning as a unit.
Erosion: When land is diminished or worn away due to wind, water or glacial ice. Often the eroded debris (silt or sediment) becomes a pollutant via storm water runoff. Erosion occurs naturally, but can be intensified by land clearing activities such as farming, development, road building and timber harvesting.
Eutrophication: Excessive levels of phosphorous, nitrogen, and nutrients in the water, which leads to a decrease in oxygen levels. Often characterized by excessive growth of algae and aquatic vegetation, which often results in deteriorated water quality and beach closings.
Filter Fabric: A textile of relatively small mesh that is used to allow water to pass through, while keeping sediment out (permeable) or prevent both runoff and sediment from passing through (impermeable).
Filter Strip: A long, narrow portion of vegetation used to retard water flow and collect sediment for the protection of watercourses, reservoirs, or adjacent properties.
Flash Flood: A sudden, violent flood after heavy rain.
Flood: A temporary rise in flow or stage of any watercourse or storm water conveyance system that results in storm water runoff exceeding its normal flow boundaries and inundating adjacent, normally dry areas.
Flood Control: The specific regulations and practices that reduce or prevent the damage caused by storm water runoff.
Floodplain: Any land area susceptible to inundation by storm water from any source.
Flow meter: A gauge that shows the speed of water moving through a conveyance.
Free Groundwater: Unconfined groundwater whose upper surface is a free water table.
General Permit: A permit issued under the NPDES program to cover a certain class or category of storm water discharges. These permits reduce the administrative burden of permitting storm water discharges.
Grading: The cutting and/or filling of the land surface to a desired slope or elevation.
Groundwater: That portion of the water beneath the surface of the Earth that can be collected with wells, tunnels, or drainage galleries, or that flow naturally to the Earth's surface via seeps or springs.
Holding Pond: A pond or reservoir, usually made of earth, built to store polluted runoff for a limited time. (Detention Basin)
Illicit Connection: Any discharge to a municipal separate storm sewer that is not composed entirely of storm water, and is not authorized by an NPDES permit, or is not due to fire fighting activates.
Infiltration: The penetration of water through the ground surface into sub-surface soil or the penetration of water from the soil into sewer or other pipes through defective joints, connections, or manhole wells.
Inlet: An entrance into a ditch, storm sewer or other waterway.
Karst: Topography characterized by regions of carbonaceous rock formations typified by limestone caverns and sinkholes.
Lagoon: A shallow pond where sunlight, bacterial action and oxygen work to purify wastewater.
Large Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4): A storm sewer system located in an area serving a population of 250,000 or more, as determined by the latest U.S. Census. Comprising multiple conveyance systems, including ditches, that transfers storm water from impervious surfaces to streams.
Material Storage Area: On-site location where raw materials, final products, by-products or waste materials are stored.
Medium Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4): A storm sewer system located in an area serving a population 100,000 or more but less than 250,000, as determined by the latest U.S. Census. Comprising multiple conveyance systems, including ditches, that transfers storm water from impervious surfaces to streams.
Monitoring Well: A non-pumping well used for drawing water quality samples.
Non-Point Source (NPS) Pollutants: Pollutants from many diffuse sources. Rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground causes NPS pollution. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters and even our underground sources of drinking water.
Notice of Intent (NOI): An application to notify the permitting authority of a facility's intention to be covered by a general permit; exempts a facility from having to submit an individual or group application.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES): The name of the surface water quality program authorized by Congress as part of the 1987 Clean Water Act. This is EPA's program to control the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States.
Oil/Grease Traps: Devices that collect oil and grease, removing them from water flows.
Oil Sheen: A thin, glistening layer of oil on the surface of water.
Oil/Water Separator: A device installed (usually at the entrance to a drain) which removes oil and grease from water entering the drain.
Outfall: The point where wastewater or drainage discharges from a sewer pipe, ditch or other conveyance to a receiving body of water.
Permeability: The characteristic of soil that allows water or air to move through it. Usually described in inches/hours or inches/day.
Permit Issuing Authority (Permitting Authority): The state agency or EPA regional office that issues environmental permits to regulated facilities.
Phyto-Filtration: Using plants and trees to filter impurities or excessive levels of nutrient from water.
Plunge Pool: A basin used to slow flowing water. The pool may be protected from erosion by various lining materials.
Point Source Pollutant: Pollutants from a single, identifiable source such as a factory, refinery or place of business.
Pollutant Loading: The total quantity of pollutants in storm water runoff. Total Daily Maximum Loading (TMDL) is the limiting of pollutant loading into a body of water, such as a lake or river.
Recharge: Re-supplying of water to the aquifer. Recharge generally comes from snowmelt and storm water runoff.
Residual: The amount of pollutant that remains in the environment after a natural or technological process has taken place, such as the particulates remaining in air after passing through a scrubber.
Retention: A process that halts the downstream progress of storm water runoff. This is typically accomplished using total containment involving the creation of storage areas that use infiltration devices, such as dry wells, to dispose of stored storm water via percolation over a specified period of time. (As opposed to a more common Detention Pond)
Riparian: Of, or pertaining to, rivers/streams and their banks.
Runoff: Drainage or flood discharge that leaves an area as surface flow or as pipeline flow has reached a channel or pipeline by either surface or sub-surface routes.
Sanitary Sewer: A system of underground pipes that carries sanitary waste or process wastewater to a treatment plant.
Secondary Containment: Structures, usually dikes or berms, surrounding tanks or other storage containers to catch spilled material.
Sediment/Silt: Soil, sand and materials washed from land into water, usually after rain. Sediment can destroy fish-nesting areas, clog animal habitats, and cloud water so that sunlight does not reach aquatic plants.
Sediment Trap: A device for removing sediment from water flows, usually installed at points of outflow.
Sedimentation: The process of depositing soil, clay, sand or other sediments that were moved by the flow of water.
Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4): A storm sewer system located in an area serving a population less than 100,000, as determined by the latest U.S. Census. Comprising multiple conveyance systems, including ditches, that transfers storm water from impervious surfaces to streams.
Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan (SPCC): Plans to prevent and respond to spills of hazardous substances as defined in the Clean Water Act.
Storm Drain: A slotted opening leading to an underground pipe or an open ditch carrying surface runoff. These lead directly to streams and do not go through a treatment or processing plant.
Storm Water: Precipitation from a storm event that flows quickly into streams or accumulates in natural or constructed storage systems. Storm water often includes pollutants and sediment from land surfaces.
Storm Water Facilities: Systems such as watercourses, constructed channels, storm drains, culverts, and detention/retention facilities that are used for the conveyance and/or storage of storm water runoff.
Storm Water Management: Functions associated with planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, financing and regulating the facilities (both constructed and natural) that collect, store, control and/or convey storm water.
Storm Water System: The entire assemblage of storm water facilities located within a watershed.
Storm Sewer Utility: A means of establishing a dedicated and reliable source of revenue based on user fees, rather than taxes, to help solve storm water management problems. This steady revenue source ensures that funds will be available to support a local storm water management program.
Sump: A pit or tank that catches liquid runoff for drainage or disposal.
Surface Water: Water that remains on the surface of the ground, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs, streams, wetlands, impoundments, seas, estuaries, etc.
Swale: A low lying or depressed, at least seasonally, wet stretch of land. Often lined with grass (grassy swale) and used as a conveyance for storm water.
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL): a tool for establishing the allowable loadings of a given pollutant in a surface water resource to meet predetermined water quality standards.
Transferable Development Rights (TDR): A form of incentive for developers in which the developer purchases the rights to an undeveloped or underdeveloped piece of property in exchange for the right to increase the number of dwelling units on another site. Often used to concentrate development density in certain land areas.
Underground Storage Tanks (UST's): Storage tanks that have at least 10% of their storage capacity underground.
Urban Runoff: Storm water from urban areas, which tends to contain heavy concentrations of pollutants from vehicles and industry.
Watercourse: A lake, stream, creek, channel, storm water conveyance system, or other topographic feature, over which storm waters flow at least periodically.
Watershed: That geographical area which drains to a specified point on a water course, usually a confluence of streams or rivers (also known as drainage area, catchment or river basin)
Wetlands: Land with a wet, spongy soil, where the water table is at or above the land surface for at least part of the year. Wetlands are characterized by a prevalence of vegetation that is adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Examples include swamps, bogs, fens, marshes, and estuaries.
Wet Weather Flows: Water entering storm drains during rainstorms.


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Lenovo is providing a basic non-customized, region-independent release of Android 4.03 aka Ice Cream Sandwich for customers who wish to install this OS on their IdeaPad K1 Tablet systems.This release differs from the factory-installed Honeycomb 3.1 release and subsequent OTA (Over The Air) updates to Honeycomb 3.2, and it does not include Lenovo customizations such as the launcher, pre-installed Apps or an App store, nor the underlying framework.
Installation of this release will erase ALL data on the system including all factory Apps as well as any customer installed applications, music, pictures, etc.This release is generally not recommended for the casual or mainstream user who is unfamiliar with the Android OS and customizing it. The source code, which may be of additional value to the developer community, is available for download here. Further OTA updates are not planned for this release.The installation process involves downloading the file package to a Windows PC, putting the tablet into recovery mode and connecting to the PC (we recommend Windows 7) and then flashing the update to the tablet. Some provisional drivers may need to be installed on the PC to facilitate this—they are included in the package.
Please download and review the instructions in the PDF file attached to this article, and then proceed with the download of the K1 ICS package here.
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Thank you, Mark, and Lenovo Engineers.
yes, thanks for the update
Mark, in the official ROM are an error, i cant see the external sd? its only me ?
I've got a virus alert with the zip file!!!
I informed Mark but until then, everyone should check his computer.
Looking into the SD card concern.
Will check on this as well... thanks for the advisory.
YAY thank you for the update Mark, especially for putting up with that thread. I'm happy you guys decided to at least release the Vanilla build
Why didn't you include Google Play Store support?..
Can you guys also Put out the Honeycomb firmware if people want to go back?...
OK I installed, Looks great but no Play Store, No way to log into Google account. Very dead in the water. Fix these two or show me how as searching is getting me nowhere. Pretty upset as rely on this for many things.
I explained in the thread why no google in the image. For an OEM to include, we have regionalized images and these (for us) are controlled through OTA keyed to the particular regional preloaded image.. We didn't plan to do multiple images, so could not include Google. Since it was 1 image and Vanilla, we didn't want to push as an OTA that people would just grab and apply. Some of these factors are due to decisions made relatively late in the K1 lifecycle, and I agree that this is not the best fit for all users - I've tried to provide that guidance in the notes above.
We've scanned the image and believe this is probably a false positive from your AV program.
I note that you and one other person (so far) report trouble with SD card. I see another person said they had to reboot / remount before it worked. We tested on a K1 here today and were able to use it with our image.
Not sure what else to advise, but will watch the discussion. Let's continue debugging in a dedicated forum thread.
Remaining comments moved to discussion board as Mark requested. They can be found in this thread
kaschemme, we scan files before uploading to server to prevent servers being corrupted. In regard to your virus alert, I have actually tried Symantec and Avast to scan the K1 ICS zip file but no virus alert found. Did you try with other free virus software? It could be like Mark mentioned false positive.
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All customers on Gulf Air may request a special meal to suit their dietary requirements from the list below. Orders should be placed at least 24 hours prior to travel.
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|Zone 1
|Baby Meal - BBML
|Pureed fruits, vegetables, meats, desserts suitable for infants.
|Bland Meal - BLML
|For those who need to avoid spicy food, this option will include lightly poached or steamed poultry or fish together with fresh vegetables.
|Child Meal - CHML
|Attractive, bite-size items are supplied, nutritionally balanced and avoiding ingredients that could upset a child's digestion.
|Diabetic - DBML
|A meal low in fat but relatively high in unrefined carbohydrates, consisting of lean meat, fresh vegetables and pasta or rice.
|Fruit Platter - FPML
|Freshly prepared fruits - oranges, apple, melon, pineapple, grapes, figs, strawberries etc.
|Gluten Intolerant - GFML
|Foods such as bread, cakes, pastries and pies will not be served, although gluten free bread is offered.
|Hindu - HNML
|Beef and veal products are avoided in these meals, which will be prepared using lamb, chicken and other meats, enhanced by the use of spices.
|Low Calorie - LCML
|A balanced portion of protein is provided by a lean meat or fish entrée, supported with pasta or rice and wholemeal bread.
|Low Fat - LFML
|No fatty or fried foods are served, and lean meat, white beans, pulses and fresh vegetables are among the principal ingredients.
|Low Lactose - NLML
|Excluding dairy products and processed foods, ingredients here major on fresh meat, fish and poultry together with fresh vegetables and fruits.
|Low Sodium (Salt) - LSML
|Avoiding most processed food products, including bread, this meal may consist of meat, poultry or fish, flavoured with herbs and spices to compensate for the lack of salt flavouring.
|Moslem Meal - MOML
|All food on Gulf Air-operated flights is ''halal' and there is no need to request a Moslem meal.
|Raw Vegetable - RVML
|Suitable for vegetarians who require only a combination of raw fruits & vegetables.
|Vegetarian (Hindu) - AVML
|Cheese, dairy products, fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices constitute the major ingredients used here, avoiding meat, poultry, shellfish and fish.
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Little Box of Treasures
While working with animatronics and props I would find myself emptying the pockets of my work clothes at the end of the day to find scraps of that day's work. I decided to keep some of this stuff in a box so years later I could remember the variety of materials I once used.
Humor me as I share what might look like a pile of garbage. For me, this garbage represents a whole lot of theme park ingenuity and memories of getting my hands dirty early, early in the morning...
Pieces of Brer Frog's pipe stem made of surgical tubing, covered in fabric tape and painted to look like bamboo. Good ol' Brer Frog had the habit of smacking himself in the face with his previous, unforgiving, rigid pipe. Speaking of smacks... Doesn't Brer Frog look a lot like the Sugar Smacks frog??
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea plants. We would find these in the dirt after they filled in the lagoon. I imagine there are still colorful plastic plants like this out there today. Thank goodness they tore out that "too-expensive-to-keep-alive" ride. << I'll explain my theory one day on how this is NOT so accurate. Sometimes at night after they closed 20K I'd walk the catwalks in the caves only to pee my pants (figuratively) ever time. So dark and damp and drippy- not to mention all the sea creatures sticking out of the dirty, half-drained water.
A genuine real piece of Walt Disney's backyard Carolwood Pacific train tracks! Given to me by a man who worked on site at Walt's Holmby Hill home in Los Angeles. I like it because Walt himself played around with this stuff-- unlike a lot of park props.
Butyrate, skin, etc. from Pirate animatronics.
Coins from the Frontierland Shootin' Arcade. Some coins were thrown out during a rehab we worked on. Why is the Genie from Aladdin on them?? Don't ask me. Fortunately the character artwork on the coins is not visible to guests, right? It's Frontierland after all.
A piece of George Washington's Hall of Presidents hands. We'd pull a rough hand skin from the mold, "butter" it up (trim and add detail with a flat metal tip on the end of a torch), paint, and install. Always enjoyed that.
We would remove hair and beards from Haunted Mansion ballroom ghosts once they lost their bright white shine. Darker hair is much harder to see from the Doom Buggies. I'll leave it to you to figure that one out.
Skin-like rubbery old paint would come off in large pieces. Head skins too needed to be bright in color for the illusion to work. The green rubber came from the old attic bride, I believe.
Madame Leota and Little Leota share similar projected effects. Old portions of film would be thrown out when worn. Above you see film from both Leotas.
In the Carousel of Progress 8mm film runs footage of a boxing match- projected from the basement below. Remember the grandma exclaiming "Give'm a left you big lug!"
How in the world did a Mad Hatter nose end up in the box? Don't ask me. I believe the smelly thing was given to me for some reason. Still stinks all these years later.
Spectro Magic lights. Remember when Main Street Electrical Parade retired "forever" the first time and they sold light bulbs for $35?? Well these ain't those. Am I the only one who never loved Spectro but always loved the Main Street Electrical Parade?
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The Read Option Is So 2012
How the 49ers Outsmarted the Packers on Sunday
When an NFL team finds a scheme that works, its philosophy is usually to keep using that scheme over and over until it stops working. That is what makes recent decisions by San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh seem completely insane: He overhauled a strategy that put him in the Super Bowl seven months ago.
The Green Bay Packers, the 49ers' opponent on Sunday, boasted to anyone who would listen this off-season that they were ready for the "read option," the run-heavy type of offense that involves a quarterback running the ball or handing off to a running back depending on how the quarterback reads particular defensive players. The tactic became a specialty for Harbaugh and his speedy quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who ran for 181 yards in a win over the Packers in last year's playoffs and looked, frankly, unstoppable in the read-option offense.
So, naturally, Harbaugh abandoned the read option on Sunday, and his team again beat the Packers, 34-28. "The Packers spent an off-season preparing for one thing," said former 49ers defensive end Dennis Brown, now a TV analyst for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. "And you could tell they were waiting for it, waiting for it, waiting for it all day and it never came. They spent all day waiting for Kaepernick to turn that corner and run."
With Green Bay afraid of the run, the 49ers took to the air. Kaepernick threw the ball a career-high 39 times for 412 yards, 110 more than his career yardage high. Their plan was simple: "Some of the ways they were playing was to stop the run. And we passed," Harbaugh said Monday afternoon. "We're changing things pretty constantly."
Said running back Frank Gore: "I'm just happy we put on film that we can do whatever we want."
The strategy was on full display with 13:26 left in the third quarter, when San Francisco faced third-and-9 with the game tied at 14. With the Packers playing just one lineman with his hand on the ground, it was clear Green Bay didn't intend to put much pressure on Kaepernick. Once the ball was snapped, Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, who feasts on quarterbacks, barely moved, staying about five yards from the line of scrimmage in a position to follow Kaepernick once he started running.
The Packers were left with only three players rushing the quarterback, leaving a comedic image in which two of San Francisco's five linemen were unoccupied. Kaepernick could have made a glass of lemonade with the time he had to throw as the rest of the Packers kept their distance, and he hit Anquan Boldin for a 22-yard pass. The 49ers scored a touchdown on the drive.
Brown said 49ers coaches had hinted the offense would change, but since the team's starters rarely played in the preseason, the full extent of it wasn't known. "This falls right in line with Harbaugh. He's bold," he said. "They said, 'OK, you load the box, you give two-man [safety] coverage and we'll drop it into Boldin behind the linebackers.'"
San Francisco's tinkering wouldn't have worked without some clever adjustments. For one, the team ran many of the same formations used in its run game and simply tweaked them for the pass.
This has often been a problem for the 49ers. League observers said the team's weakness last year was that it could be predictable in certain formations. It got so bad that one team executive said that during the Super Bowl, which San Francisco lost to the Baltimore Ravens, he was able to impress fellow spectators by guessing each 49er play call before it happened. When safety Craig Dahl moved from the St. Louis Rams to the 49ers, he told reporters that the Rams knew how the 49ers "tip" their plays based on how they lined up.
On Sunday, the 49ers attacked this conventional wisdom. They ran a handful of plays in the same "pistol" formation, where one running back lines up behind Kaepernick and a fullback or tight end lines up diagonally in front of him.
Instead of tipping their plays from the formation, the 49ers instead put on a master class of diverse play-calling. On the team's last four drives alone, the 49ers ran the backfield formation 11 times and featured two passes to a wide receiver, four running-back runs, two passes to a tight end, two spontaneous quarterback scrambles and a pass to the fullback.
The assortment of play-calling out of this formation was capped off with a game-sealing fourth-down conversion with 3:00 left—a 15-yard pass to Boldin. The whole afternoon had come full circle as the Packers finally brought pressure on Kaepernick, who by this point had firmly established himself as pass-happy.
Kaepernick rolled to his right and Matthews, finally blitzing, couldn't cross the field in time to reach him. The confusion, which caused the Packers to switch assignments just before the snap, inexplicably put Boldin (who finished with 208 receiving yards) in single coverage with safety Tramon Williams, who spent more time watching the quarterback than his receiver.
Perhaps he thought Kaepernick was going to run.
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Thanks, mine came from a brick and mortar auction, with the original owner's Africa Star and Italy Star, as well as generic WWII Combatant medals.
It was totally original, and non-working, but Andy at Timeworld Services sorted it out for me, and it runs great now. We did no polishing whatsoever, and even kept the original crystal, which is ever-so-slightly crazed from certain angles, and adds to the golden hue of the numerals, but is otherwise fine.
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Picard's mother, the daughter of a medical doctor, was put in an extremely difficult position when her husband died. As well as Émile, she had a second young son, and in order to support them through their education she had to find employment. Only her determination to give her sons a good start, despite the tragedy, allowed Émile to receive the education which gave him the chance to achieve the highest international stading in mathematics. Picard's secondary education was at the Lycée Napoléon, later called the Lycée Henri IV. Strangely he was a brilliant pupil at almost all his subjects, particularly in translating Greek and Latin poetry, but he disliked mathematics. He himself wrote that he hated geometry but he:-
... learned it by heart in order to avoid being punished.It was only during the vacation after completing his secondary studies that Picard read an algebra book and suddenly he became fascinated in mathematics. He took the entrance examinations for École Polytechnique and École Normale Supérieure; he was placed second and first respectively in the two examinations. Hadamard wrote in [8]:-
As any young Frenchman of our time who was gifted in science, he was obliged to choose between the École Polytechnique which, in principle, prepared one to be an engineer, and the École Normale, with its pure scientific orientation. He was ranked first and chose the latter. It is said that he made this decision after an exciting visit to Pasteur, during which the father of bacteriology spoke about pure science in such lofty terms that the young man was completely persuaded.Picard received his agrégation in 1877, being placed first. He remained at the École Normale Supérieure for a year where he was employed as an assistant. He was appointed lecturer at the University of Paris in 1878 and then professor at Toulouse in 1879. In 1881 he returned to Paris when appointed maître de conférence in mechanics and astronomy at the École Normale.
In 1881 Picard was nominated for membership of the mathematics section of the Académie des Sciences. It says much of the extraordinary ability that he was showing at such a young age that he was nominated. He had already proved two important theorems which are both today known under Picard's name, yet it was still a little soon to gain admission to the prestigious academy and he would have to wait a few more years. In this year of his first nomination he married Hermite's daughter. Picard and his wife had three children, a daughter and two sons, who were all killed in World War I. His grandsons were wounded and captured in World War II.
In 1885 Picard was appointed to the chair of differential calculus at the Sorbonne in Paris when the chair fell vacant on the death of Claude Bouquet. However a university regulation prevented anyone below the age of thirty holding a chair. The regulations were circumvented by making Picard his own suppléant until he reached the age of thirty which was in the following year. He requested exchanging his chair for that of analysis and higher algebra in 1897 so that he was able to train research students.
Picard made his most important contributions in the fields of analysis, function theory, differential equations, and analytic geometry. He used methods of successive approximation to show the existence of solutions of ordinary differential equations solving the Cauchy problem for these differential equations. Starting in 1890, he extended properties of the Laplace equation to more general elliptic equations. Picard's solution was represented in the form of a convergent series.
In 1879 he proved that an entire function which is not constant takes every value an infinite number of times, with one possible exception. Picard used the theory of Hermite's modular functions in the proof of this important result.
Building on work by Abel and Riemann, Picard's study of the integrals attached to algebraic surfaces and related topological questions developed into an important part of algebraic geometry. On this topic he published, with Georges Simart, Théorie des fonctions algébriques de deux variables indépendantes Ⓣ which was a two volume work, the first volume appearing in 1897 and the second in 1906. Picard also discovered a group, now called the Picard group, which acts as a group of transformations on a linear differential equation.
His three volume masterpiece Traité d'analyse Ⓣ was published between 1891 and 1896. The treatise [1]:-
... immediately became a classic and was revised with each subsequent edition. The work was accessible to many students through its range of subjects, clear exposition, and lucid style. Picard examined several specific cases before discussion his general theory.Picard also applied analysis to the study of elasticity, heat and electricity. He studied the transmission of electrical pulses along wires finding a beautiful solution to the problem. As can be seen his contributions were both wide ranging and important.
Among the honours given to Picard was his election to the Académie des Sciences in 1889, eight years after he was first unsuccessfully nominated. He later served the Academy as its permanent secretary from 1917 until his death in 1941. In this role [1]:-
... he wrote an annual notice on either a scientist or a subject of current interest. He also wrote many prefaces to mathematical books and participated in the publication of works of C Hermite and G H Halphen.Picard was awarded the Poncelet Prize in 1886 and the Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématiques in 1888. In addition to honorary doctorates from five universities and honorary membership of thirty-seven learned societies he received the Grande Croix de la Légion d'Honneur in 1932 and the Mittag-Leffler Gold Medal in 1937. He became a member of the Académie Française in 1924. Another honour was given to him was making him President of the International Congress of Mathematicians at Strasbourg in September 1920.
Hadamard had this to say of Picard as a teacher when he addressed him in 1937:-
You were able to make [mechanics] almost interesting; I have always wondered how you went about this, because I was never able to do it when it was my turn. But you also escaped, you introduced us not only to hydrodynamics and turbulence, but to many other theories of mathematical physics and even of infinitesimal geometry; all this in lectures, the most masterly I have heard in my opinion, where there was not one word too many nor one word too little, and where the essence of the problem and the means used to overcome it appeared crystal clear, with all secondary details treated thoroughly and at the same time consigned to their right place.Hadamard wrote in [8]:-
A striking feature of Picard's scientific personality was the perfection of his teaching, one of the most marvellous, if not the most marvellous, that I have ever known.It is a remarkable fact that between 1894 and 1937 he trained over 10000 engineers who were studying at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.
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Pair find niche in high-tech marine and residential automation jobs.
Meeting the technology demands of the super-rich and fabulously wealthy is all in a day's work for North Shore firm Liquid Automation.
The company is riding a wave of success as the go-to guys for audiovisual equipment and installation in luxury yachts and high-end homes.
And it's not just about banging in sound systems and wide-screen TVs.
Liquid Automation co-founders Stephan Goodhue, 38, and Bruce Cox, 48, say they can wire up anything from the sprinklers in the garden and bedroom blinds through to security cameras and access gates, all controlled by a touchpad or smartphone app.
A top-of-the-line automation system on the 67m superyacht Vertigo, built by West Auckland's Alloy Yachts, has netted Liquid Automation two international industry gongs this year - a Global CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design Installation Association) award for best technical design and an Australasian AVIA (Audio Visual Industry Awards) for best audiovisual application in a commercial or government installation over $500,000.
Vertigo's owner was a techno music fan so he specified a boat-wide sound system that goes from a background murmur to full nightclub volume.
Guests sit in the cockpit lounge to watch a movie on a big screen or swivel it around 180 degrees to view it from the 15-person hot tub on the deck.
Speakers and the TV in the master bedroom reorient when the owner moves from the bed to the couch.
"That sounds easy, but technically it's quite a challenge and it took a lot of programming and modelling," says Cox.
The pair started Liquid Automation, which now employs 10 people, in 2004, leaving behind careers in the marine industry to focus on providing audiovisual systems for the residential market.
Each chipped in $2000, bought a bunch of business cards and a couple of mobile phones and set about following up on some work leads.
"It was really naive to think we could just step into the residential market but through Stephan's contacts we were able to sub-contract," says Cox.
The residential market was tougher going than they imagined, and the pair often found themselves having to install equipment that wasn't right for the job. "We were trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear," Cox says.
After a month or two in business it was their old contacts in the boat building industry who were calling with offers of work.
Since then the firm's core business has been fitting out locally built superyachts, upgrading existing yacht systems and sorting out problems with poorly installed equipment.
The company prides itself on getting the right equipment, making sure it is thoroughly tested and installing it properly.
This care and attention means Liquid Automation has been labelled expensive but Cox makes no apologies for taking the time to ensure a pricey automation system works as it should.
The key to a successful job is the company's award winning documentation, says Cox, which covers the blueprint design for the job, itemises component orders, provides the detail for the programmer and tells the installer exactly where every plug and connector will go.
"We will always be more expensive but we know why. You've got to do it the right way and it takes time and money," he says.
The focus on overall value for a client rather than a cut-price option has seen Liquid Automation miss out on commercial work, which is typically tendered.
Cox says a rare exception was a law firm who took them on even though the quote for a boardroom fit-out came in as the most expensive.
"They've had the cheaper systems and what's the point in having a boardroom that people won't use the AV part of it because they can't, they don't know how or it doesn't work all the time. Where's the value in that?" he says.
While the focus for the company until last year has been on superyacht work, the closure of several boatyards has meant a change in focus.
Inquiries from residential clients prepared to pay $100,000-plus for an automation system in their multimillion-dollar homes have seen a switch back to more installations on dry land.
The company counts Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom among its clients.
Goodhue says the work for Dotcom on his New Zealand and overseas properties has been his most interesting job to date, purely for the amount of equipment controlled.
With a push of a button on one of 18 iPads, iPod touch devices or iPhones, Dotcom can power up the security system, access control, CCTV, audiovisual, lighting, heating, air conditioning and even lock off an entire wing of the house, says Goodhue.
Recruitment for a business development manager is in progress to help smooth the path into the residential market.
Cox admits neither of them is a good salesman and jobs tend to be done for those who hound them. He says the new manager will be responsible, in part, for fielding inquiries properly and ensuring clients get the service they deserve.


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