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Real Madrid strongly denied a report in Spain on Saturday that world record signing Gareth Bale has a slipped disc.
Madrid sports daily Marca published the story claiming that the problem had been identified when the 24-year-old Welshman underwent his medical with the club and that the player may need to undergo surgery.
The club flatly denied those claims and although they admitted that Bale does have a slight disc protrusion, the condition will not affect him from playing.
"The information published, claiming that the player has a slipped disc on the L5-S1 vertebrae and a bulge on two others, is completely false," said a statement on the club's website.
"The player Gareth Bale has a small chronic disc bulge, which is extremely common among football players and by no means prevents him from carrying out his professional activity normally."
Bale has only been involved in three games for Madrid since sealing his move from Tottenham Hotspur at the start of September due to a series of niggling muscular injuries.
Those problems have been put down to his lack of a proper pre-season as he trained very little with Spurs as his protracted move dragged on.
Bale has stayed in the Spanish capital over the past week rather than representing Wales in their final two World Cup qualifiers to undergo a specific training programme to get him up to speed.
And it is hoped he will make his return against Malaga at the Santiago Bernabeu next Saturday ahead of crucial matches for Carlo Ancelotti's men against Juventus and Barcelona later this month.


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Mondo Guerra grabs the big prize — winning "Project Runway All Stars"
Wearing a red tuxedo and polka dot socks, black and white patent leather shoes, his hair in its signature pompadour, Mondo was clearly in his element Thursday night.
For the finale of "Project Runway All Stars" he was throwing a big party with a carnival theme. "Mondo Bazaaro" took over the Exdo Event Center and an estimated 400 people were on hand. The decor included balloon arches and a giant blow-up clown head and hands, a dunk tank, and much like the televised competition, games of skill.
For all the frivolity, there was still an anxious edge to the evening as the national broadcast of the "All Stars" finale got underway and the crowd didn't know if Mondo was going to win or lose to Austin Scarlett of Michael Costello.
Among those on hand were Mondo's parents, sister and grandmother as well as fellow contestants from season 8 and 9 of "Project Runway," including Ivy Higa, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Casanova.
Big TV screens dotted the room and people cheered when Mondo's "Therapy" collection came down the runway. The designer apologized for "being so cranky" on some of the last episodes of the show. "I was really struggling through it and then put all my passion into my work."
He should probably get to the depths of design despair more often, as the judges — including Tommy Hilfiger and Ken Downing of Neiman Marcus as well as regulars Georgina Chapman and Isaac Mizrahi — named his collection the winner.
And what a sweet win it is, the biggest in "Project Runway" history. Mondo gets $100,000 cash from L'Oreal Paris, $100,000 dollars in technology and office space from HP and Intel, the chance to sell his collection in select Neiman Marcus stores and on neimanmarcus.com, an editorial spread in Marie Claire magazine, for which he will serve as a guest editor for one year, and a sewing and embroidery studio provided by Brother International.
It was a long time coming, but Mondo deserved to make it to the finals, and to win. He says he's going to continue working in Denver for the time being and wasn't any more specific than that. Thursday night was time to celebrate the moment, not contemplate too much about the future. The event was a benefit for Denver Capitol AIDS Project, and Mondo turned over a check for $20,000 to the organization.

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The United States scored another serious blow to Al Qaeda with the killing of the extremist American-born Islamic cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen last week. But the US and its allies should also pay attention to longtime Al Qaeda figures who are probably operating outside of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the Horn of Africa.
True, the terrorist group is greatly diminished – especially since the spectacular raid that killed Osama bin Laden and yielded rich intelligence. Al Qaeda's future as a global terrorist movement is in doubt.
I am concerned, however, by the significance that America and its allies ascribe to next-generation leaders recently captured or killed in Pakistan. The intelligence community knows its stuff, and has enjoyed ringing successes, but one big mystery is this: Where does senior Al Qaeda core member Saif al-Adl come into the picture? He was named as Mr. Bin Laden's temporary replacement. Now, he apparently isn't listed on the organizational chart of Al Qaeda's hierarchy.
Aside from top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mr. Adl is arguably the most experienced, senior leader remaining in the organization. He has deep chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear connections and knows the history of the terrorist group's nuclear and biological weapons projects from day one. At the time of 9/11, the former Egyptian Army captain was regarded as the number three man in the organization – its chief of operations.
Saif al-Adl is not the only key target who has extensive experience with weapons of mass destruction. Last year, Saudi national Adnan Shukrijumah was named publicly as Al Qaeda's external operations chief. In this role, he is responsible for planning attacks against the United States. And yet, based on the latest media reporting, Mr. Shukrijumah, who is on the FBI 10 most wanted list, also has been mysteriously bypassed on the group's organizational chart.
Lacking insider knowledge of the latest machinations within Mr. Zawahiri's restructuring of Al Qaeda, I can offer two explanations for this disturbing anomaly: Either Adl and Shukrijumah have been marginalized in Al Qaeda's post-Bin Laden leadership hierarchy – or they have been replaced so they can completely dedicate themselves to planning current operations.
The latter is the most likely.
At large: key terrorists with WMD expertise
No one trying to manage an organization, meet people, recruit operatives, conduct fund raising, and run the daily business affairs of Al Qaeda is a good candidate to plan the next major attack. It simply doesn't make sense for a group that has been so severely depleted in its senior ranks to marginalize dedicated jihadists in favor of far less experienced, unproven operatives. But it is logical that Zawahiri may have tasked his most experienced men to manage his group's resurgence – by planning the next big thing.
I suspect Zawahiri began such planning in complete secrecy about three years ago; he announced his intention to launch another mass casualty attack in the US in his 2008 book, "Exoneration." Now that he has taken over the reins of Al Qaeda, Zawahiri needs to establish himself as a force more than ever.
If he's following through, the people directly involved in planning the next big attack may have been cut off long ago from vulnerable, main lines of communication. The Al Qaeda core knows that a dedicated focus and compartmentalization of an operation is the only way, in today's hostile counterterrorism environment, to ensure the survivability of a plot.
There are not many operatives of Adl's and Shukrijumah's caliber in the hollowed-out Al Qaeda core, but there are enough of them to plan and carry out the next large-scale attack.
One who meets these qualifications: Abdel Aziz al-Masri, the man who led a secret project to conduct nuclear bomb-related tests in the Afghan desert in 1998. Al Qaeda's nuclear CEO was last reported to be in Iran with Adl in mid-2003, when the group was shopping for nuclear devices, technologies, and materials.
In addition, a Pakistan nuclear specialist apparently recruited by Al Qaeda has not been identified, and is presumably at large. Recent media reports indicate a senior Al Qaeda cadre under house arrest in Iran has been allowed to leave the country, suggesting some key weapons- operatives may now be free to engage in operational planning.
There are others. A physicist trained by the University of Arizona, a financier, and Al Qaeda original member, Syrian national Mohammed Luay al-Bayazid was last reported to be in Sudan. It is alleged that he was the notetaker at the group's founding meeting in 1988. Another University of Arizona alumnus, agronomist, and Bin Laden's personal money man, Iraqi national Mubarek al-Duri was last said to be in Iraq circa 2004. Both are reportedly hard-core extremists with a grudge against the US.
With men like these, there is potentially sufficient critical mass to meet Zawahiri's requirement for a few trusted, able, experienced planners.
Planning in Europe or Asia for a big attack?
Where might these men be located? Al Qaeda would not be foolish enough to use Pakistan as a planning base. Al Qaeda didn't use Afghanistan or Pakistan to plan 9/11, when the tribal areas of Pakistan were not as hot as they are today.
The September 11 ringleader, Mohammed Atta, used the al-Quds mosque in Hamburg, Germany, to help plan, meet people, and as a staging area for the attack. There is plenty of fodder in the Hamburgs of the world to round out an operational team that would be capable of mounting a mass-casualty attack.
It is probably not a coincidence that none of the experienced Al Qaeda operatives who are likely to be involved in planning the next big thing have been in Pakistan for many years, with the exception of Shukrijumah. However, he has been variously reported in the Caribbean, South America, and elsewhere over the years.
If Zawahiri had sufficient foresight, he would relocate a few skilled operators such as Adl and Shukrijumah to areas more conducive to planning, such as Europe, Asia, or South America. In this case, capturing and killing new-generation Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan's tribal areas will have little impact on planning for the next attack.
Would US and allied intelligence see this activity if it were occurring today? Are we taking a hard look at the possibility of a repeat of 9/11?
Taking a cue from the past, the US must assume Zawahiri will demand a standard of operational tradecraft that is as good as or better than that employed by 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Al Qaeda has two advantages in planning a follow-up to 9/11: The group has done it once before, and it won't underestimate the obstacles of doing it again. As before, it will probably operate in complete secrecy, with hand-picked operatives pulled out of the group's normal training and administrative structure, and working in places such as Europe, Asia, or South America.
Al Qaeda's most brilliant accomplishment lay in its ability to plan an attack that no one expected – it achieved strategic surprise. Consequently, the very few indicators (and mistakes made) of an impending attack were not interpreted correctly by the counterterrorist community.
In spite of everything that has been done to improve homeland security and intelligence work since 9/11, the US remains highly vulnerable to an unprecedented attack, in terms of the unconventional nature of the weapon to be used, and the profile/footprint of the team conducting the attack.
The US and its allies need to actively search for the outliers of Al Qaeda, not just for those in the mainstream. They need to be looking outside the boundaries of what they think they know, to find the indicators of an impending attack.
In counterterrorism terms, it makes no sense to choose between relentlessly pressuring Al Qaeda in their known strongholds, or searching for them in ways and in places where they might be better positioned to do us harm. We must do both.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA intelligence officer for 23 years, is a senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before that, he served for three years as the director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the US Department of Energy.
A version of this piece was first published at the Belfer Center's Power & Policy blog.


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Mars mons: Try space mountaineering
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK
Q. You x-treme mountain climbers out there, where might you go to ascend to heights well beyond the peak of Mt. Everest? -J. Krakauer
A. Try a rocket to Mars! Some mountains there are higher than Everest's 9 kilometers, such as Olympus Mons (after Mount Olympus, home of the ancient Greek gods) at 25 kilometers, largest known (extinct) volcano in the solar system. What limits the heights of mountains on Mars, here, or anywhere is the planet's gravity, which causes the mountain to have weight, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics, With Answers. At too much weight, the overloaded base would liquefy, causing the mountain to sink somewhat. Thus there is a certain critical maximum height a mountain can reach, depending on the heavenly body where it's located.
If you (would-be) summiteers ever did manage to get yourself and your gear to Mars and to the base of Olympus– 700 kilometers across or about the size of Arizona– it would be a long trek for you but not a steep one: The mountain slopes up rather gradually at 6 degrees– perhaps drivable if you've packed your Rover. Already, some members of the British Interplanetary Society are making their own plans for mountain climbing on Mars.
Q. Baseball fans know there hasn't been a .400 hitter since Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Yet from 1900-1940, seven different players broke .400 a dozen times. So where have all the .400 hitters gone? Are today's players getting worse? –K. Watt
A. Actually, they're getting better, said Stephen Jay Gould, author of Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. The average batting average has never changed much, staying around .260, reflecting the league balance between hitting and pitching. As hitters have gotten better, pitching has gotten better, maintaining the balance. And as everyone gets better, a surprising thing happens: The range of variation shrinks. In 1910, when Ty Cobb played, the average level of play was so much worse that Cobb could feast off the poorer pitching, etc., and in comparison to everyone else at the time, he came out at .420. But those days of "feasting" are long gone.
There are other theories, involving night ball, grueling travel schedules, changed ballparks, etc. But these lack Gould's elegance of explanation: Since Ted Williams' last-hurrah year, the bell-curve distribution of player performances has shrunk toward the median, eliminating the right-extreme of the graph and along with it today's would-have-been .400 hitters.
Q. You know of woodwinds, strings, brass and percussions from the Western symphony orchestra. What are aerophones, chordophones, idiophones, membranophones and electrophones? –P. Casals
A. They are the five Hornbostel-Sachs classes of musical instruments. This newer division is based on the physical characteristics of the sound source, making the categorizations more scientific, says David Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.
Aerophones have their sound generated by vibrating columns of air within, such as brass, reeds, woodwinds; chordophones include stringed and some keyboard instruments; idiophones generate sound with the instrument body itself, such as bells, the triangle; membranophones are drums, tambourines, etc; the newcomer electrophones add synthesizers, electric guitars and the like.
Most enthnomusicologists now prefer this system since it is broad enough to encompass "instruments" from anywhere in the world–panpipes, music boxes, maracas, carillons, conch shells, guiros, jaw harps, even bull-roarers, washboards and toy spinning tops.
Q. What can make your car such a big air drag, costing you gas mileage and money? –H. Ford
A. Start with speed squared (speed x speed), a bleeding gas hole as the pedal hits the metal, says Barry Parker in The Isaac Newton School of Driving. Vehicle frontal area is another factor, obviously best when kept small, and frontal areas have certainly shrunk since the 1950s– unless you're SUVing or VANing or TRUCKing it.
How low can drag get? Ideal aerodynamic shape for cars is the teardrop, or fish– drag coefficient of about .03 to .04– best if the streamlines follow the car's contour from front to back without breaking away, though this rarely happens. Instead, turbulence! Typically, the onrushing air splits at the front bumper, some going over the vehicle and some under. The air over splits just before the windshield, then rejoins and rushes over the roof, possibly splitting again at the roof's end. Or it may leave the car smoothly. The wake behind can also be a drag, worse when the car's end is cut off, called "bobtailing."
Underside drag is another problem, says Parker, as are radio aerials, mirrors, wipers, door handles, wheels and internal drag from air going through the car. And this doesn't even factor in the car's "skin friction" and "rolling friction"– but perhaps you're out of gas by now.
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Parkinson disease
|This article may be Overly British
- "Parkinsons" redirects here. Were you looking for The Wiggles?
It is true...is it not, that the...illness...commonly known as Parkinson Disease, is a debilitating condition especially prevalent in those from a place somewhat north of the more southern climbs named Yorkshire. It was first diagnosed in British Talk-Show host Michael Parkinson, and is thus - in a move that makes complete sense - named after him somewhat.
In a sense...Diagnosing Parkinson disease has become much easier in recent years with - what is often referred to - 'progress'. Symptoms that there are, have been documented by doctors and, with the greatest respect, those that are knowledgeable in that particular area. Certainly not, if I may say so, Russell Brand
Of course...One of the easiest symptoms to spot in a sufferer, is their propensity...if it indeed can be said...to talk in long and directionless sentences in what one could call...a gruff and practical, and you know almost beautiful in its way: northern accent. That's not to say that what is being said is without merit...just that...when all is said and done...it could have been said... with less of the 'words' and thus unarguably: a whole lot quicker.
This problem is especially prevalent when a sufferer is introducing their spouse or friend to someone. Instances such as introducing a colleague to one of those wifey creatures at a Christmas Party, can often, it would be fair to say, go something much in the mould of this:
Now this woman is from fine Yorkshire stock, born there that she was, in 1946, just one year after Germany surrendered to the Allies in the Second World War. Growing up ,it's fair to say she lived in a council house with her single-mother Mildred in the marvellous city of Leeds. And from a young age..this lady dedicated much of her time to reading historical literature; a practice she is still very much…involved in…today.
From these humble beginnings, she didn't lose her virginity until the age of 24, not so unusual back then, and she did so in the freezer department of one of the first branches of the supermarket Sainsbury's, to a man named Peter, who was at the time, learning a foreign language as a hobby.
This lady went on to work in the very supermarket where she was first penetrated, and became a much loved member of the team, once shaking hands with Lionel Blair, who came in for some Cheese. Lionel left disappointed because of a problem with the cooling equipment, but this women spent forty more years at her beloved convenience store. Recently retired, this girl has put her feet up and is enjoying having some time to herself. So, without further ado, let me introduce you to, the incomparable, slightly alcohol soaked, but very much still my wife: Fiona!'
Instead of simply saying:
Hi Jack, I don't think you've met my wife Fiona.
It's understandable perhaps, or indeed perhaps it is not...that sufferers of Parkinson disease need to remind you constantly...that they're not from Britain...in fact not even from England...but are from the wondrous place...that haven of good honest values...Yorkshire.
And of course it would most definitely not be sufficient to just mention this occasionally or reserve it for circumstances when someone asks you "What county are you from?", the county of origin of a Parkinson Disease victim, is constantly relayed in every nook and cranny of everyday conversation. Yorkshire...Yorkshire......Yorkshire.
Knee Touching[edit]
Parkinson disease suffers, unlike many others, have an uncontrollable, and some would say unnatural…I certainly wouldn't…urge to place their hand on the knees of members of their fairer sex that they're in conversation with. It's all very innocent of course, just a little stroke of the comedy area of a ladies leg. Marvellous Stuff!!
Boycott Variant[edit]
This strain of Parkinson disease is different you see. Much shorter, sharper sentences without nonsense. Do you see lad? Other symptoms same of course, ain't they? but instead of knee stroking there's much more female face slapping. Does 'em good I say.
Billy Connolly[edit]
Parkinson Disease sufferers show a somewhat - and to my understanding unnecessary - interest in the comedian Billy Connolly. It manifests to a great extent in an uncontrollable urge to repeatedly talk to him - or so it is often reported, along with fervent laughter when ever the Scottish comedian is, as it were, in the room.
Hunt for a Cure[edit]
Unfortunately, as we stand here today of all days, there's still no cure for this crippling disease. That's not to say of course, that there isn't a concerted effort…indeed a brave and wonderful effort, to find one. It's just, as many have said before of course...some who are no longer with us...that you can't break an egg, or indeed anything with a yoke in it, which people will often argue, limits you to eggs, with, what is often called by the ruling class...a sledgehammer.
Current Research[edit]
It's interesting what is said above about a sledgehammer, because I would like to ask, if we are indeed trying to break an egg or nut with a sledgehammer or something...entirely...different...maybe even something more suited to a task like the edge of a saucepan, in the case of the nut or a nut-cracker in the case of the egg...or vice versa. In fact research as it is...it would be fair to say...is limited by both time and resources...much like an earlier record by the same composer, but this time with the original conductor from the much celebrated performance in Berlin in 1949 just four years before the Second World War would start in earnest for the second time, very much in the tradition of the original author, who would use a more classical edwardian style, previously mentioned, I think by the great Mohammed Ali.


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Red Sox Announce Winners of 2012 Minor League Awards
By Pawtucket Red Sox | September 22, 2012 5:59 AM
The Boston Red Sox today announced right-handed pitcher Brandon Workman has been named the team's Minor League Pitcher of the Year and shortstop Xander Bogaerts has been named Minor League Offensive Player of the Year. The club has tabbed outfielder Jackie Bradley as the Defensive Player of the Year with third baseman Garin Cecchini receiving the organization's Base Runner of the Year Award. Right-handed pitcher Keivin Heras and outfielder Manuel Margot represent the Dominican Summer League Red Sox as Minor League Latin Program Pitcher and Player of the Year.
Also being honored is outfielder Daniel Nava, the organization's winner of the Lou Gorman Award. Created in 2011, the award is given annually to a Red Sox minor league player who has demonstrated dedication and perseverance in overcoming obstacles while working his way to the Major League team.
The 2012 Minor League Awards are selected by the Red Sox baseball operations department and minor league roving instructors. The recipients will be honored during a pre-game, on-field ceremony today as the Red Sox continue their series with the Baltimore Orioles.
Workman combined to go 10-8 with a 3.50 ERA (54 ER/138.2 IP) and 130 strikeouts in 25 starts between High-A Salem and Double A-Portland. The 24-year-old ranked among organizational minor league leaders in strikeouts (T-2nd) and wins (4th), and among Carolina League leaders in ERA (4th, 3.40), WHIP (2nd, 1.09) and opponent batting average (2nd, .244). He was named Carolina League Pitcher of the Week for April 23-29 after tossing a 6.0-inning, three-hit shutout in a start on April 27. Workman was selected by the Red Sox in the second round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft.
The 19-year-old Bogaerts hit .307 (146-for-476) with 37 doubles, three triples, 20 home runs, 81 RBI and 44 walks in 127 games with High-A Salem and Double-A Portland, including a .326 average (30-for-92) in 23 games for the Sea Dogs. He was named Carolina League Player of the Week for July 30-August 5 and was selected as a Carolina League Mid-Season All-Star. He also represented the Red Sox organization at the 2012 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, playing for the World team. After an August 9 promotion to Double-A, Bogaerts hit safely in 19 of 23 games with Portland, including 10 multi-hit contests. Named to Baseball America's 2012 Minor League All-Star Second-Team, he ranked among organizational minor league leaders in home runs (T-2nd), RBI (3rd) and batting (T-4th). Bogaerts signed with the Red Sox as an international free agent in August of 2009.
Bradley committed just seven errors in 260 chances for a .973 fielding percentage in 115 games between right field (1 game) and center field (114 games) with High-A Salem and Double-A Portland. He batted .315 (146-for-463) with 42 doubles, four triples, nine home runs, 87 walks and 63 RBI in 128 games with Salem and Portland. The 22-year-old hit .359 (84-for-234) with 26 doubles, 34 RBI and 52 walks for Salem before making his Double-A debut on June 21. Bradley was named Topps Player of the Month in the Carolina League for May, batting .382 (34-for-89) with 21 walks to lead all CL hitters. He ranked second in Boston's minor league system in batting average, was selected as a Carolina League Mid-Season All-Star and named to Baseball America's 2012 Minor League All-Star Second Team. Bradley was selected as the fourth pick by the Red Sox (sandwich pick between the 1st and 2nd rounds, 40th overall) in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
The 21-year-old Cecchini led the Red Sox organization with 51 stolen bases for Single-A Greenville, third-most in the South Atlantic League, and was caught stealing just six times for an 89.4 percent success rate. He led qualifying South Atlantic League third basemen with a .944 fielding percentage, committing 14 errors in 251 chances. Named a South Atlantic League Mid-Season All-Star, he ranked among league leaders in doubles (T-3rd, 38) and runs scored (T-4th, 84). Cecchini was selected as the sixth pick by the Red Sox (4th round, 143rd overall) in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft.
Heras was 6-1 with a 2.03 ERA (14 ER/62.0 IP) in 13 starts for the Dominican Summer League Red Sox. Named a DSL All-Star, the 18-year-old held opponents to one earned run or less in nine of his 13 starts. He led the team in wins (tied) and innings pitched.
Margot hit .285 (74-for-260) with 10 doubles, 45 RBI, 36 walks and 33 stolen bases in 68 games for the DSL Red Sox. The 17-year-old ranked third among DSL leaders with 33 stolen bases and was selected as a Dominican Summer League All-Star. He paced the club in hits, RBI, stolen bases, runs (49) and total bases (110).
Nava had served as equipment manager for his college baseball team at Santa Clara University before transferring to the College of San Mateo where he hit over .400 in two seasons. He returned to Santa Clara for his senior year and led the West Coast Conference in hitting (.395) and on-base percentage (.495) in 2006 but went undrafted out of college. He was cut from the Chico Outlaws in the independent Golden League before being called back and named top Independent League prospect by Baseball America in 2007. Nava signed with the Red Sox as a minor league free agent in January of 2008. Making his Major League debut at 27-years-old on June 12, 2010, Nava hit a grand slam in his first pitch seen, becoming the second Major Leaguer ever to do so. After appearing in 60 Big League games in 2010, he spent the 2011 season with Triple-A Pawtucket and was outrighted from Boston's 40-man roster during that season. Nava attended minor league Spring Training this year and started the season with Pawtucket before being selected to the Major League roster on May 10. Despite two trips to the disabled list due to a left wrist sprain, Nava has appeared in 78 games with Boston this year, the second-most among Red Sox outfielders in 2012.
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Professional wrestler Jessy "Jesse" Sorensen remains hospitalized after suffering a broken neck during the TNA promotion's "Against All Odds" pay-per-view event Sunday night in Orlando. TNA president Dixie Carter (not to be confused with the late Designing Women star) said in a statement Sorensen cracked his C1 vertebra and had spinal cord swelling.
He's still in intensive care, where Inside Pulse reports he has feeling in his legs, but cannot move them. Despite this, doctors expect a full recovery per ProWrestling.net.
Obviously, any "news" from the world of pro wrestling carries with it a reasonable doubt of veracity. But the video suggests there was definitely a botched move of some sort from Zema Ion (né Michael Paris) and the match referee clearly displays differing nonverbal signals when talking to Sorensen after the incident as opposed to when the referee returned to the ring to count Sorensen out.
The injury comes at a bad time for TNA, which is already mired in a worker's compensation lawsuit that alleges the company engages in practices dangerous to its employees. Even worse, it's alleged the promotion has avoided medical coverage for wrestlers who suffer real injuries inside the squared circle. But, then, if everything was worked, there wouldn't be a need for worker's compensation.


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Overshadowed in popular culture by the Atari VCS, the Fairchild Channel F is little more today than the answer to a trivia stumper: the first game console to use cartridges. And this man built it.
Reader Knoxximus passed along this interview, from February, with Jerry Lawson, who was the director of engineering and marketing for Fairchild Semiconductor's video game division. He was a contemporary of men named Jobs, Wozniak and Bushnell. In his garage he created one of the first coin-operated games after Pong. Its success led Fairchild to tap him for a super secret project to bring a game from an Intel 8080 processor over to the Fairchild's F8 - the CPU of the Channel F.
He was also, and this has to be said, an African-American man in a field that was overwhelmingly white in the 1970s. It's not to say Lawson faced overt barriers to his work because of his ethnicity. Mostly, people who met him expressed surprise that he was black, because none of his contemporaries ever referred to his race, just what he did. But Lawson's work on console gaming is another contribution to our culture that is not commonly credited to the black community.
On Father's Day 2009, the era of ROM-based console gaming seems on the cusp of its long denouement, with downloadable content on the rise and the cloud on the horizon. But let's take a moment to consider one of the true fathers of video gaming: Jerry Lawson.
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VC&G Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer [Vintage Computing and Gaming, thanks Knoxximus]


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Often, midstream and well head gases require removal of many of the various hydrocarbon species contained within the natural gas. Some of these gases include heptane, pentane, propane, and other hydrocarbons with molecular weights above methane (CH4) to produce a natural gas fuel which is used to operate the natural gas engines for further pressurized transmission. Typically, natural gas compressors require 950 to 1050 BTU per cubic foot to operate at the natural gas engines rotational name plate specifications.
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Cell adhesion is an important aspect of many biological processes. The atomic force microscope (AFM) has made it possible to quantify the forces involved in cellular adhesion using a technique called single cell force spectroscopy (SCFS). AFM based SCFS offers versatile control over experimental conditions for probing directly the interaction between specific cell types and specific proteins, surfaces, or other cells. Transmembrane integrins are the primary proteins involved in cellular adhesion to the extra cellular matix (ECM). One of the chief integrins involved in the adhesion of leukocyte cells is αMβ2 (Mac-1). The experiments in this dissertation quantify the adhesion …
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Bobby Ross got much of the credit for Maryland's short reign as the most dominant team in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the mid 1980s, but Joe Krivak was often referred to as the guru and play-caller for a string of record-setting Terps quarterbacks.
Krivak, who died Tuesday after battling leukemia, tutored a line of Maryland quarterbacks that began with Boomer Esiason and Frank Reich, included Stan Gelbaugh and Dan Henning, and ended with Neil O'Donnell and Scott Zolak after Krivak succeeded Ross as head coach in 1987.
Krivak was 77.
When he finally became a college head coach at age 51, Krivak said: "This is my shot. I'm either going to retire out of this job or get fired."
Krivak, who had previously worked as an assistant under Jerry Claiborne at Maryland and George Welsh at Navy, lasted five years at the head of the Terps' program.
While his tenure was not very successful — a 20-34-2 record and only one winning season — Krivak took over when the athletic department was still reeling from the death of basketball star Len Bias from a cocaine overdose in June 1986.
"It was very tough time with all that was going at Maryland, but he did a good job," Ross, who left for Georgia Tech in 1987, recalled Wednesday. "Joe was a good football coach, but far more important, he was a great human being."
Ross said Krivak didn't get the recognition he deserved as the play-caller for Maryland teams that won three straight ACC titles from 1983 through 1985.
While many recall the famous 1984 comeback the Terps made from a 31-0 halftime deficit against Miami to win, 42-40, Ross said: "We also scored over 50 points the next two games against Clemson and Virginia."
"We are saddened to learn about the passing of Joe Krivak, " Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said in a statement. "Joe was an accomplished coach who played an instrumental role in one of the most successful periods in the history of Maryland football. He tutored some of the most prolific quarterbacks to play in College Park and helped develop them for future success in the NFL. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Krivak family."
Current Maryland coach Randy Edsall tweeted: "Our prayers go out to the Krivak family as Coach lost his battle with Leukemia yesterday."
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Bobby Ross got much of the credit for Maryland's short reign as the most dominant team in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the mid 1980s, but Joe Krivak was often referred to as the guru and play-caller for a string of record-setting Terps quarterbacks.


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Jon Heron
posted on Friday, November 11, 2011 - 12:26 am
Hi Bengt/Linda
I am simulating a linear growth model (3 repeat measures) with a single continuous
distal outcome regressed on both intercept and slope.
Having already specified "Y on I S;" I don't seem to be able to add a correlation between slope and the residual for my outcome (endogeneity?) - is this possible?
We are currently investigating instances when a two-stage model (regressing Y on fscores/BLUPS) causes bias hence I'm attempting to covary res(Y) with aspects of the growth model. As I type this, I'm wondering if I need to define my Y-residual explicity as a N(0,1) with a unit loading on the outcome.
many thanks as always
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 11, 2011 - 11:42 am
That parameter is not identified. You could experiment by fixing it at different values.
Jon Heron
posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 - 12:34 am
Thanks Linda
Jon Heron
posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 9:40 am
Hi Bengt/Linda
as mentioned above, I have recently been simulating some simple LGM models.
We have been debating the pros and cons of allowing different parameters to vary across simulated datasets and have reached the conclusion that for our purposes the only aspect to vary would be the residuals for the repeated measures.
Noticing that in the Mplus manual (e.g. example 12.2) the majority of the parameters under MODEL POPULATION are merely freed at starting values, I set about fixing most of these in line with the model we wanted to simulate from. Note that I didn't change the fitted MODEL itself, merely the model I was simulating from.
This led to the discovery that the MODEL RESULTS appeared totally unchanged. Does it sound like I have done something wrong or is it not possible to fix parameters in this way?
many thanks, Jon
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 5:58 pm
Marking the parameters as fixed or free in Model Population command has no effect - only the values are used to generate data. It is in the Model command that fixed or free makes a difference because there they refer to the role of the parameter in the analysis (not the generation). I often copy the Model Population parameters and paste them into Model and therefore use in Model Population a combination of fixed and free as I would for the analysis.
Jon Heron
posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 1:19 am
Ah I see, thanks Bengt
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College volleyball team (3-9, 1-4 PBC) took the first set from USC Aiken (8-4, 3-1 PBC), but the Pacers rallied for the final three in a loss for the Bobcats at the Centennial Center Wednesday night.
Georgia College edged the Pacers 25-23 in the first set, getting five kills from Rachel Reynolds (Marietta, Ga.). The Pacers evened out the affair with a 25-21 second set, then dominated set three 25-14. The Bobcats wouldn't let USCA off easy in the fourth, going to extra points at a 26-24 finish.
Neither team posted a lead of more than five points in the fourth set, that lead belonging to the Bobcats at 11-6. After surrendering the lead, the Bobcats tied it at 22, 23 and 24. The Pacers got blocks on the final two possessions for the 26-24 final, both coming from the pair of Ashley Deidrich and Hannah Tierney.
Reynolds led all players with 18 kills, hitting .250. Adding in a pair of blocks and a service ace, Reynolds attributed 20 points. Caroline Long (Roswell, Ga.) matched her season-best with nine kills, hitting a solid .263.
Ashton Bigler (Fairborn, Ga.) and Caroline Ham (Marietta, Ga.) tied for the team lead with 18 digs, aided by 10 for Micayla Patterson (Tyrone, Ga.). Patterson notched her third double-double of the season with 43 assists. Ham tallied six assists as well. Ashley Savransky (Roswell, Ga.) added 11 points to the fray with eight kills, two aces and a pair of blocks.
The Bobcats hit .160 on the night, bettered by USC Aiken's .225. The Pacers put three in double-digit kills, 13 from Taylor Stratton, 11 from Deidrich and 10 from Tierney.
The net game hurt the Bobcats tonight, as the Pacers had a blocking advantage of 15-5, including 6-1 in the final set.
The Bobcats are back in action Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m., hosting Lander University.
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"Sustainably-high self-esteem" is the highest good. Obviously there are distinctions between having a high opinion of yourself without proper justification and actually possessing those qualities which sustainably lead one to feel a proper sense of accomplishment and self-worth. Specifically, it is those qualities which enable the spread of self-esteem amongst others in one's in-groups (organisms), and even beyond, those qualities which make others feel good about themselves so that they make others feel good about themselves, etc., ad infinitum, which are truly the most valuable qualities there can be. Of course, these qualities are tied to the natural world, in the ways which make us more successful organisms, and so they are the qualities most closely associated with having power, which is why power is often mistaken to be the highest good. And this is also why taking the means (power) as the end itself (s-e) often leads to false pride, and the destruction of s-e in others, and eventually (given enough time) in the self. The distinction here is between constructive power and destructive power, with the former being a proper means to the end and the latter not. Another consequence of this is that selfishness, seeing oneself as valuable in isolation of others, is destructive to the soul (by which of course I only mean the psyche and the emotional energies which provide us with s-e). As social beings, we need to see ourselves as belonging to a larger group (organism), and this means that the more we are able to include others within our own concept of the self, the more our s-e is tied up with the s-e of others. If we feel cut off from meaningful relationships with others, our feelings of self-worth dwindle. It is in both feeling connected to others, and feeling useful/powerful enough to them to engender mutually-reinforcing s-e, that we make our real living as human beings and achieve our full potential and full actualization of our values.
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That kind of cutoff makes me feel like I've been preached at; that I listened to the 'sermon' and responded with certain critical questions about it, but all I received in reply was a repetition of the sermon (against the same straw men, no less) and eventually the 'authoritative closure' that brushes aside those questions which don't fit inside the "divine" scriptures.
I expect as much when talking with pastors, clergymen, rabbis, etc. but it's somewhat disappointing to run into it so easily here.
So what you're saying, Drake, is that you feel affronted? You feel as if you haven't been appreciated, as if you haven't been treated according to how you think you should have been, appropriately to the value you believe you represent? I.e. your motivations, to feel respected and appreciated according to your self-esteem, have taken a hit? :-)
Not quite, as it wasn't a self-focused reaction. I'd call it "bored by the predictable"; it's when the odds are against something really interesting happening, but there's still disappointment when it falls through.
I was betting against the shackles of concept-visibility, that our minds must rely on past experiences to envision or conceptualize new things. In the reverse, it's the issue that people have no awareness of that which they do not already know-- which forces essentially every debate to close at an impasse because of differences in experience.
My tack thus far has been to refine and polish high-level insights to such a degree that they provide instant recognition of matching experiences, regardless of the reader's background. While this should be possible, I've found it consistently foiled by the aperture of attention; people filter out anything they aren't expecting to hear, so there's never a chance to connect with their unrecognized experiences.
So my disappointment is at the triple-blind of concept-visibility: that we can't imagine without knowing, that we can't see without imagining, and that we forget what goes unseen.
My every attempt as yet to short-circuit that chain has failed, so I've had to conclude that my previous tack cannot succeed. Showing people insight, no matter how accessible, isn't sufficient. It's clear that I need a new way to attack this problem, but I admit to having no leads at the moment.
Enough detail for you?
Drake, all you have basically just said is, "I'm smarter than you are, I can just see things you can't", etc., blah blah blah. But you are right about one thing; we are at an impasse. Good evening!
What I said is that we possess different histories. We've seen different things, looked at different issues, and gathered different experiences. As a result, we have some overlap, but we also each have visibility in areas where we have diverged. You presented a picture, and I suggested additional pieces for it with the intent of gaining a broader picture myself once the pieces had been fit together.
Somehow the explanation of concept-visibility, no matter how softly I present it, seems to draw defensive reactions. Is it really that thorny of an issue to notice that we are finite and mortal beings (and hence have limitations)? Or is it driven by a perceived subtext of attitudes, status, etc. read into those words?
Well, perhaps the problem then, Drake, is that you only suggested that it was me who was somehow suffering from the blind spots you try to explain. If you were instead just saying that either one of us might be wrong, mistaken, or overlooking something which would have moved my discussion along on a more fruitful path, then you should have chosen much different language. From the language that you did choose, forgive me for thinking that you aren't being honest with me.
"My tack thus far has been to refine and polish high-level insights to such a degree that they provide instant recognition of matching experiences, regardless of the reader's background. While this should be possible, I've found it consistently foiled by the aperture of attention; people filter out anything they aren't expecting to hear, so there's never a chance to connect with their unrecognized experiences."
Uhhuh, and meanwhile what has my tack been, to suggest low-level insights as roughly and indecipherably as I can? You could have just said we are not seeing eye to eye, but attempting to explain why this is so in a meta-explanation of why people just don't understand stuff isn't suddenly going to reveal who is missing what. Perhaps it is you who is failing in this regard?
"Showing people insight, no matter how accessible, isn't sufficient. It's clear that I need a new way to attack this problem".
Yeah, people are so dumb. It's just so hard to get through to some people! Geez, if only there was a way to get people to realize just how stupid they are being! Wait, there's only two of us in this discussion. So, you or me?
it is not any single organism against which we should judge whether an action is right or wrong - it is against all possible organisms, present and future, to which we must look.
A point I would press further here - this is how we should judge which organisms we should wish to belong to, and which organisms we should shun. The ones that uphold the virtues of organicism, like tolerance, mutual respect, interconnectedness, a balanced approach between cooperation and competition, individualism and collectivism, organismic strength, willpower and self-restraint, organismic integrity, honesty, devotion (but not blindly), organismic motivation, a general affinity for others, and power distributions that both reward for hard work and talent (organismic powers) and motivate and empower across the whole organism, these are the organisms we should strive to belong to and become like. The ones that demonstrate intolerance or disrespect, fall too far to the extremes of competition or cooperation, individualism or collectivism, that impoverishes some of its members unduly or causes some of its organs or cells to atrophy and become stifled or starved, those that demand blind obedience or mistake weakness for strength, or strength for weakness, those that encourage dishonesty, or demand blind devotion, or ask for too little devotion, that are demotivating to its members, or engender misanthropy or hatred (or worship) of any kind, that rewards underhanded strategies (lying, cheating, stealing, etc.) and under-rewards real organismic virtues, or that favor and provide undue power to some of its organs or cells and not to others without organismic justification, those organisms should be shunned.
Why must these sorts of exchanges (almost) always result in an intellectual pissing contest? This is why I shy away from debate. Fact of the matter is no one individual will ever agree on everything, it's impossible. A healthy exchange of ideas is not only usful but neccesary, to cultivate the advancement of thought.
just my observation,
-cheers to both
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Built on the OCLC WorldShare Platform and WorldCat knowledge base, License Manager helps library staff more effectively manage the selection, purchase and availability of databases and e-resources. This new service consolidates link resolution, subscriptions, licenses, vendor information, access and rights management to enable Webscale management, discovery and delivery of licensed and electronic resources.
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The contract talks between Victor Cruz and the New York Giants went silent down the stretch of the regular season. Apparently there was a reason.
"It got tabled for a couple weeks, mainly because of the two sides agreeing to disagree at the same time," Cruz said on WFAN Radio, according to ESPNNewYork.com. "Now that the season's over and the statistics are what they are, I think we're going to get back and pick up the pen again and see what we can do."
Cruz was voted to the Pro Bowl for the first time after catching 86 passes for 1,092 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, although the Giants missed the playoffs. Cruz, who had 82 receptions for 1,536 yards and nine TDs in 2011, has remained upbeat about the negotiations.
"Obviously, you never know, it's all negotiations, but I feel positive that I'm gonna be in New York for a very long time," said Cruz, who'll be a restricted free agent in the offseason. "And I feel positive that myself and my agents will get something done with the management of the Giants.
"I feel comfortable where we're at. I think I've done enough to show them I'm a good guy on and off the field, and that I've done everything positive up until this point to prove that I'm somebody that the organization will want to keep around for a long time. I'm positive things will come around and a positive outcome will come out of all this."
This will get done one way or another. The Giants would not be very smart to develop the undrafted Cruz into a Pro Bowl receiver, then let him leave as he enters his prime.
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Melrose is a city which is a little bit north of Boston. It pretty much sucks, but it has a lot of pizza places.
"I went to Melrose last night."
by chupachipmunk April 26, 2006
Melrose is a small town north of Boston neighboring Saugus and Wakefield. It was founded by pompus rich victorian dudes in the early 20th century, becuase they were to cool to share the same city as all the poor people, so they built their own. It was originally named "Pondview" due to the beautiful Ell Pond in our town that they liked to look at. But at some point the name was changed to "Melrose" which means Paradise in Latin. Today, Melrose is, well, not paradise, but it is a middle-upper class city with a surprising amount of drug stores (5 to be exact, more than Wakefield, which is 3x larger than Melrose)and old people. Melrose is pretty small and worthless, and if an atom bomb destroyed it, I don't think many people would notice. No one cool came from Melrose (Except Andy Mac, pro skateboarder) and that's probably because Melrose has some hypnotic trance on people that once you come here, you must make babies, and never leave. I know countless people who have lived in Melrose their whole lives. That's sad. Despite being such a small town, Melrose has a huge drug problem. We are the 3rd worst city in Middlesex county with a drug problem at our public high school, and that's saying a lot, knowing Middlesex county is the 2nd largest county in the USA. Every year Melrose has what we call "Victorians Day" which is so we never forget our high and mighty ancestors who founded this town. No one really understands it, it's a Melrose thing. Also, Ell Pond today is a toxic pond with no living creatures in it, although they did find a dead psychopath in it last year. The main rival to Melrose is Wakefield, who Melrose has lost to for 14 years. Other than all that Melrose is cool, the compliments our city typically gets are "Cute. Quaint. Easy." So it's pretty boring in Melrose, but hey, if your a high schooler looking for drugs, an old person, or just a fan of Lake Wobegon, come visit.
"I'm going up to Melrose"
"Melrose: A self sufficent community, a placewhere no one wants to come to, yet a place that no one ever leaves."
"Melrose: A self sufficent community, a placewhere no one wants to come to, yet a place that no one ever leaves."
by Pamps November 18, 2007
A small square mile WW2 veteran town in midnorthern florida, that consists of all the qualities and sections in a city, but confined into a small area. you can walk from the ghettos to the rich neighborhood in 5 min. The town Consists of very few adolesent citizens but they hold a strong sense of nationalism for their home town. Though once a rich popular town known for its rich history and famous orange groves, it has been abandoned by the upperclass after the great freeze of 1893. now it is home to about 2000 people and many small businesses. The strong pride of the city brings together the youth and causes them to raise the towns image to be known as the best town to live in in the area, and each person who lives there has become known for their representation of it.Though many people from the surrounding towns try to lower its image due to spite and jealousy,The 352 crew, the town's gangs of hoodlums, have kept the image at an ultimate high. The Towns Home to Pro Football player Doug Johnson, and Pro Skateboarder Ben Steele. The Town is expected to be soon to make a large uprising and dominations over the the 4 counties that it in the middle of. Putnam, Alachua, bradford, and clay county all meet within the Melrose city limits. It is local belief that the zip code (32666) when written or displayed on a person is a symbol of power and rule over the rest of the people in these counties. As the Town's prosperity continues to grow, so does the the respect and pride for its continuing greatness. respect.
Damn, interlachen sucks, i wish i lived in Melrose . At least you actually have paved roads.
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STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — In its latest experiment with live coverage of mundane events, Norway's public broadcasting network plans to dedicate five hours of air-time to an attempt to break the knitting world record.
The NRK network says the Nov. 1 broadcast will be preceded by a four-hour documentary on how the wool off a sheep's back turns into a sweater.
NRK producer Rune Moeklebust said Friday that "it's kind of ordinary TV but very slow, although they'll be knitting as fast as they can."
The Norwegians hope to break the current non-stop knitting record of 4 hours 50 minutes, held by Australia.
Live TV in Norway has already enticed viewers with minute-by-minute salmon fishing, a five-day broadcast from a cruise-ship, and several hours of watching a fire burn itself out.


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Brand Name Bike At Discount Store Price
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Tough to beat this performance at this price point.
It's pretty safe to assume we're a bit like you. How so? Well, for starters we get excited about the mere possibility of high end bikes with carbon fiber goodies, the latest suspension components and price tags that easily rival that of a very nice used car. And yet each month a majority of reader feedback centers on the bikes we test that cost a fraction of the latest, greatest, wunderkind. See it turns out that MBT is read by many real world riders who care less about status symbols than they do getting out there and enjoying the trails. To that we say kudos!
See? We told you we were a bit like you, but you didn't believe us. Where was this going? Oh yes…
Enter the Felt Q720, a bike that looks in person every bit as modest as it does on paper (or in pixels as the case may be). While many instantly associate the Felt brand name with ultra-expensive featherweight race bikes (ourselves included) it turns out that the gang from planet F has even the most budget conscious riders in mind when they designed the $800 Q720 aluminum hardtail. Could this bike be all that separates you from a summer filled with blissful exploration? Read on to find out.
The Spec Sheet
Well for $800 you would probably expect to find a few no-name pieces and bits connected to the matte gray frame but try as we may, we were quite unable to locate any. Squish (frontal only) duties come via the coil sprung RockShox Dart 2 (4 inches of travel), WTB rims wrapped in Maxxis Ignitor rubber, Hayes Sole hydraulic disc brakes all around, Truvativ Iso-Flow cranks and chain rings, Shimano Deore shifters and front derailleur (XT rear). About the only components that come from in-house are the Felt branded aluminum riser bar and saddle. Not a bad ensemble for the price of admission.
|Felt Q720
|6061 Aluminum, Hydroformed Top tube, Externally Butted Tubing, Semi-Integrated HT, 3D Forged Dropouts
|RockShox Dart 2, Turnkey lockout, Preload Adjust, 28mm steel stanchons, 100mm travel
|Brakes/Brake Levers
|Hayes So1e
|Truvativ Iso-Flow
|Deore Rapid fire
|Derailleurs (F&R)
|Shimano Deore/Shimano XT
|Semi Integrated
|WTB SX-24 Double-Wall Rims w/eyelets, Shimano RM-65 Centerlock hubs
|Tires (F&R)
|Maxxis 2.1 Ignitor
|Felt Bikes
Sizing It Up
So what's it like to gaze upon the Felt Q720? To be totally honest, it is nearly indecipherable from afar from their multi thousand offerings. About the biggest giveaway to the budget-minded nature of the Q720 would have to be the Rock Shox Dart fork. If you were to swap this unit for anything that the upper echelon of the suspension world has to offer, it would take a very trained eye indeed to suspect that this bike isn't upper echelon racer-boy special. But then again, the purpose of this test isn't to point out the ruse of the Q720's appearance.
Climbing on board provides a nice upright pedaling position, which puts ample rider weight over the front of the bike. In the cockpit, everything feels clean and simple, much like the bike itself. About the only adjustment we made was to the height of the saddle to accommodate the various leg lengths of our test riders. Other than that, this bike is a very simple exercise in hopping on and hammering away.
The Ride
Drop the cranks and the bike powers out cleanly. Make no mistake, she is pretty chunky for a hard tail (about 30 lbs) and that heft is most apparent when the ground begins to tilt skyward. However, thanks to a seating position that doesn't hang the rider's weight too far off the rear of the bike, steering is quite precise and lively. We expected the front to wash out in tight switchbacks but it held its line quite effectively. And being a hard tail, power always feels directly plugged into the ground. Each crank rotation results in a surge of forward movement; truly no energy feels wasted in the process.
However, the test wasn't without it's fair share of complaints. For starters this is hard tail country and while this may mean crank pumps that send the bike into motion, it also means back jarring impact on rocks, slapper landings, and roots. We're not here to add fuel to the whole hard tail versus full suspension debate (that's what forums are for), we can testify that for east coast slop and trail clutter; the Felt presents a sketchy ride. While the front tire always remained planted in its intended line, we had no trouble finding terrain that would toss the back end around like a sailboat in the Bermuda Triangle.
Shifting was smooth so long as the rider was willing to back off the cranks a little bit just before hand. We experienced some skipping (and even some bent teeth) thanks to up-shifts while giving her the go juice. The SRAM PC-951 chain is good stuff, but maybe even too good when you consider that it gives so little that we managed to bend the teeth on the large ring.
The fork was actually better than we anticipated. Considering the Dart series replaced the long standing Judy line of budget suspension, we immediately feared the worst. However, the unit actually offers some pretty smooth damping with a plethora of customizable options including lock out (with blow off) adjustable rebound and compression. However, keep in mind that it is coil sprung meaning sag is set with the preload dial rather than by PSI in the chamber. This also means a weight penalty as the Dart 2 weighs in at nearly 5 and a half pounds. No it's not like pushing a boulder with the front wheel but it does make lofting the front end to get over unexpected clutter a bit more of a chore than it should be. Also be sure to properly set the rebound adjustment, we began our test with far too little and managed to top the fork out with a scary clank when pre loading on the face of a jump.
Some may say we were a bit hard on the Q720 but in truth the bike has serious potential. The asking price is certainly right on for the spec sheet it boasts and the Felt name on the down tube is worth half that much alone. About the biggest area in need of addressing is the bike's weight. 30 pounds has become the benchmark for affordable full suspension designs while hard tails have easily slipped down into the mid and under 20s. We here at MBT aren't big fans of the hard tail way of life but are willing to endure it when it shaves five or six pounds off the full squish models we're used to. As it stands, the Q720 really offers no benefits for enduring the backache that's sure to accompany long days in the saddle, but it does ring up as a good value.
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The ballot initiative fight has gotten stale and the presidential race isn't taking place in California, so political scuttlebutt has focused on the future, and on rising politicians.
Who will emerge as mayor of Los Angeles? Who might run for governor in 2014? Who might one day succeed Sens. Boxer or Feinstein?
There's one thing that all the people being talked about have in common: They are successes, or at least argue that they are successes. There are successful mayors and successful prosecutors and successful businesspeople and successful actors.
The advance of successful folks -- and the argument that success is a qualification for office -- is so common that we don't think about them.
So here's an important question we never hear: Does California in 2012 need successful people as its elected leaders?
Or to put it more pointedly: Is a success the best person to govern in a failed state?
California certainly is a successful place, by most measures. But in matters of government and governance, it's a failure.
The state doesn't work because it has a complicated system that is really a messy compilation of three contradictory systems (majoritarian elections, supermajority-mad legislative and budget rules, and an inflexible initiative process).
Since the state is ungovernable, its government is able to do less and less to meet challenges. And its major public institutions -- its prisons, its public schools -- are declining.
Governing such a state is not about success, since success isn't possible in the system. It's really about managing, and mitigating, failure. So that question again, asked in a different way:
Wouldn't a person with a healthy record of failure, and managing failed institutions, be the best fit for governing California in the 21st century?
I suspect the answer might be yes.
It's not a crazy idea. One of America's best presidents, Harry Truman, was, famously, a failed haberdasher. Ronald Reagan, revered by many, wasn't much of a success as an actor.
So if California needs failures in office, here's the good news: We have plenty of them.
Indeed, fortunately, California has plenty of people with recent, relevant experience of financial failure -- even bankruptcy. The state that was ground zero for the collapse of housing has any number of people with executive experience running enterprises into the ground.
So why not, say, Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo for governor?
He knows firsthand about all kinds of problem and issues: debt, unsustainable economic models, and the perils of political influence and corruption. (Remember all the elected officials who received special deals from Countrywide?)
And the actions of his company and similar firms are still a big factor in the state's housing troubles -- and its larger economic troubles. I'll bet Mozilo has well-informed ideas about how to deal with these problems.
And, at the grassroots, the state has no shortage of folks who know firsthand the folly of spending more than you take in. Maybe the folks who lost homes and took on mortgages they couldn't afford could bring those hard lessons to the state Assembly and city councils.
There's a moral logic here: Let the people who helped wreck things fix it. They should serve the public by helping clean up the mess they helped create.
Of course, failures aren't limited to housing. There are bankers and construction firms and small businesses out there. There are thousands of laid off public workers who have firsthand experience with the consequences of poor budget management and cuts. Could they turn that hard-won knowledge into smarter governance?
Now, many of these failures lost rather quickly with the coming of the Great Recession. But perhaps a slower, steadier failure might make sense for jobs -- like, say, presiding over the slow dismantling of the University of California and California State University systems.
In my own career, I know of one class of workers who are expert at presiding over long, slow, never-ending decline: newspaper editors.
Many of them are out of work. Maybe they should try the state Senate.


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Just wanted to say thank you for arranging such a great honeymoon in Norway for Gill and I. The Bergen, Geiranger & Ålesund trip was fantastic and we were very glad of the extra couple of days added on in Bergen and Alesund... Our friends and family are all impressed at the scenery and towns we visited in Norway. I tell them all about Taber Holidays so hopefully they keep the name in mind if they travel in Scandinavia themselves.
This was our first holiday in Norway. We visited Oslo and then took the wonderful train journey to Bergen. We then drove north along the fjords by hire car with all the accommodation booked for us in advance.
Taber were excellent throughout showing their knowledge of Norway and Taber's advice and attention to detail especially regarding my wife's mobility needs was exceptional. The holiday was tailor made to our requests while suggesting changes where it was felt appropriate.
Thank you for arranging such a great honeymoon in Norway for Gill and I. The Bergen, Geiranger & Ålesund trip was fantastic and we were very glad of the extra couple of days added on in Bergen and Alesund... Our friends and family are all impressed at the scenery and towns we visited in Norway. I tell them all about Taber Holidays so hopefully they keep the name in mind if they travel in Scandinavia themselves.
We took a "public transport" 8 night break arranged by Taber Holidays, to Bergen, then via Hurtigruten to Geiranger, and on to Alesund. Excellent travel arrangements and accommodation throughout. We were fortunate to have superb weather (for Norway) but in addition the itinerary had clearly been well thought out, and succeeded in providing a varied and interesting holiday.
Taber were helpful and efficient. They market themselves as Nordic specialists, and clearly demonstrated their knowledge of the region.
Our holiday was a driving holiday around Arctic Norway starting from Tromso, then visiting Alta, Honnigsvag,Hammerfest, overnight on Hurtigruten to Svolvaer in the Lofotens, a couple of days there before heading to Narvik and then back to Tromso.
From booking the holiday to the support we received up to and during the holiday Taber Holidays were superb. Shortly before our departure there was a hotel strike in Norway and it is at times like this you find out how good your tour operator really is. We were kept fully informed and our hotels seamlessly rearranged from those closed by the strike without any hassle on our part. As part of our pre-departure information we were given a travel guide book which proved invaluable and much more informative than the well known travel guides books we'd bought ourselves. Superb customer service and knowing what their travellers need.
Everything went so smoothly. We enjoyed all our excursions, both pre-booked (such as the glacier hike, climb up pulpit rock and trip to Fjaerland and the glacier centre) and organised spontaneously by us (such as a climb up to Raudmelen in Balestrand and a RIB ride to Naerofjord). We loved wandering around Stavanger, Bergen, Norheimsund and Balestrand, and driving around experiencing the roads, tunnels, bridges, views and vistas.
We would have no hesitation in recommending your services to others looking for a holiday in Norway.
Hi Terry,
Have your ears been burning these last two weeks? Everyday we have talked about you saying that from the word go ie on arrival at Keflavik Airport your instructions were clear and easy to follow - Car hire went extremely well - hotels were very good - your ideas for our days off were excellent and instructions from hotel to hotel were very clear too!
Thank you for the maps and information you sent us - we really enjoyed our holiday!
We have some fantastic memories!
We're just back from our Swedish holiday, and I wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your recommendations and organisation of our trip.
We enjoyed our week long glimpse of a lovely country. Particular highlights were Ystad, Kalmar Castle & the Stockholm Archipeligo, and we were blessed with some sunny weather!
Once again many thanks to you and the rest of the team at Taber Holidays.
Wonderful experience. One of the best organised holidays we've ever had. No hic-ups whatsoever. All documentation and transfers were spot on. The quality of the excursions, both in terms of organisation and content were excellent. Venue was out of this world!
Very helpful right from enquiry through to a couple of clarification questions just before we left. Extremely knowledgeable and passionate about their packages. All admin and paperwork spot on.
Just wanted to say we had a fantastic holiday and everything worked really well. We were lucky with the weather and managed to do everything we had planned. Mountain Taxis were great and Omar who was our own personal guide for the day gave us such a fantastic insight to the island.
Multiple locations, hotels and excursions. All requests for hotel quality, variety of transport and activities involving scenery and wildlife were accommodated. Taber correctly gauged the length of stay needed in each city and made good suggestions for days when no excursion was planned. All transfers were easy and perfectly organised. At no point did we feel "What do we do now?" Or "Where do we go?" At the same time we were travelling as a family, not as part of a larger herded group. The quality of the excursions was better than expected. Although groups were small (time of year) the operators were happy to spend time with us and made us feel very welcome. We stayed in some fabulous hotels, often with fantastic views - even in places where not every room had a view. All this significantly enhanced our holiday and were not features I would have been able to arrange myself. Taber really know what they are doing.
Taber were extremely helpful. It feels like a small company that really cares. They are also very knowledgeable and passionate about the destinations, and that enthusiasm is infectious. They tried to satisfy every request effectively and efficiently. Really good.


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I don't think it was coincidence last year that Victory's highest drawing games were against Sydney (i.e. the Melbourne/Sydney rivalry). Sydney being a very good side helped too, obviously (it was a top of the ladder clash at the time).Originally Posted by burkey_1988
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It would have been better if they made it 32 teams and kept two teams Thailand and Vietnam. But we are part of South East Asia and the current South East Asians sides have struggled in the ACL in generally so it wasn't that surprising. This is probably the first stage in us completely taking over ASEAN region, bring on the Tiger Cup.Originally Posted by Mister Wright
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Pretty disappointing news today with Tony Popovic choosing to move to Qatar instead of the A-League. How this isn't a sign of things to come and the FFA do something about this.
Actually, I think you'll find Tony Popovic has actually signed with the WWE...
Just pretty shattered that some of my best work is consigned to a thread where not many will see it.Originally Posted by burkey_1988
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