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Pombagira Interview with Pete Giles: Extremity of Varied FormsPosted in Features on April 11th, 2013 by JJ Koczan
In 2011, London-based doomers Pombagira released an album called Iconoclast Dream. It was comprised of a single, 42-minute track, but really, they should've kept the title in their pocket for the subsequent outing — because as it turns out, the latest, Maleficia Lamiah, is far more subversive. The duo's fifth LP overall, it answers the question of what comes after that single-song record, what you could possibly do after you've already pushed your sound as far is it can go? It's an issue Ufomammut tackled with last year's Oro two-parter, and their answer was to keep getting bigger, to release one album as two. For Pombagira, it wasn't going to be that easy.
The two-piece of guitarist/vocalist Pete Giles and drummer Carolyn Hamilton-Giles would keep working in extended tracks — Maleficia Lamiah has two, its title cut and the subsequent "Grave Cardinal" — but for the latest recording, they adopted a far more psychedelic context for the sound. It's not a complete reinvention, but for the first time in a career that goes as far back as when he played in Azagthoth with Napalm Death's Shane Embury in 1987, Pete uses clean singing on the songs, and the material as a result calls back to early psychedelic influences that Pombagira has adopted with striking ease as part of their aesthetic, from Maleficia Lamiah's deep-toned artwork to their promotional photos for the album, taken by Vic Singh, who also shot the cover of Pink Floyd's debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967.
And not only does Pete sing clean, but he works in an eerie falsetto depending on which of the album's movements it seems to fit. The song "Maleficia Lamiah" sprawls its just-under-19-minutes in varied movements, Carolyn's drums backing bizarro synth and cawing crows in the post-midsection after what's already been an alternatively driving and stupefying journey through the first half. What Pombagira make clear on Maleficia Lamiah more than anything is that they're unwilling to be tied to expectation — even their own — and as the title-track winds up in a tempest swirl resuming the intonation of the name of the record, the only tenet Pete and Carolyn are adhering to is that which they've created for themselves.
Given the changes in approach Maleficia Lamiah represents, there was as you might imagine a lot to talk about. In the interview that follows, Pete discusses how Maleficia Lamiah came about following Iconoclast Dream, the band's reticence toward playing live and how they're handling the inevitability of bringing the new material to a stage, how the working relationship between the duo has grown over the course of five albums, where he thinks this new direction might lead them and much more.
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The RTC Interview Series: One on One with Dave TelepPosted by rtmsf on October 29th, 2010
Rush The Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you periodically throughout the year. If you have any specific interview requests or want us to interview you, shoot us an email at email@example.com.
Scouting high school basketball players is a task that probably ranks just above weather prediction and winning trifectas at the track in terms of its certainty, but there are several folks out there who are among the best in the profession. Dave Telep, former National Recruiting Director for Scout.com and current Senior Basketball Recruiting Analyst for ESPN, is one of those guys. As a young college graduate in the mid-90s, he helped launch PrepStars before quickly rising up the ladder and developing his name at both Rivals and Scout, two of the pre-eminent recruiting services in existence today. In the intervening decade, Telep built a sterling reputation for his workhorse approach to scouting, going from game to game in state after state to see players with his own eyes so as to fairly evaluate them. He also founded Dave Telep's Carolina Challenge in 2007, a one-day camp for 80 hand-picked North Carolina high school players in who want to learn what it takes to become a top college basketball player. Some of the recruits who have attended this camp have been Duke's Mason Plumlee and former Kentucky star John Wall. The recruiting aficianado was in fact driving to a game in Virginia at the time of this interview — he never stops moving when there are players to be evaluated. You can find Telep on both Facebook and Twitter — we'd recommend you friend/follow him to stay on top of all of the latest recruiting and scouting news.
Rush the Court: Let's start with the most newsworthy item in your life right now, the move from Scout.com to ESPN. Can you tell us a little bit about how this all came about and what the plan is for the immediate future there?
Dave Telep: Yeah, you know, I could not be more thankful and more grateful for the nine years I spent with Scout.com and Fox. My contract came up for renewal this summer and ESPN presented a really unique opportunity to do some things in the recruiting world on a bunch of different media platforms. It's something where, to be honest, I've always wanted to work for ESPN. When I realized that I wasn't going to be a professional athlete around the age of twelve, I realized one of the things I wanted to do with my life was to eventually work for ESPN. It's really been a fun time for me and my family, and we're having a great time with it. We have such a really neat team of guys there from the scouts to the guys who operate the database, that it's really exciting to have so much support of a bunch of guys who are really woven into the fabric of college basketball. It's awesome!
RTC: To many in this business, getting the call from ESPN is a dream come true. Is this the Dave Telep equivalent of seeing your name at the top of a recruiting list?
DT: The cool thing for me as the father of two boys is that I can someday look at those guys and say "if there's something in your life that you really want to do, and you have the ability to, through hard work and luck and people helping you out, you can make that happen." That's been the neat thing for me with ESPN so far, just sharing and talking about it with my parents. You set these goals when you're younger, and to see one of them come to fruition on a personal level is really cool. It's not just a job for me. This is something I've always kinda had my eye on. I never knew what I would ever do at ESPN someday; I just knew that I always wanted to be around people who were excellent in their field. I knew from a young age that I would love to do that someday. This is definitely a dream come true for me.
RTC: Let's move into some scouting questions. Everyone has predictions from their career they're proud of and a few they're not quite as ready to shout from the hilltops. What are some of your most notable ones both ways?
DT: Great question. I was very excited the first time I saw Chris Paul, and I was happy to be one of the first people who spearheaded that charge. That worked out really well for me. You know, recently a couple of years ago we had DeJuan Blair in the top twenty, and the reason why I ranked Blair in the top twenty was because six or seven years before that I totally whiffed on Emeka Okafor by ranking him in the 80s. I was bound and determined that if a guy averaged as many rebounds as Blair did to not make the same mistake that we made with Okafor. I screwed up with Okafor but I'd like to think I learned something from it. Some others — I'll never forget the day I saw Adam Morrison go for 30+ in a packed gym in Las Vegas, and I totally whiffed on that one. I learned a lot from the evaluation of Stephen Curry. I watched him all through high school. I evaluated him as a low-major player, a mid-major player, and at the end of his HS career, I rated him the highest level mid-major player possible. But if I could have stuck him into the top 100, that would probably be one of my bigger regrets in not doing so. My real job is to learn from all these mistakes and try to avoid them [in the future]. You see a situation like Emeka Okafor – he averaged 18-19 RPG in high school – that is a freaky number, to be frank. Then to see Blair come around and be that same kind of a rebounding force… they're two different players, but although we screwed up Okafor it taught me a little more on the back end with Blair. When you see a guy with such a freakish skill set and such a knack for doing something extraordinary, your radar definitely goes up.
RTC: You've talked in the past about 'balancing potential with production' when evaluating prospects. Which is harder – figuring out where a prospect can top out or figuring out where he will top out?


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Franklin, 9-3, has lost in the second round game three years in a row.
Franklin took the opening kickoff, completed a pass, but QB Jonny West, the Division III leader in passing yards, was intercepted by Warhawk defensive back Brady Grayvold (Norway, MI/Norway) on the next play. UW-W took over at their own 43. UW-W quarterback Matt Behrendt(Westchester, IL/Nazareth Academy) completed six of eight passes on the Warhawks' nine play drive, capped by a nine yard toss to split end Jake Kumerow (Bartlett, IL/South Elgin) for the touchdown. Erick Kindler's kick made it 7-0 with 10:52 left in the first quarter.
Backed to their 13 by a punt, Franklin moved the ball to their own 32. The Grizzlies' punt was negated by a Warhawk penalty, continuing the drive at their 47. That drive stalled at Whitewater's 32 after two incomplete passes and a sack by UW-W defensive end Mykeall Bratchett.
After the ensuing punt rolled into the end zone, UW-W took over on its 20. The Warhawks put together an eleven play drive, highlighted by Behrendt going 4-5 and Ryan Givens (Milwaukee/Milwaukee Riverside) four rushes for 17 yards. Behrendt connected with wideout Justin Howard (West Bend/Homestead) on the final play of the drive, scoring from 14 yards out. Kindler upped the margin to 14-0 with 14:06 remaining in the half.
Franklin responded with its best drive of the first half, taking the ball from its own 24 to the Whitewater three in thirteen plays. Facing a fourth and three at the six, Franklin elected to go for the touchdown, but West's low pass to Michael Maloian was ruled incomplete.
The Warhawk offense took over and pushed the ball all the way to the Franklin six, when the Grizzllies' defense stiffened, stuffing two rushes for losses and forcing an incomplete pass. Kindler came on to boot a 29 yard field goal to make it 17-0 with 1:02 left in the half.
The half did not end quietly. A Franklin punt turned into a 63 yard return by Justin Howard (West Bend/Homestead), but Franklin retained possession on a UW-W penalty. Franklin's next play, a West pass, was intercepted by Grayvold for the second time in the half.
UW-W's defense limited the Grizzlies to 85 yards offense, including minus eight on the ground. Whitewater was hindered by five penalties for 67 yards. Tyler Huber (North Prairie/Mukwonago) caught five passes for 70 yards to lead the UW-W offense, while All-American wideout Kyle Linville joined Maloian with three catches for Franklin.
Franklin was backed up to its eight on its first drive of the second half, but a 50 pass from West to tight end Dylan Jenney moved the ball to the Whitewater 35. Four plays later Mike Woods' 46 yard field goal put Franklin on the board, trailing 17-3 with 9:34 left in the third.
Later in the period Franklin punter Michael Parks was blocked by Loussaint Minett (Whitewater/Whitewater) and recovered by Ryan Cortez(Palatine, IL/Palatine) to give UW-W possession at the Franklin 29. Behrendt tossed his third scoring pass of the game, this time for 29 yards to Kumerow, his touchdown of the day, with 4:10 left in the third quarter. Whitewater's lead stood at 23-3 after the PAT failed.
Late in the fourth quarter circumstances forced Franklin to try to convert a fourth and two at its nineteen. After UW-W stuffed the run attempt for a loss of four yards it took just four plays for Kindler to add a 35 yard field goal to his day, boosting the Whitewater lead to 26-3 with 613 on the clock.
With Franklin back on its heels in a pass only situation, West tossed a pick-six to Grayvold, who picked the ball off at the Franklin 41. Kindler made it 33-3 at 5:01. Grayvold's third interception of the game ties the school record, the fourth Warhawk to accomplish the feat and the first since Ron Riley did it in a win over Milton College in 1981. It is also the most West has thrown in a game this season.
Franklin ended with four yards rushing, the lowest total allowed by the UW-W defense this year and also the fewest Franklin has totaled. The Grizzlies' three points is their lowest output of the season. Grayvold keyed the four turnovers by the Grizzlies, their highest total this year.
Franklin limited Whitewater to 79 yards rushing, the Warhawks' lowest production of the season. On the other hand, Whitewater's 33 points is the most by a Franklin opponent this season. The Grizzlies were penalized twice for 18 yards, their lowest total of the season, and they punted three times, the fewest by a Warhawk opponent. Linville had eleven receptions for 105 yards, the most, in both categories, by a 2013 Warhawk opponent. FC linebacker Jordan Segner racked up a team season high 12 tackles.
This was the fourth meeting between UW-W and Franklin. Their first meeting came in the 2010 playoffs, with UW-W winning 52-21 in Perkins Stadium in a first round game. . The following year UW-W won a regular season meeting 45-0 at Franklin, then faced the Grizzles in the second round of the playoffs and won 41-14.
Whitewater has faced Linfield twice. In 2005 the Warhawks prevailed 44-41 at McMinnville in the third round of the NCAA III playoff. The second meeting came in the 2009 playoffs, with UW-W winning 27-17 at Perkins Stadium in a playoff semifinal.
Win Over Franklin Propels Warhawks into Third Round
|No. 20 Franklin (8-4)
|No. 5 UW-Whitewater (12-0)
Franklin, 9-3, has lost in the second round game three years in a row.


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Downtown, Seattle Travel Guide
Downtown Seattle Summary
- Activities galore, including Seattle Central Library and the Seattle Aquarium
- Pike Place Market, popular for its "three-Fs" -- flying fish, flowers, and fabulous food
- Compact enough to explore by foot
- Family-friendly sites: museums, art galleries, and theaters
- Array of dining options, from sit-down dinners to fast-food fare
- Parking is a disaster; it's difficult to find and usually expensive
- Even so-called "cheap" hotels aren't that affordable in the summertime
What It's Like
Don't let Downtown Seattle's reputation of being a commercial hub fool you; it isn't all business in this neighborhood. Home to some of the city's most popular tourist sites, including the internationally-known Pike Place Market, Downtown Seattle is the perfect part of the city to get a true taste of Seattle -- renowned coffee included.
The "Retail Core" -- a compact square of shops with brand names like Gap, Urban Outfitters, and Banana Republic -- also lies in this district. If you're more of a boutique-goer, check out high-end, eclectic options, like Betsey Johnson and Isadora's Antique Clothing Store, sprinkled throughout the district.
Downtown Seattle offers a smorgasbord of activities. To name a few: The Seattle Art Museum on 1st Avenue; The Green Room, where Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole played while passing through; and Waterfront Park on Alaskan Way. You won't go hungry here, both literally or figuratively. We promise.
Where To Stay
All the major chains are here, including the Sheraton, Grand Hyatt, Crown Plaza, as well as smaller boutique properties. If you're visiting in the summer months, don't expect to find a steal. It may be difficult to find a room for under $150 even at budget hotels during the peak season. Naturally, the closer you get to the waterfront, the higher the prices.
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Cyberchase "Mother's Day" Special Holiday Episode!" It's Mother's Day in cyberspace - and Hacker is determined to ruin it for everyone, especially Motherboard, by derailing the train that picks up the rare and colorful Madre Bonitas. This beautiful flower symbolizes Mother's Day, and it must be harvested on this one day only. It's a race against time, as the kids and Digit try to repair the breaks in the line and save Mother's Day. D
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As the 2013 South Florida FIRST Robotics Competition entered its final rounds, the roar from the crowd was intense.
After watching and hoping for the first 15 seconds of autonomous play, the high school students who had built these robots took control, aggressively piloting them around the field, pushing and blocking each other's machines while playing a sort of robotic Ultimate Frisbee game that required them to launch flying discs into goals at either end of the playing area. Finally, the robots converged on red and blue pyramids built of pipes, and they began to climb.
The three teams from the Red Alliance didn't make it beyond the first rung, but, when the buzzer sounded, the umpires verified that all three were off the floor, earning 10 bonus points each in addition to all the goals they had scored. At the end of the best two out of three rounds, the Red Alliance, comprising three Florida teams -- 2012 world champions S.P.A.M. of Stuart, Exploding Bacon of Winter Park and the Tech Tigers of Coconut Creek -- emerged victorious.
[ See our related story: Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game. ]
The event at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center on Saturday was one of dozens taking place around the country during this qualifying season. The victors of the South Florida competition will be going on to the championship scheduled for April 24-27 in St. Louis.
Although the competitions are exciting, victory has as much to do with decisions the competitors make long before they step onto the playing field.
There are ongoing rules of conduct and fair competition, but the challenge is different every year. Competitors spend the off season studying the basics of robot engineering and working on other critical functions such as fundraising. Once this year's Ultimate Ascent challenge was announced in January, teams had six weeks to complete the entire design and build of a robot that could accomplish a specific list of tasks: maneuvering, throwing and climbing. The build season includes everything from the initial sketches to machine shop work and component assembly, plus writing thousands of lines of software code. When the six weeks are up, teams are required to go "hands off" on the robots except during a competition, when their pit crews can do additional tinkering and fine tuning.
The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program started in 1992 with a 28-team event in a New Hampshire high school gym. This year's FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) event for high school students has about 2,700 teams jousting in regional competitions leading up to this year's championship in St. Louis. Although FRC is the major event, the program has expanded over the years to also include the FTC (First Tech Challenge) program for grades 7-12, FLL (First Lego League) for grades 4-8, and Jr. FLL for grades K-3.
FIRST founder Dean Kamen is best known as the inventor of the Segway but also of the Independence robotic wheelchair and other medical devices. Kamen conceived of the competition as a way to give students practical exposure to engineering challenges by pairing them with professional engineers as mentors. Teams can be organized within schools or community groups. Exploding Bacon, one of the winning teams at the South Florida competition, is a 4H Club.
Sponsors include NASA and major aerospace and technology firms, as well as community groups and companies of all sorts that support their local teams.


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Yelp Reviewers Launch Class Action Lawsuit Claiming They're 'Unpaid Employees'
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Nothing about the relationship of a Yelp reviewer to the company is anything like an employment situation (or even an intern situation). They aren't "hired." They don't have responsibilities or jobs that they have to do. They volunteer to share some reviews because they want to do so. Everyone has their own motivations for why, but the idea that it's some sort of unpaid employment situation is ludicrous. The entire argument seems to hinge on the idea that Yelp gets value out of their reviews. Well, duh. But that doesn't make it an employment situation at all. The lawsuit is also littered with out of context snipes at Yelp for other aspects of its business which have absolutely nothing to do with the legal questions in play. Part of the argument, believe it or not, is that Yelp "instructed" these "unpaid employees" to do more work... because it had policies associated with its various gamification mechanisms to encourage them to write more. For example, Yelp has long had a "Yelp Elite" status, but if you're not contributing lots of reviews, you can lose that status. But, again, all of that is voluntary and is no different than tons of sites with gamification/badges for activity. To argue that constitutes an employment relationship is simply laughable.
It appears that at least some of the plaintiffs are pissed off because, at some point, Yelp cancelled their accounts based on "flimsy explanations." But, that seems to work against their own arguments. If these folks were really so "exploited" by Yelp, and "forced" to write for no money... then, um, why are they so upset that they "lost" that "job"? The best the lawsuit can offer up (and I'm not joking) is that the "cult-like rewards and disciplines" associated with the gamification drove people to continue to "work" for free.
Once again, this seems like the sort of class action lawsuit that gives class action lawyers a bad name. Find a company that is making a lot of money and come up with some absolutely ridiculous reason for suing. Even in the ridiculously unlikely chance that this lawsuit goes anywhere, the only ones who will benefit are the class action lawyers.


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In March 2013, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, citing the progress of North Korea's nuclear program, announced that the United States would be bolstering its missile defenses. Fourteen new ground-based interceptor missiles, known as GBIs, would be deployed to Alaska, augmenting the thirty already in silos there and in California. The Pentagon would develop a new two-stage GBI, as well as a more advanced version of the "kill vehicle," which interceptors carry to smash into adversary warheads ("hit-to-kill"). The Obama administration would be deploying a second advanced mobile radar system, the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance 2, in Japan. And Hagel even indicated that the administration would restructure its plans for US missile defenses in Europe, canceling the SM-3 IIB interceptor, the cornerstone of the fourth and final phase of its European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA), which had been announced in 2009 as a means of deploying more-advanced interceptors in Eastern and Central Europe specifically designed to defend the US homeland from intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from Europe, Eurasia, or the Middle East.
Hagel's announcement came in the middle of a steady buildup of the size and capability of ballistic missiles among states antagonistic to the US and its allies. More than thirty countries already have acquired, or are acquiring, short- and medium-range missiles able to deliver conventional payloads at great speed and distance. Some are trying to develop longer-range missiles that can carry warheads armed with various weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological), seeing these as cheaper, easier to maintain, and often more effective strike weapons than manned aircraft. The most immediate missile threats to the West come from Iran and North Korea. US government experts believe that either or both of these countries might have an intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting a target in North America within the next few years.
Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the United States has employed a variety of tools to address this possibility—multilateral diplomacy and bilateral negotiations, economic sanctions and inducements, warnings against developing these capabilities, and threats of retaliation for their use. It has reinforced these measures by constructing missile defense architectures around the world, including short-range missile defense systems such as surface-to-air batteries, theater defenses such as Aegis-equipped naval vessels and ground-based systems capable of targeting midrange missiles, and the ground-based midcourse interceptors based in Alaska and California.
The main difference between Obama's policies and those of Bush is that the current administration has deemphasized near-term efforts to develop and apply new ballistic missile defense technologies, such as space- or airborne-based lasers and two-stage GBIs that could conduct an early intercept of an Iranian ICBM, and instead has sought to build on proven existing technologies such as the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, designed for countering attacking missiles in their terminal (or final attack) phase, and the family of combination Aegis SM-3 midcourse interceptors currently used by the US Navy. Of the six main ballistic missile defense programs inherited from its predecessor, the Obama administration has expanded some and restructured or cut others. It cancelled the Kinetic Energy Interceptor program because of high costs and the Airborne Laser program in February because of technological challenges as well as cost. (Yet while the US is no longer developing these directed-energy weapons, which use lasers to heat the metal skin of a long-range ballistic missile until it ruptures and disintegrates, it has built systems that can use lasers against unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles, while researching how direct energy could assist with discriminating between warheads and decoys, a difficult discrimination problem.)
Another weapon the United States lacks at the moment is an operational early interceptor, designed to attack an enemy missile in its boost or ascent phrase, when the rocket has ceased burning but the missile is still gaining altitude and when it is most vulnerable to attack. Previous attempts to build such weapons interceptors failed because of their immature technologies (lasers and rapidly accelerating interceptors that can compute an interception solution even before the missile goes ballistic), impractical operational concepts (the interceptors would have to be located on land near the enemy launch site), and exorbitant costs. Some defense strategists have suggested the development of a high-speed, two-stage, hit-to-kill interceptor missile, launched from a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles, but for now the main protection of the US homeland from missile attack comes from the GBI and Aegis SM-3 systems.
Thus the new moves Hagel announced may provide the incremental enhancements needed to match a potential adversary's missile capabilities, notably those of North Korea, but the margin for error is still small—adversaries may make unexpectedly rapid progress or the defenses may suffer unanticipated technological setbacks. To reduce the risks of an offense-defense gap arising, America's best option for the next few years would be to continue improving its two midcourse defense systems—ground-based interceptors on US territory and mobile, sea-based ones—and make greater use of enhanced variants of the sea-based interceptor, the SM-3, as a hedge against the continued development and reliability problems with the GBIs in Alaska and California. This structure, supplemented by the construction of an advanced missile defense radar in the northeast United States, would create a layered defense to better protect the US homeland, especially in light of the cancellation of the final phase of EPAA. The US should also continue to pursue as well as fund new technologies (such as direct-energy weapons) that can broaden its defensive capabilities.
The GBIs deployed in Alaska and California are three-stage, solid-fueled boosters with an exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), which separates from its booster and uses the kinetic energy from colliding with the re-entry vehicle or warhead to destroy it. Once released from the booster, the EKV uses guidance transmitted to it and from its own onboard sensors to collide with the target above the Earth's atmosphere.
The Bush administration had intended to deploy GBIs in Poland to attempt an early intercept of Iranian ICBMs launched toward the United States. The Obama administration canceled this move in 2009, when intelligence concluded that Iran was making less than expected progress in developing ICBMs, but the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency has recently resumed flight-testing a two-stage GBI that could be deployed closer to potential missile threats from Northeast Asia or the Middle East.
The other US midcourse interceptor is the Navy's ship-based Aegis SM-3 combination, which builds on the Navy's Standard Missile, the Aegis radar system, and the Pentagon's command, communication, and control systems. The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMD) can defeat short- to intermediate-range, midcourse-phase ballistic missile threats, either unitary or separating, as well as short-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase. The SM-3 consists of a kill vehicle attached to a three-stage booster. It intercepts missiles, warheads, and other targets above the atmosphere in their midcourse phase of flight using a "hit-to-kill" collision in which the target is destroyed through the kinetic energy released when the EKV collides with it. The Obama administration has expanded the Aegis SM-3 system to make it the main BMD effort, especially for intercepting long-range ballistic missiles in their midcourse phase. Unlike ground-based midcourse defense weapons (GMD), the ship-based Aegis BMD system can be maneuvered and reconfigured more easily to respond to changes in the threat environment.
Missile Defense Agency and Navy plans call for deploying increasingly capable versions of the SM-3 on US warships in coming years. The next version is scheduled for deployment in 2015. It has an improved two-color infrared seeker to better identify the target (despite adversary debris and other countermeasures), an advanced signal processor to take advantage of recent upgrades to the Aegis system's capabilities, and an enhanced control system that employs short, precise propulsion bursts to adjust course as it approaches the target. It has a greater maximum velocity, a longer flight time, and is capable of attacking targets at a greater distance.
The United States and Japan have cooperated in developing certain technologies for the third SM-3 variant, with Japan funding a significant share of the effort and leading the development of the second- and third-stage rocket motors and nose cone. Its initial flight test is scheduled for 2015, with a transition for full production around 2018. In addition to the expected deployment on US and Japanese warships, the United States plans to place some of the new SM-3s in Poland and perhaps elsewhere.
The United States currently has two terminal-phase, land-based interceptors, the PAC-3 and the THAAD. The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor battery, which is used by the US Army and many US partners, builds on the proven Patriot air and missile defense infrastructure, such as the PAC-2 that the United States used during the Gulf War against Iraqi SCUDs. Whereas the PAC-2 employs blast fragmentation warheads to destroy nearby missiles and warheads, the PAC-3 relies on the more sophisticated "hit-to-kill" technology, which destroys the target through the kinetic energy generated by a midair collision.
The PAC-3 can work with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system now under development, which can intercept short- and medium-range missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach. It is presently the only interceptor in the US arsenal with the operational flexibility to intercept missiles both inside and outside of Earth's atmosphere. A THAAD battery consists of four main components: a truck-mounted launcher, eight interceptors, a radar, and a fire control system, which serves as the communication and data-management backbone linking the THAAD components together as well as to the rest of the ballistic missile defense system. The first THAAD battery was activated in 2008, the second a year later. The Missile Defense Agency hopes the third and fourth batteries will be fielded in the next two years.
A serious gap in current missile defense planning would occur if the threat of an attack against the US homeland developed more rapidly than the US technology advances needed to defend against it. The best strategy to deal with these gaps would be to focus more on improving and multiplying existing capabilities in the near term while preparing to develop significantly more capable systems over the long term. In particular, an increased reliance on Aegis and newer SM-3s would yield considerable advantages in the protection of the US homeland as well. This option would cost significantly less than developing a new system, can be made available more rapidly, uses proven technology, and does not depend on making improbable revolutionary breakthroughs.
Relying only on the US-based GBIs would be risky. This system has had a modest fifty-percent success rate in its interception tests, having destroyed incoming missiles in only seven of fourteen tests. The last time the GBIs in Alaska and California destroyed a target was in 2008. The latest version of the EVK (the "kill vehicle") failed its first two tests in January and December 2010. The Pentagon believes it has identified the reason for the failure—a fault in the guidance system—but demonstration tests are still needed to verify that the problem has been resolved. In addition to the low success rate, another concern is that most tests have not employed decoy missiles, which would likely be present in genuine attacks (either as deliberate penetration aides or simply as pieces of the rocket or other debris). In a September 2012 report, the National Research Council said that the ground-based midcourse defense system has fundamental weaknesses, including a vulnerability to counter-measures, meaning that "it will not be able to work against any but the most primitive attacks" without further upgrades and testing.
Besides technical impediments, lack of funding remains a major constraint on the development of US ballistic missile defense (BMD) capabilities. The decisions announced by Defense Secretary Hagel in March 2013 will not add new any money to US BMD programs, but will instead redirect what has already been allocated. The Missile Defense Agency is now struggling to meet the military's demands for more assets, even as the agency tries to develop new technologies to stay ahead of advances being made by likely adversaries. The number of potential hostile missiles continues to increase, as do their capabilities.
As the Obama administration emphasizes a shift toward a sea-based missile defense platform, and as China continues to develop its own anti-ship missile capabilities, the Navy also faces an ever-increasing strain. The current US Navy fleet consists of some two dozen Aegis-equipped cruisers and destroyers. These vessels have many important missions in addition to their vital defense role. The expected demand for Aegis ships will rise to more than forty in coming years, which will require the Navy to increase its baseline surface combatant inventory to more than eighty-eight vessels or reduce support for other missions. The need to increase the number of air and missile defense ships will be met by modernizing existing destroyers and cruisers, as well as restarting the production of Arleigh Burke class DDG 51 Flight IIA destroyers with BMD capabilities. Naval BMD capabilities will also be reinforced by the FY2016 construction of Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyers. These ships will potentially have new hybrid electric drive systems, electromagnetic rail guns, and solid-state air defense lasers. But until these BMD vessel capabilities are expanded, current BMD ships may experience longer deployments and shorter inter-deployment periods.
The Missile Defense Agency must also improve the United States' space-based missile-tracking capacity to defend against long-range ICBMs. And allies require BMD interceptors, thus driving up the demand for additional ordnance. The Aegis air and missile defense systems (the AN/SPY-1 and the MK99) can be found on more than one hundred warships, mostly on US Navy cruisers and destroyers, but also on seventeen allied foreign vessels. Greater efforts will be needed to integrate US and foreign missile defense capabilities in coming years.
Filling the gaps in US ballistic missile defense capabilities will inevitably force painful trade-offs between national homeland and regional defenses. The timely identification of threats is essential for their neutralization. This requires persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities at both the global and regional level. Even so, these measures can have only a limited impact. Fundamentally, numbers matter, a fact of life to bear in mind as the United States and its allies continue to develop a flexible missile defense architecture with mobile assets that can be deployed in other theaters in an emergency, while also providing a homeland defense network that can be augmented and upgraded as the threat evolves.
Richard Weitz is the director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Political-Military Analysis.


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Hi there!, I've been doing some Umineko Illustrations, a set where i'm going to depict every human Ushiromiya in pairs. This were the first, Beato & Battler and Shannon & Kanon. Tell me, what do you think?
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*looks around empty forum* No love for Umineko Day (10/4)? Ah well, I guess I may as well post what I've been working on.
I've started on a Umineko PV for the Vocaloid song Justice Breaker. I heard it a while back and it reminded me of EP7. (Except for all the "watashi"s and "kimi"s - Will don't talk like that.) But the general message of "Stop whining, stand up, life is what you make it," fit to me... However this is all assuming I interpreted the song correctly...
It's really, really rough right now, and I'm no artist (No, really. I don't draw at all.), but I couldn't resist giving it a shot. And it's been fun! But I'm exhausted. It's taken me forever to do this much already.
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Also - semi relevant - uu uu, look at what Mama got me today!
It's a cake pop shaped like a pumpkin. We went to a bakery today for the heck of it and I asked my mom for one. She can be the BEST MOM EVER sometimes. No, she didn't hit me. Sorry for the bad image quality - all I have is this webcam.
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Did another vector recreation of Umineko. This time the manga's Yasu.
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I didn't really know what to use for colors tho. So if someone suggests other colors, it's a quite simple matter to modify it then for me.
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"hehehehehe! take that my siblings. Hmm? what time is it? WHAT 23:59???? FUUUUUUUUUU!"
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I posted this over in the Higurashi forum but I thought I'd share it here as well.
I'm currently reading the Higurashi VN decided to flip through the RAWs of the manga while I was at it. As I'm reading along, I noticed a certain familiar face…I thought it might be a coincidence at first until I realized it wasn't just his appearance, but his name as well. The artist of the manga decided to make a certain bodyguard appear as Hibari 13, one of the Yamainu who fights the club members in Matsuribayashi-hen - Amakusa (because Hibari 13, and Juuza = 十三 = 13).
Considering Amakusa's past military history included working for the Self-Defense Force and he's loyal to Okonogi (who is almost definitely the same Okonogi from Higurashi), I thought this was absolutely brilliant of the manga artist and adds some nice - and very plausible - backstory to the character. I couldn't resist my desire to translate these pages, since the Matsuribayashi-hen scanlation project will probably never be finished, AND the official English releases aren't even this far yet. This is from Vol. 7 of the Higurashi Matsuribayashi-hen manga, during the battle between the club members and the Yamainu on the mountain.
Since I can't read kanji, the way I'm doing this is to read the furigana and romanize how the sentence is read. Then, I punch those words into Tangorin and find the ones that match the kanji in the panels. Then it's a combination of Google Translate, my memory of the way the scene played out in the VN, and common sense of the English language to put it all together. So, forgive me if the translation isn't perfect - I just thought this was an interesting scene that both Higurashi and Umineko fans would appreciate, and wanted to share.
My translation notes can be found here. Let me know if I got anything wrong and I'll be happy to fix it.
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Innovative programme brings pre-school education to the most vulnerable
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Child-to-child programme offers education in rural Bangladesh
To watch a new UNICEF video on education in emergencies and post-crisis transition, entitled "Innovative programme brings pre-school education to the most vulnerable," please click here!
This video is about an innovative new UNICEF-supported programme in Bangladesh, called 'Getting Ready for School: a Child-to-Child Approach', that aims to prepare children, both emotionally and academically, to go to primary school. This programme provides supplementary and cost-effective early learning to the most vulnerable and builds on the natural phenomenon of younger children learning from older children.


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An upstate New York hotel's policy threatening to fine wedding parties for posting negative reviews online sparked massive backlash Monday, leading to hundreds of one-star reviews on sites such as Facebook and Yelp.
The New York Post reports that the Union Street Guest House in Hudson told couples and other people booking large events that they would be charged $500 for each bad review posted by guests after their stays.
The policy was removed from the Union Street Guest House's website Monday, but not before garnering the ire of Yelp and Facebook users, who flocked to the hotel's pages to post negative reviews.
"They say there is no such thing as bad press. Union Street Guest House will have to let us know if that is true," wrote one reviewer who rated the hotel one out of five stars. "Next time they should consider treating their guests as guests and not tenants in a rent control."
Another faux guest gave the hotel a one-star review, writing, "Just spent several seconds of my busy day remembering my Yelp password so I could add my voice to the chorus of those outraged by such a ridiculous policy."
The hotel said in a statement to CNBC Monday that the fine was meant to be a joke and was never actually enforced.
"The policy concerning the wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago," the hotel said in a written statement. "It was meant to be taken down a long time ago and was certainly never enforced."
One Yelp user, Rabith Z., posted a review in November of 2013 that appeared to contradict the Union Street Guest House's statement. The user wrote that the hotel emailed him twice, threatening to fine his wedding party if he didn't delete a negative review.


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LIMITED RIGHT OF RETURN: The items sold at our Private Auctions are sold as is, where is and may not be returned for any reason with the following limited exceptions: (a) If an item is noted in the listing as being Original (and only if it contains the language "All Original in our Opinion"), the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC will accept the return of the same and actual item within one year of the date of the auction it the item's originality has been questioned provided that: (i) the name(s) and full address(es) of any and all person(s) questioning the item's originality, other than that of the purchaser, is provided to the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC at the time of the return; (ii) the same item is in the same condition as it was in at the time it was auctioned by AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC; (iii) the purchaser is not currently in default of any contractual obligation to AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC; AmbroseBauer Trains; Drew J. Bauer; and/or Paul V. Ambrose at the time of the return; and (iv) the purchaser is entitled to currently bid on items being offered by the user names "drew_bauer", "ambrosebauer_trains" and "ambrosebauer_auctions" at the time of the return. There has to be a good faith basis for questioning the originality of an item as well as a substantial basis for such a challenge. The good faith basis shall be determined solely by the determination of the Attorney. Upon receipt of such a qualified return, the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC shall either correct the issue or refund the amount of the bid, any buyer's premium paid, and any shipping incurred on the item's return to the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC to the purchaser within thirty days of said return. The Mechanical Operation of an Item, Screws, Small Parts, Wires and Minor Mechanical Items are not covered by any limited guarantee of originality issued by the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC and any questions or issues arising from such items may not establish a right to return any item within the provisions of this limited return policy. (b) If an item is noted in the listing as being a specific variation, a specific model, or from a specific manufacturer, the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC will accept the return of the same and actual item within one year of the date of the auction it the item's description has been questioned provided that: (i) the name(s) and full address(es) of any and all person(s) questioning the item's description, other than that of the purchaser is provided to the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC at the time of the return; (ii) the same item is in the same condition as it was in at the time it was auctioned by the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC; (iii) the purchaser is not currently in default of any contractual obligation to AmbroseBauer Trains,LLC; AmbroseBauer Trains; Drew J. Bauer; and/or Paul V. Ambrose at the time of the return; and (iv) the purchaser is entitled to currently bid on items being offered by the user names "drew_bauer," "ambrosebauer_trains" and "ambrosebauer_auctions" at the time of the return. There has to be a good faith basis for questioning the description of an item as well as a substantial basis for such a challenge. The good faith basis shall be determined solely by the determination of the Attorney. Upon receipt of such a qualified return, the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC shall either correct the issue or refund the amount of the bid, any buyer's premium paid, and any shipping incurred on the item's return to the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC to the purchaser within thirty days of said return. Other than the specific exceptions listed herein, an item may not be returned for any other reason. MORE DISCLOSURES: All train items are graded in good faith pursuant to the Attorney's and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC's understanding and use of the old grading standards of the Train Collectors Association as actually applied by most knowledgeable collectors who sell or buy substantial amounts of trains each year. The Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC do not aver, warrant or guarantee that the TCA, or anyone else, would agree on any specific day as to the specific grading used herein. Although the TCA did not use plus and minus in their original grading standards, the Attorney and ABT use them to convey which range of a particular grade the piece is closer. The Attorney and ABT believe that such use gives a potential purchaser a better idea as to the actual subjective grading of a piece. Boxes are graded pursuant to the widespread DJB Standard Box Grading Standards. All standards are obviously subjective but ABT has been grading items for over thirty years. The Attorney and ABT include "in our Opinion" in each listing to make the point that the grading is ABT's collective personal opinion and that others may, and will, have a different opinion. The Attorney and ABT provide up to 44 pictures of each lot and expects a Bidder to review each available photo and make their own determinations as to grading. Feedback may not be left as to issues of grading and any feedback so left will be a violation of the Terms and Conditions. PHOTOS: Please note that on each item the Attorney and ABT include at least ten high quality photographs with the liveauctioneers.com listings, and up to forty-four pictures per lot at our website, so that you can make your own opinion as to its condition. The Attorney and ABT expect each bidder to view ALL of these photos, including those on the website, and as such ABT's listings do not necessary include all information as to an item that can easily be ascertained by the viewing of the photos. Details viewable in any of the photos of a particular lot are incorporated herein in the text and description of any Lot listed through liveauctioneers.com. When there is a conflict between the pictures and the text, the pictures control to the extent accepted by the Attorney. NO RETURNS: Items purchased may not be returned on issues of Grading. No warranty or guarantee is made as to any Grading. OPERATION OF OUR PRIVATE AUCTIONS: Your bids cannot be canceled or stopped once you have reached a certain amount, or if you are interested in bidding on multiple items, your directions not to bid on the remaining items if you have or have not won a specific item will not be honored. As such, be prepared to be the winning bidder on any bid that you may place. Absentee bids may be canceled by Drew J. Bauer, Esquire and/or AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC in the event there is a conflict in the stated condition or variation of an item, an error in the listing, an error in the catalog, current or previous nonpayment of bids, and/or any reasonable basis at the discretion of the named Attorney and/or Auctioneer. Neither Drew J. Bauer, Esquire nor AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC is responsible for missed Absentee Bids and/or the execution of liveauctioneers.com or liveauctioneers.com bids. In the event that liveauctioneers.com goes down before or during a Private Auction, it is at the discretion of Drew J. Bauer, Esquire and/or AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC to continue the Private Auction with or without the placement of any current liveauctioneers.com Bids. The Date and Time of any Private Auction or made be changed or modified at any time by Drew J. Bauer, Esquire and/or AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC. Items that have reserves have bids placed on them by the Attorney during the operation of the Auction. OPERATION OF LIVEAUCTIONEERS.COM AUCTIONS: Please note that liveauctioneers.com does not control the manner that the actual auction is conducted. Liveauctioneers.com bidders represent approximately ten percent of the total bidders for each of our auction. Liveauctioneers.com bidders are bidding against other Bidders who have left bids with us, or are currently bidding with us, for each increment on each lot. Accordingly, the time when each liveauctioneers.com bidder may have placed a bid is controlling only among other liveauctioneers.com bidders but is not relevant as to issues of bids placed outside the liveauctioneers.com process. Further, neither AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC nor the Attorney warrants or represents that the Bidding History shown on each liveauctioneers.com lot is accurate. The Individual entering information into the liveauctioneers.com computer while the auction is being conducted will always be behind the actual bidding that is occurring on the floor or our website until the final bids. AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC and the Attorney warrants and represents as accurate only that the final and high bid, when certified as final the day after the close of the auction by the Attorney, is the high bidder and at the high bid shown, and that the high bid shown is one bidding increment above the actual second bid received by or made by the Attorney as set forth in the Terms and Conditions. A Bidder who registers for this Auction warrants and agrees to this Bidding Process. LIMITATION OF DAMAGES: Neither Drew J. Bauer and/nor AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC is liable for any consequential and/or punitive damages that any Bidder or Prospective Bidder may incur, and the placement of any bid on our Listings, or registration for our Private Auctions on Liveauctioneers.com, shall act as a full and complete legal waiver of any right to any such consequential and/or punitive damages as to any matter arising out of any Private Auction and/or liveauctioneers.com. NO CANCELLATION OF BIDS: Individuals may not cancel bids placed on liveauctioneers.com without the prior written permission of Drew J. Bauer. Individuals who withdraw and/or cancel bids placed through liveauctioneers.com on the instant Auction, without the prior written permission of Drew J. Bauer, shall be in breach of the Terms and Conditions as stated herein and shall carry the penalty of $1,000.00 per canceled bid, payable to Drew J. Bauer, Esquire without further demand. DETERMINATION OF WINNING BID: The fact that liveauctioneers.com may show a winning bidder as an Internet Bidder does not mean that an Internet Bidder was the actual high bidder of any particular lot from this Auction. The Attorney shall have the sole and exclusive right to determine at any time set forth in these Terms and Conditions who is the actual high bidder of any particular lot. Any Bidder, by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, by registering for this Auction, and by placing a bid on any particular lot, agrees that the Attorney does have the final word as to who the winning bidder of any particular lot is, and the amount of the high bid on each particular lot, and that the designation by liveauctioneers.com of the winning bidder or bid amount shall not be relevant unless ratified by the Attorney. MECHANICAL OPERATION OF ITEMS: Unless otherwise noted in the listing that ABT has operated an item, ABT does not test items as to whether they operate or run. If the listing notes that ABT has operated an item, it means ABT has connected it to power and ensured that the item had some method of operation when subjected to power. ABT does not aver or warrant to any degree anyone's satisfaction of the operation of a particular item or that all operational functions of a particular item actually operated. The High Bidder warrants to AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC and the Attorney that they waive any issue as to the operational functions of an item. ABT's Grading incorporates the physical appearance of the item(s) and not its/their mechanical operation. Items may not be returned because they do not operate. Feedback may not be left as to issues of mechanical operation and any feedback so left will be a violation of the Terms and Conditions. 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Bauer in such any action relating to the transfer, defense, or dismissal of said Action and/or Complaint. Further, the Bidder gives their Power of Attorney to Drew J. Bauer, Esquire to enter a dismissal with prejudice of such Action and/or Complaint. WARRANTIES: All items are sold as is where is except as otherwise noted in these Terms and Conditions as applicable to an item's originality, the description of an item being a specific variation, the description of an item being a specific model and/or the description of an item being from a specific manufacturer. Except as otherwise explicitly stated in these Terms and Conditions, there is no privilege or right of return. ABT are Collectors, not Operators. The Attorney and/or ABT is not an authorized Lionel dealer, nor that of any other manufacturer, and as such no manufacturer's or original dealer's warranties are given or provided on any item that the Attorney and ABT auctions, sells or offers. 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Bauer, agree to pay the Liquidated Damages Amount of $25,000.00 to the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC. Failure to pay said amount within ten days of such False Registration and/or demand shall lead to the filing of a civil action in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to seek such a judgment for said amount. Any individual who registers under a false name, or with false and/or untrue information, consents by such Registration and/or use of liveauctioneers.com to the filing of such lawsuit, and the payment of any legal fees and/or legal expenses incurred by the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, as well as jurisdiction and venue of said Court, by making such Registration(s). 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For the purposes of this Section, Default shall include, but is not limited to, the leaving of negative or neutral feedback, in fact or tone. RETURNED CHECKS: Any Bidder whose check has been returned by a financial institution as not being paid in full for any reason shall be obligated to pay the Attorney and ABT the amount of $25.00 plus the amount of the returned check. LATE PAYMENTS: Any Bidder who does not make payment on any winning bid within twenty days of the date of the Auction shall pay to the Attorney and ABT an Administrative Fee of $50.00 per winning lot. EMAILS: Any Bidder who registers for an Auction agrees to accept e-mails from the Attorney and AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC notifying them of the date and time of the Auction and any specific information regarding the conduct of the Auction. An Auction is defined by liveauctioneers.com as any liveauctioneers.comlive auction conducted over a five week period. 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No other offers, modifications and/or counter-offers will be accepted. Any offers, suggestions, counter-offers and/or modifications communicated at any time to either the Attorney and/or AmbroseBauer Trains, LLC shall as a matter of law be deemed to be denied. By Registering as a Bidder, the Bidder agrees and warrants that he shall not make any offers, counter-offers and/or modifications pertaining to the Terms and Conditions of the Auction, or the operation of the Auction, and the making of any such offers, counter-offers and/or modifications shall be a breach of the Terms and Conditions of this Auction. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: Bidders who reside outside the US-50 are responsible for any tariffs, custom duties or other taxes, including those that arise after payment and shipment of orders. In the event that Drew J. 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thats pretty wild. So they said they switch it (back) to a left hand drive? If it was originally delivered there it wouldn't be a factory right hand drive Camaro?
That's a gorgeous car, and I too have always loved the minilite wheels.. Re the fender stripes: I think I recall seeing some original GM Z28 ads which showed the 'over wheel pinstripes'... Was that, or was that not, an option?
Quote from: 69Z28-RS on March 04, 2014, 02:31:23 PMThat's a gorgeous car, and I too have always loved the minilite wheels.. Re the fender stripes: I think I recall seeing some original GM Z28 ads which showed the 'over wheel pinstripes'... Was that, or was that not, an option?The fender pinstripes were part of Z21, but the pinstripes were specifically excluded when Z21 was ordered on a Z/28.
John, Would you have any idea if the 'exclusion' might be something that could be 'Deleted' via a customer order form (for a Z28 buyer who wanted the pinstripes)??
Painted on. Bueller paint stripers, IIRC.
Here's a photo of a similar pinstripe fixture in use in 1965 at the Pontiac home plant - it has suction cups to hold it in position, and the top rail is the guide for the tip of the Beugler roller-striper. Two different Beugler guns were used - one with a thin roller, and one with a thicker roller for the second stripe. The Pontiac fixture is being used in an off-line stall, but the Camaro pinstripe fixtures were on-line, suspended from overhead balancers, and moved with the car.Go here for more detailed information on the Beugler striping tool:http://www.beugler.com/
Yes, it's an original HO car (if you're into that - sorry Gary, couldn't resist ) and yes, does have a right hand mirror. More on the story, with photos, here:http://www.superchevy.com/features/camaro/sucp_0108_1969_chevy_camaro_z28/
Did the right hand drive Camaro come from the factory with the rear stripes too close together ?


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A committee of high-profile Dallas business and community leaders, in partnership with City Hall, is planning a ceremony at Dealey Plaza next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 45-minute event marks the first time in 20 years, and one of the very few times in the past half-century, that an official ceremony has been scheduled to mark the darkest day in the city's history.
The observance will not be restricted to VIPs, although admission will require advance ticketing. The commemoration will include music and speakers and, afterward, the plaza will be reopened. Details of the program will be announced at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
When the committee was formed last spring, Mayor Mike Rawlings said organizers wanted to set a tone for the commemoration that was "serious, respectful, understated."
"It became obvious to me in the fall of last year that probably the most important date for me as mayor was going to be the 50th anniversary of the assassination," Rawlings said.
"I say that because on the 48th, people were already asking, 'What are you going to do on the 50th?'"
Organizers have said the event would focus on the life and legacy of Kennedy, rather than on the circumstances of his death.
In the past, leaders of the city and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza have shied away from organizing a commemoration of the events of Nov. 22, 1963. In part, they said, they were deferring to the wishes of the Kennedy family, who wanted no official recognition of the tragedy.
One of the few exceptions was the 30th anniversary, when there was a ceremony marking Dealey Plaza's enrollment in the National Register of Historic Places.
On most anniversaries, however, the absence of an official program found the plaza dominated by conspiracy theorists, and sometimes simply by attention seekers, at 12:30 p.m. That was the moment Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president from a sixth-floor window at the Texas School Book Depository.
For months, city and museum officials have said they were concerned about the city's image next year when a major anniversary of one of the 20th century's most tragic events is expected to attract international attention.
"Dallas has been somewhat defined by the events of that day. We will have a chance to present what Dallas is," Rawlings said.
Last year, museum officials secured a permit for Dealey Plaza during the anniversary week, a permit since taken over by city leaders.
Rawlings earlier this year set up the organizing group, known as The 50th Committee, and appointed Ruth Altshuler, one of the city's highest-profile philanthropists, as its chair.
Altshuler said she was shocked when the mayor asked her to head the committee. She initially resisted.
"I said, 'I'm over the hill,'" she recalled. "And he said, 'Do it for Dallas.' And that did it, so I said, 'I'll come back over the hill.'"
The multiethnic group has met several times over the past few months.
Its ranks include some of the most prominent names in the city: philanthropist Margot Perot; arts patron Anita Martinez; and the Rev. Zan W. Holmes Jr., pastor emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church.
It also includes political figures such as state Sen. Royce West, DISD board President Lew Blackburn and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
The committee, which had 21 members when it was first formed, has added four more, including former Mayor Ron Kirk, now U.S. trade representative.
AT A GLANCE: The 50th Committee
The 25 officers and members of The 50th Committee:
Honorary chairman Mike Rawlings, Dallas mayor
Chairwoman Ruth Sharp Altshuler, philanthropist
Vice chairwoman Linda Pitts Custard, philanthropist
Lindalyn Adams, historic preservationist
Lew Blackburn, DISD board of trustees president
Adelfa Callejo, civil-rights activist
Kevin Farrell, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas
Nancy Strauss Halbreich, civic volunteer
Zan W. Holmes Jr., pastor emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church
Clay Jenkins, Dallas County judge
Ron Kirk, U.S. trade representative
Bobby Lyle, philanthropist
Anita Martinez, arts patron
Linda McFarland, civic volunteer
Cappy McGarr, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board member
Ken Menges, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza board chairman
Blaine Nelson, Dallas Symphony Orchestra board chairman
Erle Nye, retired utility executive
Rick Ortiz, Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce president
Margot Perot, philanthropist
Jeanne Phillips, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Caren Prothro, philanthropist
Deedie Rose, philanthropist
Terdema Ussery, president of the Dallas Mavericks
Royce West, state senator
SOURCES: The 50th Committee; Dallas Morning News research


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1. Does a 0 on the Digital Output pin of Atmega8 equivalent to Ground?
If I connect a LED + Resistor betwen D-Out pins 1 & 2, with Pin 1 outputting '1'& pin 2 outputting '0', will it light the LED?
If so, is it safe to do so instead of using Ground?(I read something about considering the sink current & such!)
2. Will the following work? My aim to control the gradual dimming & brightening of individual LED's.
The max current sink capacity for the Digital Pin of Atmega8 is 40 mA?What is the source capacity?
Considering the above image, will it work without any problem?How many Ohms resistor should I use on each pin?
Lastly, I would be grateful if you can tell me how to use NPN tansistors (BC548)as switches in the above diagram? (including the resistor values)