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One of the hot political topics in Washington and across the nation is the misconduct of some Internal Revenue Service officials and employees in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status under the tax code. The misconduct has received the universal condemnation it deserves from virtually everyone, including President Obama and representatives of both parties.
The Herald-Tribune has editorially joined the criticism and called for further investigations to find out who engaged in the misconduct and why. It also called for an examination of "the ambiguity in federal law and IRS guidelines for determining whether an organization deserves" tax-exempt status.
As important as it is to discipline those who discriminatorily applied the law, it is even more important to ascertain whether existing law is unclear and, if so, to clarify it.
To answer this question it is necessary to examine the history of the code provision in question, 26 U.S.C. section 501(c)(4)(A), and the Treasury regulations interpreting it. This will show whether the law itself is ambiguous (or, more correctly, unclear) or whether the IRS has misinterpreted and misapplied this provision over the years, thus allowing IRS employees to target specific applicants for arbitrarily overzealous examination.
Shortly after the adoption in 1913 of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing the federal government to tax incomes, Congress enacted the Internal Revenue Code. It included a tax exemption for "any civic league or organization not organized for profit, but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare."
"Operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare" was retained in every subsequent recodification of the law. The regulations that implemented this statute since 1924 restricted the exemption to organizations "operated exclusively for purposes beneficial to the community as a whole."
In 1954, Congress completely rewrote the tax code. Congress continued, however, the tax exemption for civic leagues or organizations that operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare in section 501(c)(4)(A). The IRS regulations adopted in 1954 also retained the "operated exclusively" language.
In 1959, however, the Treasury Department adopted another regulation that defined the phrase "operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare" in the tax code. The regulation stated, "An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the people of the community."
By this regulation, the "operated exclusively" requirement imposed by Congress became "primarily engaged" under the regulation. The statute itself is a model of clarity. The regulation, on the other hand, is model of sloppy drafting, opening up the door to the inconsistent and unequal treatment of applicants.
This change had two bad effects. First, it amended the statute by administrative fiat, something not within the power of an administrative agency. Second, it gave the IRS the discretion to decide what percentage of an organization's activities could be devoted to something other than social welfare.
This is a very flexible standard that opened the door for unequal treatment of organizations seeking tax-exempt status, as demonstrated by the IRS' singling out organizations with conservative- sounding names.
The problem here is not that the tax code is unclear (or ambiguous). The problem is that the Treasury regulation supposedly applying the tax code completely changed its meaning.
The Treasury Department has indicated an unwillingness to change its regulation on the ground that it has been in effect for more than 50 years. It is thus up to Congress to solve this problem. It can do so in two ways. One is to force the Treasury Department to revise its regulation so that it is in accord with the tax code. The other is to amend the tax code to provide that "exclusively" does not mean "primarily" but requires a minimum of 99 percent of the applicant's activities.
Either of these congressional actions will deny the IRS discretion in the treatment of tax-exempt applicants.
Even more important, they will prevent a tax-exempt organization from engaging in political activities, activities clearly not permitted by the tax code since the initial adoption of the social welfare exemption in 1913.
Robert J. Martineau of Nokomis is Distinguished Research Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Cincinnati. He is the author or co-author of three books on drafting and interpreting statutes and rules.
Martineau: Sloppy regulation opened door to IRS abuse
One of the hot political topics in Washington and across the nation is the misconduct of some Internal Revenue Service officials and employees in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status under the tax code. The misconduct has received the universal condemnation it deserves from virtually everyone, including President Obama and representatives of both parties.


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The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Richard Greene starred as Robin Hood, and many actors, who later became stars, appeared including Patrick Troughton, Jane Asher and Michael Caine.
A large proportion of the writers were in fact Americans, who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Another interesting fact is that English historians were hired as consultants. Their knowledge proved a great help in creating some of the plots.
The show also had a famous theme the words of which ran:
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good;
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!
He called the greatest archers to a tavern on the green,
They vowed to help the people of the king,
They handled all the trouble on the English country scene,
And still found plenty of time to sing
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The name may not be very surprising, but the show always is. With a team led by Gold Logie winners Carrie Bickmore and Waleed Aly, and Under-12s Best and Fairest runner-up Pete Helliar, The Project is the simplest idea in television for a long time. 6:30pm Sunday to Friday, the team dissect, digest and reconstitute each day's news.


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The Ron Mocambo 20 Anos Anejo is distilled by Licores Veracruz, S.A. de C.V. According to their website the 20-year-old edition which I sampled is called The Art Edition. The Art Edition is a throwback style of rum which uses old techniques of rum production, and then combines those techniques with modern aging techniques to produce an aged rum of unique taste and character.
Three years ago, a friend of mine brought a bottle of the Art Edition back from Mexico for me to taste and review. The result was my very first 'stylized' review where in my preamble to the review, I let my imagination take flight as I described the impressions the rum brought to me as I sipped it for the first time. The review was very popular, and I have wanted for the past three years to return to this rum for a second time. To that end, another friend of mine recently came back from Mexico, and my wish for a second chance at this bottle was granted when he came to my house for a visit and left me a small sample.
Of course, I had to close my eyes and let my imagination take flight for a second time. The rum still carries that same dry oaky flavour I remembered from before, and wouldn't you know, my imagination took me to that same place I visited before.
You may read the full review here:
Review: Mocambo 20 Anos Anejo Rum
"…The Macombo 20 Art Edition is a style of rum that genuflects at the altar of old wood without apology. The rum embraces its age, and its time spent in wooden casks. In fact I would say the Macombo Art Edition is a celebration of old wood and cask aging…."
For your enjoyment, I have added a two sipping cocktails I designed to the end of the review, The Last Vaquero, and Vaquero Magnifico.
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TITLE: Vice President and Director, TREAT Asia
CONTACT: Visit PeopleFinder for email and phone number (paid subscribers only)
PROFILE: Annette Sohn serves as Vice President and Director of TREAT Asia at amfAR. Her foundation bio shares:
Dr. Annette Sohn joined amfAR's staff as vice president and director of TREAT Asia in September 2008. In this capacity, she leads a staff of 20 based in amfAR's Bangkok, Thailand, office.
Dr. Sohn is a highly regarded pediatrician and researcher with extensive experience treating HIV/AIDS among children in Southeast Asia. She was on faculty in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and is currently assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and was the Vietnam country representative for the UCSF Institute for Global Health. Dr. Sohn also directed a pediatric HIV research program in collaboration with Children's Hospital #1 and the Ho Chi Minh City AIDS Committee. Her projects there included studies of diagnostic testing and monitoring in HIV-exposed infants, stigma and discrimination in the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and contraception and reproductive health outcomes of HIV-positive women.
Prior to her appointment as vice president of global initiatives, Dr. Sohn was a member of amfAR's TREAT Asia steering committee, pediatric network, and the Pediatric HIV Observational Database working group. She also served as a technical advisor to PEPFAR-Vietnam, assisting in-country programs on coordination, protocols, and capacity building for scaling up their comprehensive pediatric antiretroviral treatment programs.


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BOSTON -- The state Appeals Court has tossed the most serious conviction against the operator of a Tyngsboro pizzeria charged with using a baseball bat to beat an employee he suspected of stealing from him.
The court, in a Jan. 29 ruling, reversed a conviction for an assault-and-battery with a dangerous weapon charge against Eric Sideri of North Andover. He was sentenced to probation on lesser charges.
Sideri, a former operator of Angela's Coal Fired Pizza, filed documents in October asking that the conviction be overturned.
After a two-week trial and three days of deliberation, a jury found Sideri, 51, guilty in the March 2009 assault of Lucio "Lou" Oliveira, the former assistant general manager of Angela's.
Sideri was cleared of the charge of kidnapping, along with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, as well as making threats.
But his attorneys argued in last year's appeal that the trial judge erred by not allowing the jury to consider a lesser offense to the assault-and-battery charge. The appeal also claimed that the judge failed to properly instruct the jury on self-defense or poll the jury to see if the verdict was unanimous.
At the time the appeal was filed, the Middlesex District Attorney's office issued a statement saying the reversal should be rejected because "none of the defendant's claims has merit."
Sideri had been sentenced to four to five years in prison following his conviction in February 2012.
Prosecutors said Sideri believed Oliveira had stolen $21,000 from the restaurant and ambushed him in the kitchen while he was working. Oliveira was reportedly bound with zip ties, hit in the mouth with a baseball bat and had a gun jammed in his mouth.
Oliveira denied taking the money, but promised to get it if released, and then fled the restaurant. Police say there was no evidence he stole the money.
Sideri's convictions on the charges of assault and battery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle still stand, according to the court's decision.
Co-defendant Alfonso Guevara, 43, of Windham, N.H., faced the same charges as Sideri. A jury cleared Guevara of all charges.
Rosemary Curran Scapicchio, Sideri's lawyer, said she will now seek bail, which would allow Sideri to be released from prison.
The district attorney's office has 28 days to appeal the reversal.
Middlesex DA spokeswoman Stephanie Guyotte said in an email Wednesday night that the office was considering its "options in light of the Court's ruling and will be making a determination as to our course of action in this matter."
This report was compiled by Sun staff reporter Katie Lannan and the Associated Press. Follow Lannan on Twitter and Tout@KatieLannan.


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Rita Ora Gets Her Mouse Ears + More on ELLE Women in Music Covers
Rita Ora shares the title of cover girl with Adele for the ELLE Women in Music issue. While Adele was smoky and smoldering on her respective cover, her fellow Brit Ora gets her mouse ears and more.
Ora is adorbs on the black and white version, thanks to her big mouse ears and cute stare. She channels a French Revolution-style goddess in a poufy pink headdress on the other cover.
The singer admitted that her record label will never factor into her style choices, since she has emerged as a style star whose outfits on red carpets and at events are "must see" as of late. Of the notion that her handlers might have a say in her attire, she gasped, "That should never be allowed! It's like somebody telling you what to sing."
She also revealed who her childhood idols were: The Spice Girls! "I just remember watching them – not even meeting them – and I was completely mesmerized," the singer said.
The Women in Music issue of ELLE lands on stands April 23. The photos of Alicia Keys and Taylor Swift are also stunning.
But for now, enjoy these shots of Ora in high fashion, regal-looking couture. She particularly stuns in cotton candy pink and shiny black leather Chanel. Since it's an ELLE cover, we're christening the look "Chan-ELLE."
This egg-shaped floral confection is by Dior Haute Couture and it's a tough shape to pull off, but Ora does it flawlessly.
This flowy gown is a Valentino concoction, and Ora wears it so well.
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I consider myself very fortunate to be of the generation that grew up right before the mad mad sense of consumerism we have now hit. There was no tween fashion, no fast fashion and the concept of buying something new everyday would have had people in stitches. Only the crazy rich people did that sort of stupid thing, we thought. Yet slowly, slowly this has become the norm. As everything has the bejezzus merchandised and marketed out of it, we seem to walk along in a haze of consumerist fog. But there is hope on the horizon.
Living in Australia, land of drought and natural resources, I have gradually become more conscious of doing my part. We have rain water tanks collecting what little comes from the sky, power meters to monitor and reduce consumption, and have even been known to do a little vegetable growing. Yet it was the change in my wardrobe that has surprised me the most.
While continuing with the major household purge project, I stood in front of my wardrobe wondering where all this space I was supposedly reclaiming had gone. And while it seems that my closet still runneth over, I noticed something very interesting. About 85% or more of my wardobe is recycled or made by me! This means second hand finds, vintage clothing, hand me downs and swaps, as well as the many items I have successfully made. Unlike some other ethical fashion bloggers, I did not set out of a particular mission to buy nothing new, or consciously boycott the need to consume, as you well know I am a legendary shopper. But somehow, the concept of waste not want not, and the belief that there must be a better way has painted itself in broad strokes across my wardrobe.
I consider myself fortunate that I want for nothing and can afford to go out and buy whatever I want at any time, yet I wonder if looking at a wardrobe full of new fast fashion purchases would make me feel as proud. I love the challenge of creating a stylish outfit from my treasure hunts and not looking like a bag lady or starving artist. There is more opportunity for creativity, art and personal flair when you are not lifting your look, item for item, from the pages of your favorite glossy; and indeed a much greater sense of achievement. But even more so to realise that your fashion choices are the right ones for generations to come.
Not only will I teach my daughters to dress well by example, but to learn the art of ethical style. Perhaps if we women, the biggest consumer group of all, learnt to change this one compulsion, we could single handedly change the course of global warming? We will without a doubt make a difference in the amount of product wasted; in poor working conditions and environmental damage; and in supporting our local economies.
It seems like such a small thing, looking at my wardrobe, and would have been nothing earth shattering to our grandmothers; but given the frenzy we have all been in, it is. Perhaps the title of Environmentalist may not fit me yet, as I am a long way off spending my weekends on reforestation projects. And my look has a lot more hip than hippy to it. So for now lets just say, Super Kawaii Mama - Giving A Damn.


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Android's latest incarnation has come with an unexpected bonus, a design guide to help developers polish their apps, and add some much-needed consistency to the platform. The guide comes in the form of a website. Matias Duarte, head of user experience at Android, talking to Wired, describes it as "the second part of Ice Cream …
It depends what you mean by "style".
Visual aesthetics are very much a matter of instinct, although I think it's possible for anyone to learn some basic rules that can help avoid extreme ugliness.
Usability is more a matter of empirical science: there's no elegant mathematical proof you can construct in a void to show one design is better than another. It always comes down to putting the program in front of some representative users and seeing what actually happens.
They really should have put this in place from the get go. Apple have their HIG document and will reject your Apple if you don't follow it closely enough. That may be a bit draconian, but it serves a purpose.
Putting out a website now with these ideas on is a bit late. It's going to be ignored by the majority of developers I expect. If it had been there at the start, developers would have gotten used to referring to it as part of their dev cycle.
Do they actually reject based on this? Or is this HIG document just so horribly incomplete that no one can make a useable app based around it.
I have an iPad2 and one thing that I have noticed, is that from app to app the interfaces are wildly inconsistent. Even Apple's own applications are inconsistent in places. Up until now I have mostly blamed app developers, with a little ire to Apple for not enforcing UI consistency. Now that you tell me the ARE supposed to be enforcing consistency, I'm far more annoyed at them.
To put it lightly, Apple's track record here is abysmal. I can't imagine Google's will be worse enough to matter.
The HIG are just that--guidelines. They don't tell you exactly how to make every kind of app. (Why don't you look at them online if you have questions about them?)
Apple does occasionally reject apps for egregious violations of the HIG. Of course they don't review every app against every single one of their HIG, many of which are subjective anyway.
It's interesting that people constantly gripe about Apple being a walled garden, dictatorship, controlling, etc., and now you are complaining that they are not controlling enough. They really can't win.
Apple's walled garden means that we cannot install applications from outside their store. Everything HAS to be signed off and approved by Apple. It is not MY device to do with it as I see fit, it is APPLE's device to dictate to me how I will use (at least this seems to be Apple's position). Yes, I think that's a fair complaint. If i want to install apps from Amazon's store or malware.ru's store that should be my prerogative.
The first complaint makes the second MORE valid not less. Apple runs there store like a true orwellian regime, a la "Animal Farm." Rules are applied haphazardly, and seem to be applied with intents differing then obvious reason for the rule.
Android has always had design guidelines http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/index.html
They may not have had a dedicated website or be as comprehensive but they've been there since 1.5 at least.
This is just an evolution of it (a good one) but not brand new.
Yeah seems pretty sensible and all but the whole idea that the ability to program and the ability to make decent UI are mutually exclusive is a myth.
The real reason programmers aren't "good" at UI is that it is boring and our time is better used elsewhere so when we are forced to do it we resent it. There are also a lot of developers who just have no pride in their work and really don't care about users of their systems. Simply stopping and thinking "would I want to do this if I were using it" never occurs to them. See pretty much every 2011 game UI for evidence of that (I'm looking at you Bethesda and Volition).
I would find implementing somebody else's poorly designed UI with no say in how it looks and works boring. But then again Interaction Design is an area of design that's always interested me, and I am always trying to push the boundaries of efficiency and elegance in any user interface I work on.
My recommended reading is Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet: http://tinyurl.com/2g5lhk
Working for various large IT firms on both back and front ends (ooer) I often found poor UI design excused with the 'less important, too boring' etc excuses. But good, elegant design is intrinsically fascinating and I do find it irritating that UI design specialisation is seen as the poor relation of app development.
As a programmer and, at times, designer, I disagree with you. Most developers think it's boring because they do know how to do it, and thus are not bothered to understand its intricacies.
I see it all the time at the various places I've worked at: when given the chance, a typical developer with apathy towards design would end up with something horrendously complex and unwieldy. For instance, on this particular application, an otherwise brilliant programmer took the data model literally, and created a form that contained a label and field for each entity attribute, just one below the other. He even made a direct translation between data-types and field control without regard to actual user workflows or usability.
No wonder people like him later decry that task as "boring."
There is no fun in creating repetitive tasks w/o any logic behind. It's always "easy" to build an UI even with very fancy layout managers/schemes. So, it's considered tripe.
The UI is always event->process... and single threaded. Most developers (can) do their stuff via plain old command interface and find it useful. Heck, coding, itself, is mostly plain text. A developer may appreciate a good IDE w/ good debugging capabilities but not the fluffy/glossy UI. It takes an artist for the latter.
Also, like mentioned, there is no pride in building any UI, it's still trivial to program and many developers have started doing such stuff: simple games, simple programs with a lot of visual controls. True, managers/customers may notice and like that UI thing but they understand nothing anyways.
The issue is not related to lack of communication or social skills at all. I guess it's sorta myth developers are socially inept.
I agree, devs can definitely do UI. Making sweeping generalizations about devs is worthless and offensive. Might as well say "women can't do UI" or similar.
Despite what some (many?) people seem to think, devs are not all the same. It's not like there's just one way to write code and we're all equally good at it. A dev with a good sense of design and style will write beautiful code and also design beautiful UI.
If you take any given job, there are people out there who do that job poorly. Same with dev, except maybe moreso. If you want to be a dentist you have to go to an accredited school for years and become certified and licensed, whereas unfortunately there are many people out there who know the basics of HTML and call themselves "devs." But just because there are a bunch of sub-par devs out there writing bad code and making UI doesn't mean we should all be judged accordingly.
Though I don't disagree. KDE and GNOME seem to continue to stride forwards (even if toward the wrong targets in the opinion of some longtime users) but many of the applications commonly associated with the Linux desktop, like GIMP, OpenOffice and Inkscape, continue to look and act like Windows 3.1 refugees that got the usability wrong in the first place.
And the world of Internet discourse then seems to divide into (i) those that agree and therefore conclude that all Linux users must be stupid; and (ii) those that argue that if you're so brilliant then you can fix it yourself, and why don't you just clear off and buy a Mac if all you care about is shininess anyway? So it's difficult to have a rational conversation about it.
I've got to disagree there. For all the flack Linux gets for 'bad UI' I find a lot of the UI in Linux to be far and away better than Windows or OSX. A lot of UI (not all, granted) is about asthetics, and asthetics are all about personal preferance, so there's a lot to be said for a system that offers a couple dozen different UIs and the ability to choose between them. Some of them are geeky as hell, but some of them are just plain easy to use. My wife swears up and down that Fluxbox is easier to use than anything else she's ever seen (she actually says 'Linux' rather than 'Fluxbox' because her only experience with Linux are systems I've set up and she doesn't know any better, but meh).
@"But programmers are notoriously bad at design."
Not all programmers. Some doctors are arrogantly useless at talking to people. Some taxi drivers don't know where the hell they are going. And so it is with every profession. There are good people and bad people in every profession.
@"The lack of social skills which makes one so good at working with computers often renders one equivalently incapable of designing competent user interfaces"
My first response is ... [Citation needed]
For a start that "social skills" bullshit is a blatant stereotype. As for trying to associate that with being incapable to design something well, that is ridiculous.
Anyone who has managed teams of programmers knows its far more like herding cats. They each have their own individual minds and ideas about what should be done. That is why consistency on a platforms can diverge. That is why implementing standards is important to achieving consistency.
Suckage at design has nothing to do with social skills-- it starts with the assumption that the programmer knows the task and the context in which it is performed as well as the user does, which is hardly ever true, even when the intended audience is other programmers.
Now, once you're past that and trying to do proper user studies, *then* bad social skills can screw things up. But most of the IT world hasn't even taken that first step yet.
...they weren't put up by someone who thought black and light-blue text on murky gray was an ideal combination for readability.
...one of the exciting new features highlighted for Android 4.0 wasn't a major mistake. (Long press changed from contextual action to selecting items-- changing the behavior of an action after users have an extablished meaning for it is one of the canonical, evergreen Bad Ideas of design.)
... they weren't full of exhortations to not try to make your app work the way it would on "other platforms". Having things work the same regardless of context is something users really like.
Bonus WTF: See how long it takes you to find a picture of a person in the example views who is either non-white or non-male. Yeah, I know, demographics of the people likely to read that site and all, but still, kind of creepy when you start noticing it.
Simply put iOS beats ICS like a redheaded stepchild. Just try looking at the email clients on the two systems - the iOS client just works while the ICS client works just ... unless you're trying to connect to Exchange or look at multiple calendars, or notes (what notes?) ... and the sad thing is that ICS is so much better than Honeycomb.
The ideal design method is to have a Designer who knows how to program concentrate on the GUI, and a separate Programmer write the program under the Designers direction. It's the interaction between the two that makes a great program ... not having a better trained programmer.
"The ideal design method is to have a Designer who knows how to program concentrate on the GUI, and a separate Programmer write the program under the Designers direction. It's the interaction between the two that makes a great program ... not having a better trained programmer"
You forgot to include the *real people* who know nothing about the technical stuff. They will confirm whether or not your design concept (or better: prototype) is usable. And if not, you had better start over again.
Otherwise I do agree. Programmers (and sysadmins like me) often fail to speak or think in layman's terms. The outcome may be great from a technical point of view, but rubbish in terms of usability.
In the early nineties Acorn Computers LTD (yes those folks with the BBC micro, Archimedes whom also invented that ARM processor) had a terriffic "style guide" included with the renowned RISC OS programmers Reference Manual (a hefty pack of guides into RISC OS programming). Accompanied by template designs and UI tools on disc to make life easier. The advantage was that RISC OS was brilliantly consistent across all the apps both company- and home-written efforts.
Both such books and that effort is something that should be compulsory for EVERY OS creator. And indeed from the start (as is mentioned in the article).
They all should better look back and learn from the past. But oddly all the ppl ru(i)ning companies these days are clucking chickens running around like a beheaded turkey. All they can think of is which company to sue next.


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PlayStation 3 to Receive Support for the Next Few Years
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has divulged the plan for the PlayStation 3 after the PlayStation 4 is released.
An interview on GamesIndustry with Yoshida reveals a lot about the PlayStation 4, its relationship with indie titles and how the company feels about the Xbox One. But perhaps the most interest bit of news from the interview is the company's plan for the PlayStation 3 in a post-PlayStation 4 world.
When asked about the future of the PlayStation ecosystem and the PlayStation 3's place in it, Yoshida said, "I don't know if PS3 will last another five years - but definitely for the next couple of years, because of the price difference, the great library of games and the publisher side being able to support both."
He also cited the fact that many of the indie game announcements from Gamescom featured games that would appear on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.
With regard to software releases for PlayStation 3, Yoshida said, "We'll continue to support PS3 in a way that makes sense, especially the digital games that we work on - but our large teams, our AAA release teams, are transitioning from PS3 to PS4."
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- Toronto is definitely more like a road game instead of a home game. It seemed to be louder for the Bears.
- The Bills had 11 yards rushing in the first half, 7 from Fitzpatrick.
- Reggie Corner gave the Bears four points when he was called for an illegal hands in the face penalty on a third down and 12 stop. They scored their first TD on the drive instead of a field goal.
- So Lindell has his first extra point miss ever while Bears punter Brad Maynard got a good bounce on a punt to the one yard line.
My Take:
The last three games all resulted in tough three point losses. It is the same old story, the Bills don't know how to win. I went in to today with a positive attitude. I actually thought they had a chance to win, even when they fell behind again in the fourth quarter. They didn't win but I still can take a fairly positive outlook. This team does not quit, they are playing hard every week and sooner or late something has to break their way and they will get that win. Let's just hope they don't get too many wins, don't want to lose out on that top pick.
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The Bills head back to Ralph Wilson Stadium for the first time in five weeks when the Lions come to town. Detroit will be trying to avoid setting the record for the longest road losing streak in NFL history. That happens with a loss while the Bills continue to look for their first win. Two teams that are still trying to find a way to win.


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Minneapolis-St. Paul is the fittest metropolitan area in the United States for the second year in a row, according to a report released by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
The Twin Cities achieved a score of 76.4 out of a possible 100 points on ACSM's annual American Fitness Index (AFI) data report, which measures such factors as physical activity levels, diabetes rate, quantity of recreational amenities, numbers of pedestrians, bike and transit commuters, and parkland as a percentage of the city land area, plus strong investment in park-related expenditures.
Minneapolis-St. Paul's total decreased slightly from its previous score of 77.2 on the 2011 AFI data report. However, a mix of scores on personal health indicators and community and environmental indicators helped it repeat as the No. 1 metro area, according to the ACSM.
"For cities to compete for talent in the future and to provide a high quality of life for residents, it's critical to regularly evaluate the infrastructure, community assets, policies and opportunities that encourage healthy and fit lifestyles," Walter Thompson, chair of the AFI Advisory Board, said in a statement. "It's up to community health leaders and advocates in each metro area to put this information to good use."
Washington, DC (75.8) and Boston (70.0) are once again Nos. 2 and 3 on the list. Rounding out the top 10 this year are San Francisco (69.0); Hartford, CT (68.5); Sacramento, CA (68.4); Portland, OR (67.9); Seattle (67.8); Denver (65.6); and Austin, TX (63.4). Sacramento, which jumped from No. 10 to No. 6, and Austin, which jumped from No 16 to No. 10, made the biggest leaps among the top 10 cities.
The cities that made the biggest leaps in the top 50 were Raleigh, NC (58.8), which jumped from No. 24 to No. 14; Nashville, TN (47.3), which went from No. 37 to No. 27; and Riverside, CA (43.1), which went from No. 44 to No. 34.
The 2012 AFI data report, titled "Health and Community Fitness Status of the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas," was made possible by a grant from the WellPoint Foundation. Last year, ACSM received a $171,880 grant from the WellPoint Foundation to present the 2011 and 2012 AFI data reports and to pilot improvement efforts in Indianapolis and Oklahoma City, which both ranked in the bottom six last year. This year, Indianapolis (37.3) moved up to No. 43 while Oklahoma City remained at No. 50 (28.2). Also in the bottom five are Birmingham, AL (36.1); Dallas (35.1); Louisville, KY (32.1); and Detroit (29.4).
With leadership from the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis and Health by Design, community leaders and organizations in Indianapolis initiated a strategic plan based on a comprehensive review of in-depth interviews with key community leaders, according to the ACSM. The plan is expected to be released this summer.


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Depending on the news source - some say Romney did very well
while some say Romney lied throughout the "debate".
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stevesong needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 932 designs submitted by 207 freelance designers.
The Village Telco - http://villagetelco.org
The Village Telco is a diverse group of people who share a belief that access to communication in the developing world should be cheap and available everywhere. The Village Telco allows any community or entrepreneur to set up their own telephone company or cooperative at very low cost using meshed WiFi infrastructure. We are going to make setting up a telephone company as easy as installing a wordpress blog.
The logo should communicate the essence of who we are to sophisticated and unsophisticated users. This logo should be understandable to someone with a very basic understanding of communications, e.g. someone who owns a mobile phone but not necessarily a computer.
We would like the logo to straddle the technical and non-technical worlds. It should be evident to someone technical that this is a mesh network but that should ideally not detract from the simplicity or elegance of the logo.
We are looking for a logo/motif for our website (http://villagetelco.org) and which can also be adapted for use on a conference banner. If we are successful with this we'll probably follow-up with a 99designs contest to use the logo to put together a better wordpress site.
Key themes to get across in the logo are:
1) the sense of a village, community;
2) phones, this is about access to phones event though it runs on Internet WiFi; and,
3) the mesh, each phone/device extends the access to other devices
Here's an image that is headed in the right direction:
It conveys the sense of a mesh but it would need to look less European and be more SVG/EPS logo-ish. And the concept of phones needs to find its way in there.
Here is a google image search of "mesh network". Some pretty ugly images but it gives you a sense of what a mesh network looks like.
Things to avoid:
1) North American or European imagery or worse stock images. The Village Telco is about the developing world.
2) Getting too complex.
3) Mobile phone imagery
4) hexagons/bee-hive imagery
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LISA: Ryan is going to KILL you.
TBC: This was all YOUR doing! You posted it, not me! I was getting a manicure. Wait, I mean a pedicure. Okay, that's no better...
LISA: Oy. Quit dodging. I had a perfectly fine draft saved until YOU started editing. This is SO your fault.
TBC: Let's just keep quiet and hope nobody notices, shall we?
LISA: Right. Not a word. I won't tell Ryan if you don't.
TBC: Fine. I'll leave it out of my official report. On one condition ... Toe massage?
LISA: Ewww... How about I hire a masseuse?
TBC: I don't even LIKE mousse ... Fine. So long as it's chocolate, we'll call it a day.
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11 gorgeous photos and a video of Shannon and Susan promising commitment in Kansas City
April 15, 2013
As they exited the Pilgrim Chapel in Kansas City, MO flashing beaming smiles and holding each other's hands tightly, Susan McSpadden and Shannon Feldt followed the path of bright, shiny sparklers lit for them by their guests - their friends, family members, and colleagues who had come to watch them express their lifelong commitment for each other. Minutes earlier, they had exchanged vows and said "I Do."
The sparklers outside of the church led them to a classic Bentley, where a driver awaited, ready to take them to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, where Susan proposed to Shannon months prior.
It had been the perfect engagement: Susan had recently returned from a business trip to Madrid, where she was on assignment photographing an event. The two-week trip was the longest Susan and Shannon had been physically separated since they started dating one year before, and both women were excited to be back together in the Kansas City metro area, where they had made a home together. Soon after, the couple went to the museum's sculpture garden for a beautiful day outside. As they finished eating dinner and sipped down more of their wine, Susan brought out several small jewelry boxes that she had gotten in Spain. Inside were two keys. "Throughout my trip in Spain, I kept seeing keys in the cathedrals and souvenir shops and symbols in the architecture of the towns I visited," Susan said. "They were symbolic of giving your complete trust to someone and allowing them into your life fully. The keys have a story and meaning behind them that no ring I could have picked would have."
Now at the museum again on their wedding day one year later, the women, their driver, and the Bentley pulled up to the building and spent some time there toasting with champagne and taking pictures while their guests headed down to Amigoni Urban Winery for the reception. As they approached the Winery, Susan asked the driver to park across the street. "That made zero sense to me," Shannon said. "And as I was expressing this to Susan, I saw some people gathered out front that I didn't recognize. I heard lots of whistles, and finally, it clicked."
The women got out of the car and neared the building, and Shannon saw what Susan surprised her with: A special performance by the Kansas City Marching Falcons' drum corps. "All of our guests heard the commotion from inside and poured out onto the street to watch," Shannon said. "It was the best entrance to a wedding reception ever, and it really set the tone for the rest of the evening."
Watch this breath-taking video from Susan and Shannon's wedding day - including the marching band performance - below, produced by Mike and Melissa Ransdell of One Tree Weddings:
Shannon + Susan | Radiance from One Tree Films on Vimeo.
The couple's relationship had blossomed from a long friendship. They met eight years ago through professional contacts - Shannon was the art director for a local media group in the Kansas City area and needed a new photographer for a business publication; during her search, she connected with Susan. They stayed in touch over the years, and late 2010, Shannon began suspecting that her feelings for Susan transcended friendship. "I didn't want to disrupt the beautiful friendship we had formed over the years, but I couldn't deny that I was developing feelings for her," Shannon said. "I would carefully craft messages that could be taken as flirty or just normal conversation - depending on how you read it."
One night, Shannon received a similarly ambiguous text message from Susan asking if she wanted to go to a haunted house tour with some of Susan's friends. "I was super excited - but then I was confused," Shannon said. "Was this a date? Was I just her buddy tagging along?" When they arrived at the restaurant and all of Susan's friend's sized Shannon up, That's when she knew: This was a date. "From that point on, we have been together every single day, minus a few work trips here and there," Shannon said.
Two and a half years later, Susan and Shannon have built a beautiful relationship with each other, one strengthened by the foundation of their very close friendship. They live together with their children, 6-year-old Davis and 3-year-old Georgia, from a previous relationship of Shannon's. "The kids have known Susan since they were itty bitty," Shannon explained. "Both have accepted her fully into their lives - they call her their 'bonus mom,'" she laughed.
Shannon and Susan had an amazing ceremony and were able to express their commitment for each other last year in their home community - but because same sex couples in Kansas, where they live, and Missouri, where they had their ceremony, do not have the freedom to marry, their marriage is not respected by their state or the federal government. In the eyes of the state and the country, they are single women.
But Susan, Shannon, and the 75 people who attended their ceremony last year know that the love they share is equivalent to that of different-sex married couples. They know that their relationship deserves the same essential protections and responsibilities that marriage provides. They know that their commitment deserves acknowledgement, dignity, and respect.
"When you fall in love - real love - marriage is the highest form of recognition of that love," Shannon said, explaining why couples like her and Susan - couples across the Midwest, couples across the South, and couples nationwide - need the freedom to marry. "No matter what happens in life, you have your best friend beside you to help you through, laugh with you, cry with you, cheer you on, and raise you up. Without a doubt, life through its ups and downs is so much better with Susan than it ever was without her."
Reception photos by Mollie Hull of M&E Photo Studio, pre-ceremony and ceremony photos by David Eulitt, Wedding Film by Mike and Melissa Ransdell of One Tree Weddings


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"The year was 1991, the venue, the church of Tourinne-la-Grosse, the harpsichordist, Davitt Moroney. The enthusiastic audience witnessed the first recital of what was to become a festival that has lost none of its momentum since.
Its purpose was to offer a meeting place for harpsichord players and lovers, and since then the festival has welcomed numerous musicians in the course of its history.
Its repertoire has evolved continuously, comprising masterworks, forgotten works, unpublished works ... Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, French suites, suites by Handel, sonatas by Scarlatti, Harpsichord works by Louis and François Couperin, by Marchand, Froberger, Draghi, Purcell ...
A spring festival held in some of the most beautiful venues in Brabant Walloon like the little Saint Pierre church of Upigny, the Chapel Marie la Misérable of Woluwé-St-Lambert, the church Saint Nicolas of la Hulpe, or even a castle somewhere in Hamme-Mille.
In the wake of the festival, there are also "The Harpsichord on Thursdays" and the "Espace Mikrokosmos", whose programs are a perfect foil for those of "Le Clavecin à Tourinnes". .."
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Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.
Siri Hustvedt on the Novel – Hodder & Stoughton
As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.
The essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind/body problem, showing how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire, belief, and the imagination. The essays in the final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition, tackle such elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard. Together they form an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of some of the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition, delivered with Siri Hustvedt's customary lucidity, vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.
2016 National Book Award Winner: Colson Whitehead (Fiction)
Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction for "The Underground Railroad."
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David Daley, RATFKED: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy/Salon joins Thom. Gerrymandering electoral districts has given Republicans their largest majority in the House of Representatives since the 1920s. But it's also given them Donald Trump.
Beth Simone Noveck: "Smart Citizens, Smarter State"
We were joined in London by Beth Noveck (@bethnoveck) who discussed her book "Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing". Filmed in February 2016
Government "of the people, by the people, for the people" expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left "the people" out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the industrial age. They are especially ill-suited to confronting today's complex challenges.
Offering a far-reaching program for innovation, Smart Citizens, Smarter State suggests that public decision making could be more effective and legitimate if government were smarter—if our institutions knew how to use technology to leverage citizens' expertise. Just as individuals use only part of their brainpower to solve most problems, governing institutions make far too little use of the skills and experience of those inside and outside of government with scientific credentials, practical skills, and ground-level street smarts. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match the supply of citizen expertise to the demand for it in government.
Drawing on a wide range of academic disciplines and practical examples from her work as an adviser to governments on institutional innovation, Noveck explores how to create more open and collaborative institutions. In so doing, she puts forward a profound new vision for participatory democracy rooted not in the paltry act of occasional voting or the serendipity of crowdsourcing but in people's knowledge and know-how.
Junot Díaz on Donald Trump's Shamelessness
Junot Díaz on Donald Trump's Shamelessness
After Words with Tamara Draut, "Sleeping Giant"
Demos Vice President of Policy & Research, Tamara Draut discusses her book "Sleeping Giant," which examines America's working class & the issue of income inequality. She is interviewed by Amy Goodman, Host & Exec. Producer of Democracy Now!
After Words with Tim Wu, "The Attention Merchants"
Columbia law professor Tim Wu examines the history of advertising & how today's marketers are vying for our attention over a variety of mediums from billboards to social media. He is interviewed by Jon Fortt, CNBC's Co-Anchor of "Squawk Alley."
2016 National Book Award Winner: Ibram Kendi (Non-fiction)
Ibram Kendi won the nonfiction award for "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"
Erin McHugh, "Political Suicide"
Former publisher Erin McHugh recounts memorable political missteps in American history in her book, "Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, "Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour"
Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers many of the questions of the universe including how it began and the liklihood of intelligent life elsewhere in, "Welcome to the Universe."
Ed Yong "I Contain Multitudes" | Talks at Google
Science writer Ed Yong came into London to speak about his new book "I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life".
About the book:
Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.
In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems.
We learn the invisible and wondrous science behind the corals that construct mighty reefs and the squid that create their own light shows. We see how bacteria can alter our response to cancer-fighting drugs, tune our immune system, influence our evolution, and even modify our genetic make-up. And we meet the scientists who are manipulating these microscopic partners to our advantage. In a million tiny ways, I Contain Multitudes will radically change how you think about the natural world, and how you see yourself.
About the author:
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports for The Atlantic. His blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, is hosted by National Geographic, and his work has also appeared in Wired, the New York Times, Nature, the BBC, New Scientist, Scientific American, the Guardian, The Times and more. He lives in London.
Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter Onuf: 2016 National Book Festival
Annette Gordon-Reed and co-author Peter S. Onuf discuss "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination" with Melissa Block from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history at Harvard University, is one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars. She received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family." Her first book was the acclaimed "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy," which was described by The New Yorker as "brilliant." In "Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History," Gordon-Reed edited 12 original essays that delve into the impact of race on trials and American cultural history. Her most recent book, in collaboration with Peter S. Onuf, is "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination."
Speaker Biography: Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at Columbia University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Southern Methodist University. In 2008, Onuf held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth professor of American history chair at the University of Oxford. His books include "The Mind of Thomas Jefferson," "Nations, Markets and War: Modern History and the American Civil War," "Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood" and "The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787." His recent book, written in collaboration with Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination," uses careful analysis, painstaking research and vivid prose to develop a revealing character study which dispels many cliches and creates a portrait of Jefferson as he might have painted himself. Onuf also acts as a cohost for the radio show BackStory with the American History Guys.
Hope in a Time of Extinction pt1
This discussion with Ashley Dawson, Eben Kirksey, Julie Livingstone, Anne McClintock, Rob Nixon, and Jovana Stokic will probe imaginative horizons to illuminate concrete sites of biocultural hope. This conversation will orbit around two freshly published books: Extinction: A Radical History by Ashley Dawson and Emergent Ecologies by Eben Kirksey. As other species are snuffed out, possible futures for humans look bleak. Can radical political transformation bring an end to the sixth mass extinction event? As some charismatic creatures are being saved in zoos, captive breeding facilities, and cryogenic banks, a multitude of others are disappearing as they are disregarded or actively targeted for destruction. How should we love in a time of extinction? What practices of care can keep those who we love in the world?
Ashley Dawson is professor of English at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center. His work examines the literature of migration, including movement from postcolonial nations such as Jamaica and Nigeria to the former imperial center and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South like Lagos and Mumbai. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, and co-editor of Democracy, the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice; Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus; and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism. At present Dawson is at work on a book about urban culture and imperialism and on a history of twentieth-century British literature. He is currently web co-editor of the journal Social Text.
Helen Pilcher: "Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction"
Helen Pilcher has a PhD in cell biology and is an avid science writer, but she also performs comedy, comperes live events, and trains people to write and talk about science.
She paid Google a visit to talk about de-extinction: Bringing back extinct animals through modern technology. With lots of humor and knowledge she discusses what is possible today, what might be possible in the future, and which of these possibilities we should use. What about certain types of frogs? The woolly mammoth? Or Elvis Presley? And what would be the consequences of bringing back these animals?
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Moore had three run-ins with police this offseason, resulting in his suspension for the season opener against Savannah State. The coaches want his behavior cleaned up and for him to lead by example.
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As the only Northwest Philly team entered in the top division of the 2012 U.S. Squash High School Team Championships, it was up to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy to be the standard bearer for this section of the city two weekends ago in Connecticut.
The Blue Devils finished fourth in Division I at the scholastic racquetfest, which was held on the courts of Yale University and a few neighboring institutions near New Haven. In Division II, Germantown Friends School placed 11th and Penn Charter was 14th.
SCH started out by overwhelming the Brunswick Academy "B" team, 6-1, receiving victories from seniors Augie Frank (#2) and Alex Ambrosini (#7), juniors Alex McCall (#1) and Peter Ferraro (#6) and sophomores Philip Kelly (#3) and Mason Blake (#5).
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Now it's Ram Truck's turn to finish filling out its corner of the van space as it officially introduced its new 2014 Ram ProMaster (at left) full-size van model at the Chicago Auto Show this week – a van based upon Fiat's European Ducato platform.
[Fiat, if you remember, owns Chrysler Group LLC, which in turn is home to Ram Trucks. And if you want to view more photos of the new ProMaster van, just click here.]
Ram, like Ford, took a European-designed and built van and reconfigured it for the North American market. However, while in Ford's case this applies to both the Transit Connect and the Transit, Ram's current Class 1 Cargo Van is based off its successful Caravan minivan chassis.
In the case of the full-size 2014 ProMaster, Ram said it will begin production in the third quarter this year at the Saltillo Van Assembly Plant in Saltillo, Mexico, and that the van will come in three model designations – 1500, 2500, and 3500 – and 13 configurations, including two roof heights, three wheelbases, four body lengths, and a cutaway chassis.
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Fred Diaz (at right), president and CEO of the Ram Truck Brand and Chrysler de Mexico, noted that the ProMaster is the first shared truck collaboration between Ram and Fiat Professional, the work truck arm of Fiat in Europe. Conceived and developed in Italy, he noted that the ProMaster spent time on both sides of the Atlantic undergoing extensive extreme-duty testing to prepare for its North American debut.
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In the age of the internet, this is ballsy. The Lehigh Valley Express-Times' Bob Wechsler is so fed up with his Baltimore Orioles that he has declared himself a free agent, and is trying to find a new favorite team. Hey, if you're a soon-to-be ex-Orioles fan, join the Astros bandwagon. Baltimore is where Astros go to fade to black. So what do you say, Bob? What's that? You've already ruled out the Astros and Rangers?
There's no way I can support any sports team from Texas. The only worthwhile things in Texas are Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountain national parks.
That got personal quick. I was on board with the "any sports team" from Texas, but then it just got silly. Haven't you ever been to Storm's in Hamilton or Lampasas, jerk?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bob Wechsler doesn't think much of his favorite team. Or ours. Or anything else from Texas.
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2 comments:
- Drew said...
Some joe schmo fan made national news for the same stunt 15-20 years ago... maybe it was right after the strike.
- April 20, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- David Gross said...
I don't think you can get a new team. You're stuck with the one you grow up loving. One of Bill Simmons' rules of being a sports fan.
- April 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM
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