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Kim from KC Bakes, our favorite cake pop princess, is back to show you creative Push Pop ideas for Christmas and Hanukkah that you can adapt for any time of the year or for any holiday desserts. The winter holidays are a time of family, friends and food. Food is everywhere, especially holiday desserts… there are plates and pans of cakes, cookies & pie (oh my!).
If you are in charge of sweets for your holiday get-together, make sure you stand out from the crowd and bring something truly unique. Push Pops are sweeping the dessert world by storm... here's why.
Push Pops go by a few different names… push pops, push up pops, push up cakes, push cakes, etc. They are basically a plastic cylinder that has a stick that will literally push the container's contents up to the surface.
One of the most popular combinations for Push Pops is cake, frosting and sprinkles. Who needs plates and utensils? Cake Push Pops are mess-free and easy to serve.
Since the cylinder container is see-through, it's a great way to use color-themed food to match the occasion you're baking for.
For these Christmas-colored cakes, all you need is a box of cake mix, the ingredients it calls for and food coloring! White cake mix is preferable, as some vanilla cake mixes can have an off-white or yellow-ish hue.
When the green cake comes out of the oven, it doesn't look super pretty… see the top and sides? Fear not! This is just the "crust" or the sides of the cake that were exposed to the direct heat. Make an even slice across the cake and it will reveal a beautiful shade of green.
To get the perfect circle shape, use the actual Push Pop container itself to cut out discs of cake.
To add some extra flavor and texture, try adding crushed candy cane pieces in between the layers!
The holiday season can get expensive, and food shopping is no exception. Bags of candy cane pieces can range from $2.99 to $5.99 depending on the brand; don't even bother with those. A box of regular candy canes is $0.99 at AC Moore, just smash them up yourself. And let's be honest, it's more fun to whack them with a hammer! Just make sure you have the candy canes in a thick plastic bag – the broken pieces can pierce the bag as you smash them, and then you wind up with a mess all over your counter.
Feeling festive? Party City had these cute little Santa hats for $1 – they have little clips inside of them, so after your guests eat the pop, they can wear the hat!
The great thing about Push Pops is that you can decorate the outside of the container however you like since it does not come into contact with the food product inside. Meet… Rudolph the Red-Nosed Push Pop!
It's much easier to fill the container first, and then decorate, so let's do that first.
Now with all of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you may not have time to do a lot of baking. No problem! There are so many prepared desserts that you can convert into Push Pop fillers, and your party guests will never know.
This pre-sliced cake is perfect, it's already cut into even strips for you!
Using your Push Pop container, cut out discs of the cake and layer it in. I used Betty Crocker Cookie Icing in between the cake layers; it's a great product because it comes ready-to-go in a piping bag.
For Rudolph's features, you'll need googly eyes, red pom poms and brown pipe cleaners, or "chenille stems". To make the antlers, you'll need two shorter pieces, and one longer piece. Twist the shorter pieces at their middle around the longer piece and voilá – antlers!
The eyes and nose were easy to glue on, but the antlers didn't seem to want to stay in place. Cut some thin strips of clear tape to secure them in place; if you press the tape on well enough, it's barely noticeable.
For the more health conscious guests at the party, there are a lot of Christmas-colored fruits and veggies that you can layer in your Push Pops. Slice up some red and green bell peppers for the perfect hand-held appetizer, complete with ranch dressing inside of the container!
Now, since Hanukkah is already underway, I've got some more quick, no-bake ideas to fill your Push Pops. First up, brownie bites!
To jazz up the containers, I found these sparkly stickers at Party City as well.
Using teal and blue Wilton icing colors, tint your frosting as bold as you like. Remember to start off with just a little bit of dye, and add more as you go – you can always add more color, but you can't remove color if you "over-dye".
This pretty shape of icing (below) was made using a flower tip (metal icing tip, shown above).
Ta da – the finished product, ready for a Hanukkah gathering!
A word of caution regarding lids – use two hands! If you place the lid on the Push Pop, and push down on it without holding the sides of the container, this may happen…
Whoops! No one is immune to baking bloopers! :oops:
While I was at Party City, I spotted chocolate gelt and the bigger coins fit perfectly inside of the Push Pop containers! I had recently bought some chocolate-covered sunflower seeds at a farmer's market, so I picked out the blue and yellow seeds and added those to the container as well. But it still needed something to finish it off… a dreidel!
Since the dreidel is touching the sunflower seeds, be sure to wash it off before adding it to the mix. Just like the excitement of finding a prize at the bottom of a cereal box, the dreidel adds such a fun touch of whimsy to these Push Pops.
Holiday Push Pop Essentials
• Push Pop Containers (I bought mine from Global Sugar Art; great prices and fast shipping!)
Other Push Pop Filler Ideas
• PEEPS® Characters
• Donut Holes
• Cookies
• Mini Cupcakes
• Rice Krispy Treats
Push Pop Container Décor Ideas
• Hand-decorate or personalize the containers with Sharpie Markers
• Ribbon
• Washi Tape
• Sequins
• Rhinestones or craft 'jewels'
Enjoy and let us know in the comments below which push pop is your favorite!


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Two small Southeast Texas towns are pulling together to support their very own "Idol."
Folks in Woodville and Groves are using street signs, marquees and window fronts to remind residents to vote for "American Idol" contestant Kree Harrison.
The 22-year-old Woodville native made it to the coveted Top 10 of the Fox reality show last week. During Thursday's live show in Los Angeles, Woodville Mayor Ben Bythewood presented Harrison with a key to the city.
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Photographer's Note
Another classic view from the Kezneh just when exiting the Siqh.
Levels adjusted and USM applied.
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mugush (2104) 2005-10-06 17:03
nice one,,I like the composition very much.
thanks for sharing
colinbrenchley (6431) 2005-10-06 17:04
This images gives a good impression of the view that the visitors must encounter when visiting this wonderful place.
toni_al (15875) 2005-10-06 17:05
HI Steven
Une route bien étroite, la le 0,5°/00 est de rigueur.
Très belle lumière et bon cadrage
@+ Toni
thebig_d81 (777) 2005-10-06 18:13
Great shot Steven.
Excellent backdrop mixed with the walls either side. The cart works well and adds to the photo.
Well done
Xalkida (11744) 2005-10-06 18:20
What a marvelous shot. The POV is very fine and the depth awesome. Colors and lighting are fantastic. Very fine work Steven.
erdna (5713) 2005-10-06 18:23
Amazing light on this photograph. It is simply beautiful. your composition and point of view is very well chosen. Is it safe now to visit angola as a tourist? This place is a photographer's delight. TFS.
venus (748) 2005-10-12 3:33
Nice point of view.
I like this shot.
babakhendi (196) 2005-10-23 18:01
nice veiw, and nice control of light.i like it.
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- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-09-17
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon 17-40/4L USM, Digital RAW, Hama UV 77 mm
- Exposure: f/8, 1/50 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Travelogue: 9 DAYS TO DISCOVER JORDAN
- Date Submitted: 2005-10-06 16:55
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text: Spain's Cazorla (C) is confident ahead of big clash although admits team needs more variation [EPA]It is too early to start talking about the end of an era with Spain, midfielder Santi Cazorla said on Sunday ahead of the champions' trip to play Group I leaders France in a World Cup qualifier.Consecutive home draws against Tuesday's hosts and surprisingly against basement team Finland last Friday have left Spain second in the standings, two points behind Didier Deschamps side with four games to play.Anything less than a victory in Paris would leave Spain contemplating the play-offs for a backdoor route to the finals in Brazil. After exhilarating victories at Euro 2008, at the World Cup in 2010 and again at Euro 2012, questions have been asked if their cycle of success is coming to an end. "Today in football any team can make life difficult for you. We still have the same hunger and, of course, you cannot talk about the end of an era" Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla "It makes no sense to doubt this team," Arsenal's Cazorla told a news conference at their training base just outside the Spanish capital on Sunday."Today in football any team can make life difficult for you. We still have the same hunger and, of course, you cannot talk about the end of an era."Spain have lacked a cutting edge and struggled to turn their dominance into goals in their last two outings, as their possession game has looked slow and predictable at times.On top of that, they have conceded late equalisers after some uncharacteristically sloppy defending."In the last game we lacked some things," Cazorla said. "We need more variations, the team need to convert possession into chances."France will be different. I don't know if they are going to 'park a bus in front of the goal' (as Finland did). "Recently they have proven they have the tools to be able to play in a different way."France striker Karim Benzema, who plays in La Liga with Real Madrid, was booed by home fans at the Stade de France in their last game, a 3-1 win over Georgia, as he failed to find the net for an 11th consecutive game.Asked what he thought of Benzema's barren spell, Cazorla replied: "He is a spectacular footballer. He has great ability and it is rare for him to go so long without scoring."I hope he doesn't have his day against us either." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Football Latin America Brazil Finland


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STANFORD, Calif., April 9 (UPI) -- Girls shunning higher math has nothing to do with genes, but the way boys and girls are treated by peers, teachers and parents, U.S. researchers say.
Jo Boaler, a professor of math education in Stanford University's School of Education, said Americans tend to think gender differences in math achievement as unchangeable or girls aren't "hard wired" for math.
Researchers examined more than 250 separate studies of gender differences in math and found no appreciable differences in ability once the number of math courses boys and girls took was held constant.
The majority of U.S. math classrooms take a traditional approach to learning, where teachers introduce students to progressively more difficult mathematical procedures and students are expected to memorize these procedures and then execute them on homework and tests.
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TORONTO, March 10 (UPI) -- Amir Johnson's 17 points and 16 rebounds Sunday propelled the Toronto Raptors past struggling Cleveland 100-96.
Alan Anderson struck for 18 points as the Raptors bounced back from Friday's overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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The newlyweds touched down in the City of Light on Thursday
The City of Light is the City of Love for Reese Witherspoon and new husband Jim Toth.
Nearly four months after they tied the knot in March, the newlyweds flew to Paris as part of their honeymoon, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
The talent agent, 40, kept his arm around Witherspoon, 35, as they touched down at the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris on Thursday, after flying in from Los Angeles.
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I woke up this morning, excited about my plans for the day. I have renewed my commitment to exercise recently, and I was looking forward to my jaunt over to the gym.
Then Joanne and I were slated to meet a friend for lunch. And there is a New Year's Eve party at our friends Laurie and Pat, and finally a late dinner at Tastings. The menu looks lovely.
But there was at least 8" of snow on the ground, and it was coming down hard. And although our plow guy had cleared the driveway, the city plows hadn't made it down the street yet. So here I sit. As they say, "Man plans, God laughs!"
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Snowy New Year to You!Posted by Unknown
I woke up this morning, excited about my plans for the day. I have renewed my commitment to exercise recently, and I was looking forward to my jaunt over to the gym.
Something Cool: WordlePosted by Unknown
I happened upon the Wordle site. You can explore it here.
I made this with my words for my New Year's wishes to you!
Here's how they describe themselves: "Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends"
I think this would make a very cool back of business cards.
2009 New Years ResolutionsPosted by Unknown
I actually do make New Year's resolutions and I actually follow through and do them. In past years I have had resolutions like
- To clean one storage area (closet, drawers) a week
- To have more fun (when I realized I didn't know what fun *was* anymore!)
- To improve my photography
- To learn to play the Uke
- To improve brand Clare.
That was my last year's resolution - to improve brand Clare. I feel like I have worked my whole life to improve someone else's brand, and done a pretty good job at it. So last year I decided I should put the same attention on my personal brand.
I thought the idea of a "personal brand" was pretty novel and ground-breaking. Well, It's not! Just Google "personal branding" and see take a look at the zillion hits you will get back. There is a ton out there, for sure.
So how did I do on improving Brand Clare? Not bad. If you Google my name, you will see that I am most of the hits for the first three pages. And there are no "bad" hits -- pages that I would rather not be associated with.
This year, I am going to take Brand Clare a little further and see If I can become associated with a particular message. One of the sites I reviewed on branding suggested that a clear message is essential. So what message do I want to be associated with? Clare Dygert is an expert at leading innovative, creative teams. I think I am good with teams, and that the mashup of methods I use are interesting and novel. I will use this blog as a way to refine my thinking and talking about them.
Other resolutions for 2009:
- Upgrade my resume using an online resume site called Visual CV. You should check this out - these people really have something going on here. It sor of reminds me of something from back in the pre-www days called Hyperstudio. Do you remember that? (You will see from the link that Hyperstudio is alive and well.) It will probaby take me a year to build the collaterals I need for a Visual CV, but I am excited about doing it.
- Learn how to use Adobe InDesign and Dreamweaver. This will be helpful developing collaterals for the virtual resume.
- Master enough ASL that I can start taking classes at RIT. I am working at RIT now and as part of my benefits package I can take courses. But I have to be a certian level of fluency with ASL by July 2010 to keep my job. i want to make significant progress this year, and have decided that until I do I will have to put off other classes.
- Finally get my home network setup the way I want. Last year we bough a HP Homeserver, and I have used it to do a few things-- manage our printing, backup our computers, store photos and music. But I haven't done what I wanted to do from the start: Use the server to broadcast music all over the house and to store and stream Netflix movies to our TV. I have a new Onkyo receiver now, and I think we are dangerously close to getting this set up.
And two maybe resolutions:
- Buy a mandolin and learn to play it. I am really attracted to the Gibson F series mandolins. Here's a link to one of them here.
- Buy an DSL camera. Right now I have a very nice point and shoot -- an Olympus 550uz. You can read a review of it here. It has a fantastic zoom, and shake control, and I have shot some really great pictures with it. But I want to do a little more than I can do with my Olympus.
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Class of 2013 'Syosset Strong' after classmate's death
Syosset High School class of 2013 salutatorian Seung Wan Yoon, 17, can't swim.
Class speaker Sidhant Wadhera, 18, couldn't help but poke fun at Yoon in his speech at the school's graduation ceremony Wednesday night. "Only in Syosset High school can you have an All-American track team, a wrestling state champion, and a salutatorian who can't swim," he said.
Yoon admitted the problem in his own nautical-themed speech to his class, addressing the future as an uncertain but navigable sea, and promising that the Syosset High School experience was "a pond to prepare us for the future, for the streams, rivers, and eventually the ocean."
The only problem, Yoon said, is that he can't swim.
"If your lifeboat springs a leak, you'd better have a way to survive — which is why I'll learn to swim this summer," he said.
Syosset High School graduated 575 students in the Class of 2013 at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University. Speeches were given by both students and staff, and time was taken to appreciate the life of Jong Hun "John" Lee. Lee, a member of Syosset's class of 2013, was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train on March 26.
Wadhera's speech made special note of the passing of Lee. Wadhera said although his large graduating class may not all know each other very well, the loss of their classmate unified them.
"I didn't know John personally," he said. "But I saw the outpouring of support to his family from everyone in the class, from his best friends to people who just quietly passed him in the hallway. This was our greatest triumph — because we came together. We were Syosset Strong."
School principal Giovanni Durante led the crowd in a moment of silence for Lee.
Valedictorian Roger Witkin's speech went a little outside the box.
"In Japan, a popular child's activity consists of capturing and raising large beetles, which are eventually pitted against each other in a kind of beetle sumo to see who's the strongest," Witkin, 18, said.
He compared the children who raise the beetles to he and his classmates, saying that they are all driven by the compulsion to be the best at something.
Witkin said that while he's occasionally bothered by the competitive nature of high school, he is also "relieved that we, as students, universally have something we want to excel at, something that makes us want to be consequential in the eyes of our friends."
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It was one of the first warm evenings of spring when my new neighbor Steve—leaning over his balcony and through the bougainvillea—suggested we should take the kids to Faraya, a ski town a few hours from what was starting to look like a war in Syria.
My wife, Kelly, was a foreign correspondent for NPR. We'd just moved to Beirut, where we'd joined a crew of journalists and their families, including the legendary New York Timesreporter Anthony Shadid. He and Kelly had been neighbors in Baghdad, and he'd encouraged my wife to come here in the first place. Beirut was this plum assignment, with beaches, bars, and mountains like Faraya. After three years in the Middle East—the heat of Riyadh, the bombs of Iraq, and the bleak solitude of Istanbul, where I'd lived alone with our daughter—at last we would all be together. Loretta could walk and talk, Kelly was a newly minted bureau chief, and everything seemed to be falling into place.
"Sure, let's do it," I said, grateful for Steve's gesture of camaraderie. There was room for optimism: It seemed only a matter of time before Syrian president Bashar al Assad would fall, just like the dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen. With Damascus free and Syria awash in fellow-feeling, reporters like Kelly and Anthony would soon be free, too.
Life was looking up.
The next morning, bright and early, Steve and I loaded up his SUV with bags of snacks and snowdrifts of warm clothing and a stack of CDs. Kelly was gearing up for another eighteen-hour day covering the Syrian uprising.
Beirut, when we drove through town that day, betrayed none of the horror we'd all eventually come to know. In neighboring Syria, to be sure, every day that spring, ten or twenty or thirty or more were being gunned down. But the struggle felt far away and the conclusion inevitable; freedom-lovers would win, and justly so. Downtown Beirut glittered with new buildings selling purses and Porsches, tourists and locals thronged new restaurants with fancy decor, and if we saw any cars with Syrian plates they were the luxury cars of the upper middle class on vacation—not the battered getaway cars of refugees fleeing a maniac set on his country's destruction. Everywhere we turned was more proof, it seemed, that we had made an excellent decision to come here.
Steve and I passed a Prada store and a Hermes shop and a few car dealerships and a TGI Fridays and a new mall and three Burger Kings and a Tony Roma's, and then, as we began the long, slow ascent, I saw vast tracts of shiny new apartment buildings, some with views of a shimmering sea.
Loretta sat happily in her car seat, munching a fig. Ed—Steve's blond son—had fallen asleep and was drooling prodigiously. On the stereo, a train named Thomas tried to understand why moving carts of coal was so important.
Soon we were surrounded by snow. Were you even allowed to park at a ski resort if you didn't ski? The thing was this: I didn't know. As usual, I was just along for the ride. While my wife had big aspirations and the ability to fulfill them, I—several years into falling her around the world—was at this point content enough to look for inspiration from a stay-at-home dad like Steve, with his mane of silver hair and that big-ass black truck.
He prowled for a spot and the lot looked like a showroom of luxury cars, dotted here and there by men and women in colorful snow gear. Though Steve and I were married to women with big jobs—his wife a dean at the business school—the comfort and spending power of many of the people around us exceeded anything we could hope to have ourselves. Steve didn't care, and I suppose I didn't either.
Steve spotted an open space beside a gleaming BMW, but a Mercedes beat us to it. He gunned it toward a second spot beside the slopes. Then a security guard materialized. He carried a pistol on his hip and gestured roughly for us to get out.
We were not VIPs. Just two dads in Beirut trying to go sledding.
"Daddy, I need to pee," Loretta said.
"Just wait a second, honey," I said.
Squirming in my seat, already shaking from cold, I reached for my gloves, which were not there. I'd left them in the damn apartment. So many little things could evade you and make you weak, eroding what felt like solid foundation. What was my place out here? I thought longingly of New York, where we'd lived, or Miami, where I grew up. Shouldn't we just go home? In that moment, the thrill and excitement of Beirut began to fade.
The four of us lumbered up the mountain through the cold. Loretta wore three sweaters and a pair of Ed's snow pants. I wore three scarfs and my father's too-small hat. It had been a long winter, and the snow high above Beirut was, to my eye at least, frozen solid. For as far as I could see, the world was blanketed in a white hush.
"Right," Steve said, his cheeks going red. "Let's find a place to build a snowman!"
We trudged past young men and women smoking cigarettes and drinking wine, sitting in folding chairs or leaning beatifically on skis and poles and snowboards. Loretta's nose began to run and even with the prescription sunglasses I wore I was having trouble with depth perception. Stumbling, I rubbed my naked hands together, wondering: If I got frostbite, would I still be able to carry Loretta back to the car?
His lips chapping, eyes watering, Steve announced we'd arrived at the perfect spot. We all bent down to dig snow. The kids took turns pawing helplessly at the hard surface, like a pair of seals. Ed began to cry. Steve held him in his lap, rocking back and forth. I looked at Loretta, who stared up at the sky, eyes watering. She looked like her mom. All over the Middle East, there were little girls who looked like their moms.
Wanting to do my part, I kicked at the hard-pack with the back of my heel, building up a pile of fluff. Steve saw what I was doing and followed suit. Loretta watched us, sneezed. Slowly, a quantity of malleable snow amassed. With the children eying us, Steve and I shaped three balls, my fingers going numb, and then we balanced one on top of another, making a little man not much bigger than a coffee can.
We regarded it in silence. As the sun angled better, I could see the vista was achingly beautiful, and I thought—as I had so many times—about what I would tell Kelly later.
Loretta pointed at the snowman's face, emphatic. She worked her jaws, looking for the right word.
"Eyes!" she said finally. "Daddy, he needs eyes! He can't see."
I couldn't argue and out of my pocket I withdrew two bottle caps. I screwed them into his face. "There," I said. "Now he can see."
"Right," Steve said, shaking some snow from his pants and holding a squirming Ed in one arm. "Shall we sled?"
I stood by an orange toboggan. It seemed small. I scanned the white expanse. Clouds swirled high above us. Skiers hurtled toward an inevitable conclusion at the bottom of the slopes. I sat upon a tiny orange disc and dug my heels in. Was that right? Was anything any of us were doing here part of some plan? What wasn't I seeing? Feeling the thing wanting to launch into orbit, the whole contraption ready to go, I grabbed for Loretta, who squealed, and as she worked her tiny muscles against mine, I crammed her into the space between my knees.
Plastic rocketed over snow, and we were hurtling downhill, scarves flying, wind whipping through hair, sun-blind and shivering. Loretta was dead silent, and as we hurtled down the white mountain, I wondered if this was one of those moments when I'd dragged her into a situation she wasn't yet ready for. Wind whistled in my ears, and I felt regret for all the decisions I'd made and the ones I hadn't even realized we were making, and then, halfway down the hill, my little girl screamed with joy, and I suppose I discerned for a moment the difference between excitement and fear, between hesitation and action—this, at last, was action, that knowledge that something was dangerous but fuck it.
The sled went faster and faster, no turning back, and then all of a sudden we were fishtailing, nearly flipping, and sweet Jesus, it could have been bad, but I—Miami boy, resident of the Middle East, a father—took control. We glided to a stop, and we were okay.
The wind blew down off the mountain. I could hear the slicing sounds of skis cutting across snow and the happy murmur of people waiting in line for the ski lift.
"Again, Daddy?" a tiny voice said. "Can we do it again?"
A month later, squall after squall of freezing rain battered the streets of Beirut. Up on the mountains like Faraya, snow covered everything. News from Syria felt just as hard and heavy; protests were spreading to cities all around the country and the tallies of dead and missing began to engender a dark and persistent fear. The government, it became clear, would not back down—it would do anything to preserve Assad's hold on power—and as the protest movement became an armed rebellion, guns on both sides were drawn. It was only a matter of time before the blood flowed our way.
Weeks would go by without Kelly getting a full night's sleep. I'd bring her coffee to wake her up, and in her right hand a BlackBerry would still be clutched tightly.
One morning, I was making the coffee and checking Twitter on my phone. A reporter friend had posted terrible news.
"Anthony is dead," I shouted, running down the hall, cup sloshing.
Kelly shot out of the bed and ran to her computer. A few minutes later she was standing in our living room, filing a news spot for NPR. On air, she said that Anthony Shadid had died during a rugged crossing from Syria. What she didn't say was that he had a son and a daughter and a wife and an ex-wife and that he'd died doing what he loved and that it was a thing that my wife loved too. Nearly every weekend, we'd tried to see Anthony's family but the work always got in the way. Now he was gone, forever.
In a daze, I put Loretta into fresh clothes and watched Kelly pace the room. Rain came down in sheets. We were late for school, and I dreaded loading Loretta into the stroller. Kelly gave us a half-wave goodbye, her face pale and eyes red. While we got ready, she got back to work.
"Daddy, I'm cold," Loretta said, as I buckled her in. "It's bad out there."
Less than an hour after I'd heard the news, I stood under an awning at a preschool a few blocks from Anthony's house, wondering what his death would mean—for us, for everyone, for a new life we'd barely started living.
In the middle of the hallway, surrounded by hand-painted posters and tiny backpacks, I was confused to find an administrator waiting for me. She smiled, clapping me on the back.
"Congratulations!" she said. "You should be so proud."
Of all mornings, the school was announcing which of the children in the day care program had been admitted into the kindergarten.
Back outside, under a steady rain, I stood shivering, holding an acceptance letter I didn't want and with a fresh perspective on a problem—how to live in Beirut?—that I didn't know what to do with. The water made the words bleed and the paper disintegrate.
On a brilliant Sunday a few weeks later, the cold spring storms finally broke and there was almost no chill in the air. A fat sun hung in the sky. Anthony was still gone but we were still here. And it was time for a family trip to the grocery store. Walking the sidewalk, Loretta held Kelly's hand, and in my own, I carried a bag of knives.
Two more Western journalists had died in Syria since Anthony.
At the grocery store, Loretta demanded to ride in a shopping cart shaped like a car.
"It's dirty," Kelly said.
I looked inside. There was a steering wheel with a horn and a little seatbelt torn in half. There was also a dark puddle on the floorboard underneath the place a gas pedal should be. I sighed.
We wanted to do everything right. Yet sometimes it was hard to know when to say no, to make the choice to walk away from what might harm us.
We walked past bins of produce, which we could wash in bottled water to avoid typhoid—which struck us all anyway a few weeks later. I paused at the cases of milk, trying to remember which of the four brands wasn't among the ones recalled because they were basically sugar-water dyed with chalk. Loretta and Kelly scooted off to pick pasta.
Alone, I walked to the meat counter, where I caught the attention of the heavyset butcher. Catching his eye, I dragged a dull blade across the heel of my palm, trying to indicate the problem.
He nodded, understanding. I hated having dull knives. If we were going to stay in Beirut, next to Syria, we needed to be prepared for anything.
Puffing out his chest, the butcher settled a steel wand into a pink-stained butcher block. With great arcing swings of his arm, he slashed the blades over steel.
Mesmerized by the sound and sight and the smell of all the meat behind the counter, I couldn't stop thinking about Anthony and the other journalists who had been killed, how they'd only been doing what they'd always trained for. At an informal gathering after his death, his assistant had come in wailing, repeating her departed boss's name over and over, beating her chest with grief. "Why did we let him go? Why did we do this?" Then I attended the funeral, where an entire generation of reporters sat in pews, heads bowed. It was tempting to think some of them might take a break—reassess or something. Unable to even fathom canceling a reporting trip, Kelly spent the hours of the funeral deep inside Yemen. In the coming months and years, more journalists would be arriving in Beirut, not fewer.
I watched the butcher slap down a giant hunk of imported Australian beef. It was probably one hundred dollars worth of meat, and my eyes grew wide. He showed me one of my knives, then he plunged the blade into the loin. Working feverishly, like a man possessed, he merrily sawed off a two-dollar chunk here, then a five-dollar hunk there, making a quick pile, which he proceeded to bludgeon until it was a pile of gore.
"Stop," I said. "I get it. They're sharp!"
The butcher took a deep breath, shook his head, and then he began to whistle. Taking out a clean cloth, he wiped down each blade, laying them on the counter for me to inspect.
"These are good," he said. "Now they are better."
Walking home, I held my daughter's hand, and in the other hand I felt the tug of my knives.
Anthony was gone but we were still here. Kelly walked ahead of us, lost in thought, aching to get back to work. She'd cancel her next trip into Syria. But she couldn't stay out forever.
This piece was published by Gawker. Read the original here.


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Judd exploring Senate run
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The Hollywood movie star and eighth-generation Kentuckian is seriously exploring a 2014 run for the Senate to take on the powerful Republican leader, four people familiar with the matter tell POLITICO. In recent weeks, Judd has spoken with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) about the possibility of a run, has discussed a potential bid with a Democratic pollster and has begun to conduct opposition research on herself to see where she's most vulnerable in the Bluegrass State, sources say.
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Whether Judd jumps into the race remains far from certain. She's reportedly also weighing whether to wait until 2016 to instead take on freshman Sen. Rand Paul, sources say.
But if Judd does become a candidate, she would be the biggest celebrity to run for the Senate since Al Franken's successful 2008 bid for the Minnesota seat. And her entrance would add a level of star power to a race that was already poised to be the highest-profile in the country with the Senate Republican leader up for a sixth term in 2014.
"She is doing all the things that a serious candidate exploring a race should do," Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) told POLITICO after speaking with her. "I think there are a lot of people, and I was one of them, who wanted to let her know that her candidacy would be an exciting prospect for us. That's what I wanted her to know. A lot of the labor unions, they were telling me that too."
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A Judd spokeswoman declined to comment beyond an earlier statement when the actress said she was "very honored" by the consideration, but didn't shut the door on a run.
Democrats privately acknowledge that recruiting isn't easy against McConnell, as the state's strongest Democrats may instead run for governor in 2015 rather than face the GOP leader's machine in a bare-knuckle Senate bid.
That's why some Democrats are calling on Judd to run — she could raise a ton of cash, energize the base and would have significant name recognition in the state. Yet other Democrats are nervous about her prospective candidacy: She'd be pegged as a liberal, out of touch with conservative Kentucky; she has no experience running for office; and she now lives outside her home state.
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In addition to Judd, a wide range of Democratic names have been floated, such as Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and Obama fundraiser Matthew Barzun, both of whom are noncommittal about the race.
McConnell's campaign is already talking about how it's prepared to tear apart any Democrat who joins the fray.
"It's going to sting," Jesse Benton, McConnell's campaign manager, warned to any candidates considering a run. "We're going to make sure that you don't come out with your nose clean. We're going to drive your negatives up and very aggressively and publicly litigate your record before the citizens of Kentucky."


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- Country Briefs: Sustained Sound Policies Bode well for New Zealand
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Cahill, Lindsay S. and Rana, Usman Ali and Forsyth, Maria and Smith, Mark E. (2010) Investigation of proton dynamics and the proton transport pathway in choline dihydrogen phosphate using solid-state NMR. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12 (20). pp. 5431-5438. ISSN 1463-9084
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Cardwell, Chris R. and Stene, Lars C. and Joner, Geir and Bulsara, Max K. and Cinek, Ondrej and Rosenbauer, Joachim and Ludvigsson, Johnny and Jane, Mireia and Svensson, Jannet and Goldacre, Michael J. and Waldhoer, Thomas and Jarosz-Chobot, Przemyslawa and Gimeno, Suely G. A. and Chuang, Lee-Ming and Parslow, Roger C. and Wadsworth, Emma J. K. and Chetwynd, Amanda and Pozzilli, Paolo and Brigis, Girts and Urbonaite, Brone and Sipetic, Sandra and Schober, Edith and Devoti, Gabriele and Ionescu-Tirgoviste, Constantin and de Beaufort, Carine E. and Stoyanov, Denka and Buschard, Karsten and Patterson, Chris C. (2010) Maternal age at birth and childhood type 1 diabetes:a pooled analysis of 30 observational studies. Diabetes Care, 59 (2). pp. 486-494. ISSN 1935-5548
Feller, Steve and Lodden, G. and Riley, A. and Edwards, T. and Croskrey, J. and Schue, A. and Liss, D. and Stentz, D. and Blair, S. and Kelley, M. and Smith, G. and Singleton, S. and Affatigato, Mario and Holland, D. and Smith, Mark E. and Kamitsos, E. I. and Varsamis, C. P. E. and Ioannou, E. (2010) A multispectroscopic structural study of lead silicate glasses over an extended range of compositions. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (6-8). pp. 304-313. ISSN 0022-3093
Hanna, John V. and Pike, Kevin J. and Charpentier, Thibault and Kemp, Thomas F. and Smith, Mark E. and Lucier, Bryan E. G. and Schurko, Robert W. and Cahill, Lindsay S. (2010) A 93Nb Solid-State NMR and Density Functional Theory Study of Four- and Six-Coordinate Niobate Systems. Chemistry - A European Journal, 16 (10). pp. 3222-3239. ISSN 0947-6539
Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. (2010) Recent technique developments and applications of solid state NMR in characterising inorganic materials. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 38 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1527-3326
Idehara, Toshitaka and Kosuga, Kosuke and Agusu, La and Ogawa, Isamu and Takahashi, Hiroki and Smith, Mark E. and Dupree, Ray (2010) Gyrotron FU CW VII for 300 MHz and 600 MHz DNP-NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 31 (7). pp. 763-774. ISSN 1866-6906
Johnes, Geraint (2010) It was all gonna trickle down: what has growth in India's advanced sectors really done for the rest? The Indian Economic Journal, 57 (4). pp. 146-155. ISSN 0019-4662
Jones, Julian R. and Lin, S. and Yue, S. and Lee, P. D. and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Newport, Robert J. (2010) Bioactive glass scaffolds for bone regeneration and their hierarchical characterisation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 224 (12). pp. 1373-1387. ISSN 0954-4119
Kemp, Thomas F. and Balakrishnan, G. and Pike, Kevin J. and Smith, Mark E. and Dupree, Ray (2010) Thermometers for low temperature Magic Angle Spinning NMR. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 204 (1). pp. 169-172. ISSN 1096-0856
Kiani, Azadeh and Cahill, Lindsay S. and Neel, Ensanya Ali Abou and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Knowles, Jonathan C. (2010) Physical properties and MAS-NMR studies of titanium phosphate-based glasses. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 120 (1). pp. 68-74. ISSN 0254-0584
Kryukov, Eugeny V. and Newton, Mark E. and Pike, Kevin J. and Bolton, David R. and Kowalczyk, Radoslaw M. and Howes, Andrew P. and Smith, Mark E. and Dupree, Ray (2010) DNP enhanced NMR using a high-power 94 GHz microwave source:a study of the TEMPOL radical in toluene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12 (22). pp. 5757-5765. ISSN 1463-9076
Laurencin, D. and Guerrero, G. and Amalric, J. and Bonhomme, C. and Gervais, C. and Smith, M.E. and Mutin, P.H. (2010) Advanced solid state NMR techniques for the investigation of the organic-mineral interfaces in biomaterials:2009 MRS Fall Meeting. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Laurencin, Danielle and Wong, Alan and Chrzanowski, Wojciech and Knowles, Jonathan C. and Qiu, Dong and Pickup, David M. and Newport, Robert J. and Gan, Zhehong and Duer, Melinda J. and Smith, Mark E. (2010) Probing the calcium and sodium local environment in bones and teeth using multinuclear solid state NMR and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12 (5). pp. 1081-1091. ISSN 1463-9076
Lin, Sen and Ionescu, Claudia and Baker, Simon and Smith, Mark E. and Jones, Julian R. (2010) Characterisation of the inhomogeneity of sol–gel-derived SiO2–CaO bioactive glass and a strategy for its improvement. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 53 (2). pp. 255-262. ISSN 1573-4846
Lin, Sen and Ionescu, Claudia and Valliant, Esther M. and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Jones, Julian R. (2010) Tailoring the nanoporosity of sol–gel derived bioactive glass using trimethylethoxysilane. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (8). pp. 1489-1496. ISSN 0959-9428
Mahony, Oliver and Tsigkou, Olga and Ionescu, Claudia and Minelli, Caterina and Ling, Lowell and Hanly, Ruth and Smith, Mark E. and Stevens, Molly M. and Jones, Julian R. (2010) Silica-gelatin hybrids with tailorable degradation and mechanical properties for tissue regeneration. Advanced Functional Materials, 20 (22). pp. 3835-3845. ISSN 1616-3028
O'Connor, Sean J. and MacKenzie, Kenneth J. D. and Smith, Mark E. and Hanna, John V. (2010) Ion exchange in the charge-balancing sites of aluminosilicate inorganic polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (45). pp. 10234-10240. ISSN 0959-9428
Orera, A. and Baikie, T. and Panchmatia, P. and White, T. J. and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Islam, M. S. and Kendrick, E. and Slater, P. R. (2010) Strategies for the optimisation of the oxide ion conductivities of apatite-type germanates. Fuel Cells, 11 (1). pp. 10-16. ISSN 1615-6854
Panchmatia, P. M. and Orera, A. and Kendrick, E. and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Slater, P. R. and Islam, M. S. (2010) Protonic defects and water incorporation in Si and Ge-based apatite ionic conductors. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (14). pp. 2766-2772. ISSN 1364-5501
Poologasundarampillai, Gowsihan and Ionescu, Claudia and Tsigkou, Olga and Murugesan, Muthu and Hill, Robert G. and Stevens, Molly M. and Hanna, John V. and Smith, Mark E. and Jones, Julian R. (2010) Synthesis of bioactive class II poly(gamma-glutamic acid)/silica hybrids for bone regeneration. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (40). pp. 8952-8961. ISSN 1364-5501
Qiu, Dong and Martin, Richard A. and Knowles, Jonathan C. and Smith, Mark E. and Newport, Robert J. (2010) A comparative study of the structure of sodium borophosphates made by sol–gel and melt-quench methods. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356 (9-10). pp. 490-494. ISSN 0022-3093
Shan, Rafi and Lund, David and Ahmed, Hassan and Honary, Bahram and Kakhki, M. M. (2010) Performance of VoIP over TETRA Enhanced Data Services with Header Compression. In: 4th International Symposium on Broadband Communications (ISBC 2010). UNSPECIFIED, Melaka, Malaysia.
Taylor, C. James and Seward, D. (2010) Control of a dual-arm robotic manipulator. Nuclear Engineering International, 55 (673). pp. 24-26. ISSN 0029-5507
Tsai, Yi-Ling and Hanna, John V. and Lee, Yuan-Ling and Smith, Mark E. and Chan, Jerry C.C. (2010) Solid-state NMR study of geopolymer prepared by sol-gel chemistry. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 183 (12). pp. 3017-3022.
Tyfield, David and Urry, John (2010) Cosmopolitan China? Soziale Welt, 61 (3-4). pp. 277-294. ISSN 0038-6073
Umer, Tariq and Ding, Zhiguo and Honary, Bahram and Ahmed, Hassan (2010) Implementation of microscopic parameters for density estimation of heterogeneous traffic flow for VANET. In: Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2010 7th International Symposium on. IEEE, GBR, pp. 66-70. ISBN 978-1-4244-8858-2
Urry, John (2010) Consuming the planet to excess. Theory, Culture and Society, 27 (2-3). pp. 191-212. ISSN 1460-3616
Whiteside, James R. and Box, Clare L. and McMillan, Trevor J. and Allinson, Sarah L. (2010) Cadmium and copper inhibit both DNA repair activities of polynucleotide kinase. DNA Repair, 9 (1). pp. 83-89. ISSN 1568-7864
Wilkinson, Sally and Davies, William J. (2010) Drought, ozone, ABA and ethylene: new insights from cell to plant to community. Plant, Cell and Environment, 33 (4). pp. 510-525. ISSN 0140-7791


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Six months: that's how long Democrats have to talk about inequality in America with conviction and, for whatever it's worth in politics, consistency. Six months from now marks the midterm elections, the unofficial start of the 2016 presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton's long-delayed ride to inevitability.
What does Hillary Clinton have to do with inequality in America? She's no robber baron, of course. But the core case against inequality isn't about resentment of wealth—it's about the ways in which the concentration of wealth is making politics increasingly pointless, a game of access and not arguments. Anyone who fears that future should think twice before casting a ballot for a dynastic politician, because dynastic candidates turn politics pointless in essentially the same way. They trade on family capital to make elections less meaningful; they are prone to be inflexible and indifferent to inequality; and they have good reason to be even less accountable to the public than ordinary politicians. Concentrated economic power and concentrated political power are, in the end, two sides of a coin.
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The prospect of a dynastic future should be especially disturbing to Democrats like me. Political life tolerates all sorts of little hypocrisies, but some gulfs between what a party wants to say—and whom a party chooses to say it—are too wide to be bridged. If we want to talk critically about the concentration of economic power in the United States, if we really believe that the rise and rise of the 1 percent is the signal issue of our time, we have to live by our words when it comes to the concentration of political power. We can't effectively criticize inequality as long as we practice the politics of dynasty. And that means Hillary Clinton can't possibly be our standard bearer in 2016. Leave dynasties to the Republicans and Jeb Bush—or whichever other scion of Kennebunkport the GOP wants to throw at us next.
Dynastic politics have a long, and mostly unfortunate, American history; but Democrats, and liberals more broadly, haven't yet thought clearly about what it would mean to have a dynastic presidential nominee now, nor about the ways in which familial concentration of economic and political power reinforce one another. Democrats have the opportunity and the obligation to be the party against patrimonialism, the dangerous intertwining of family and power. We can be a forceful party of social equality, or we can have a dynastic nominee. But we can't do both.
Not in a century has so much wealth been concentrated in so few hands; two-thirds of those who were born at both the top and the bottom of the wealth scale will also die there. As the columnist Damon Linker recently put it, "America is well on the road to producing a class of self-perpetuating, self-insulating, self-aggrandizing oligarchs." Of course, Americans have traditionally tolerated and even celebrated those oligarchs who could point to their success as earned. Since Thomas Jefferson's time, we've honored what he called the "natural aristocracy," the aristocracy of talent that set the New World apart from the Old. But the break has never been as clean as Jefferson dreamed.
In fact, that's a troubling lesson of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the best-selling book that's redefining the political conversation on both sides of the Atlantic. Piketty's centuries of data show that, across the capitalist world, inherited wealth has historically overwhelmed earned wealth. Because the returns on generations of stored-up wealth generally outpace economic growth, "the past tends to devour the future." And because patrimonial wealth is far more concentrated than earned income, the logic of our economy holds a tendency toward spiraling inequality—to the point, he writes, of "levels potentially incompatible with the meritocratic values and principles of social justice fundamental to modern democratic societies."
For some three decades, nostalgia for the middle-class, mid-century years has been at the heart of our political language, left and right, but the long view suggests that this is nostalgia for a fast-receding blip, an exception to the rule rather than some American birthright. It's true that the "supersalaries" of the 1 percent—think of Jamie Dimon's $8.5 million raise from JPMorgan—currently play a greater role in driving inequality here than in other Western countries. But today's supersalary is tomorrow's estate, particularly when the steady weakening of estate taxes—excuse me, "death taxes"—eases the conversion of earned income into patrimonial wealth. Already, the wealthiest Americans earn the vast majority of their income from capital, not work. And worldwide, inherited capital is on pace to make up a share of total wealth not seen since the 19th century, a trend in which the United States is projected to participate. For ages, the surest routes to economic power were birth and marriage; think of our new century as a recurring dream from which we were certain we'd woken up.
Politically speaking, should this bother us? It depends on what we think politics is for. If we think politics is special because (at least ideally) it is one realm in which reasons and arguments matter, in which my case can compete with yours on its merits on any given day, then wealth's power to buy influence and access tends empty the meaning right out of politics. Consider this: When the opinions of the most affluent Americans diverge from those of the rest of us, one recent study found, our influence over policy virtually disappears. When the best-off and the majority disagree, the majority consistently loses.
And this is just why the growing power of patrimonial wealth is so troubling. Just maybe, someone who's earned a fortune, who's worked to create tremendous economic value, deserves an outsized voice in our politics. But that case is impossible to make for someone who has come into a fortune through birth or marriage. Patrimonial wealth tends to make politics doubly pointless: It shows us the ugly specter of power that does not have to justify itself, power that just is.
It's not a coincidence, then, that efforts to build democracies and to limit the influence of patrimonial wealth have historically been part of the same project—a "virtuous circle," write James A. Robinson and Daron Acemo?lu in their important book on the causes of democratic stability and prosperity, Why Nations Fail. "Inclusive political institutions," the two political economy scholars find, "create constraints against the exercise and usurpation of power. They also tend to create inclusive economic institutions, which in turn make the continuation of inclusive political institutions more likely." Conversely, shared political power does not survive highly concentrated economic power.


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Reducing vehicle interior noise levels to achieve driver and passenger comfort is at the forefront of concerns for acoustic engineers in the automotive industry. Great strides have been made in reducing powertrain and road/tire noise, such that wind noise has become the dominant noise source during highway driving, directly impacting consumer brand loyalty and sales. A significant amount of engineering time and product cost is therefore being invested in achieving interior noise targets to remain competitive in quality. Typically, however, automotive OEM's are not able to assess wind-related interior noise until late in the development process when high quality verification prototypes are built. At this point it may be too late to efficiently resolve noise problems, thereby requiring design re-work, additional sound package, or acoustic glass attenuation—all expensive and time consuming solutions. To reduce the associated costs as well as development times, there is a strong need for a reliable numerical prediction capability for use early in the development process and throughout the program life cycle.
For a vehicle traveling at highway speeds, turbulent flow provides a distributed force excitation on the greenhouse (e.g. side windows, windshield) panels, generating an acoustic field also acting on the panels. The greenhouse noise sources are complex transient flow structures produced by flow separations and vortices resulting from various exterior geometry features such as the cowl, A-pillar, or mirror assembly. Accurate prediction of greenhouse noise sources requires predicting the time varying flow structures and resulting wall pressure fluctuations on the greenhouse panels, including effects of small geometric details. The turbulent excitation, panel vibration and acoustics are of widely varying length scales (i.e. wavenumber spectrum), providing a significant technical challenge to predict accurately over the important frequency range. Sound transmission of the exterior acoustic field to the interior is particularly important near the acoustic/structure coincidence frequency and appears to be significant even though the turbulent wall pressure amplitudes far exceed those of the acoustic pressures.
The SIMULIA PowerFLOW® solver coupled with SIMULIA PowerACOUSTICS® offers a complete solution for simulating all important wind noise sources, and predicting their contribution to the full vehicle interior noise. PowerFLOW predicts transient flow around the vehicle, including highly accurate prediction of key noise-producing flow structures (such as the A-pillar vortex and mirror/pedestal/sail wake which directly impact the front side glass). PowerACOUSTICS converts the resulting time-domain pressure signals everywhere on the panels into structural power inputs, used as input to a fast-running Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) model that predicts the noise inside the cabin. This approach quantifies the wind noise contribution coming from different panels at driver/passenger head space locations inside the vehicle. The predicted spectra may be converted to audio files for comparative listening to the effects of various design options. The PowerFLOW suite's complete solution goes beyond what is practical in physical test by enabling engineers to gain insight into behavior of key turbulent flow structures and corresponding greenhouse noise sources for targeted shape design improvement. This new, industry-first capability enables analysis of potential noise reduction solutions including: exterior shape changes, glass properties, and interior acoustic package modifications on the wind noise characteristics of a vehicle design early in the development process—before costly physical models or prototypes are built.


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In their grand master scheme entering the season, the New York Jets imagined their two-quarterback approach with Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow as the type of gameplan that could keep an opposing defensive coordinator up at night.
Five weeks into the season, the Jets have been proven correct ... sort of. Tebow has forced opponents to prepare for more than just the Jets' base attack. But there's no evidence this has actually benefitted the Jets in any tangible sense.
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» Jones: Colts ready for 'sprinkle' of Tebow
» Rapoport: Johnson waits for Texans' turn
Tebow has been on the field for just 38 offensive snaps all season. At this stage, teams assume nothing radical will be thrown their way. That includes the Indianapolis Colts, who head to the Meadowlands for a meeting with the 2-3 Jets on Sunday.
"A little sprinkle of Tebow," said Colts defensive end Cory Redding, via NFL.com and NFL Network's Kimberly Jones. "That's pretty much what we are expecting."
Bruce Arians, the Colts' offensive coordinator and now interim coach while Chuck Pagano undergoes leukemia treatment, estimated the Colts spent 30 percent of their preparation time on Tebow packages. He called it a "burden" preparing for two offenses -- there's that master scheme again! -- but it's not an offense you'd ever see him run.
"Myself, I've never been a two-quarterback guy," Arians said. "If you have two, you don't have any. I've been a one-quarterback guy for my whole career, that's just my philosophy. It can work, they can make it work if they chose to do so and they obviously have. It's just not my philosophy, no."
If you have two, you don't have any. You have to wonder if that's the fear that keeps coach Rex Ryan up at night.
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Cassette only – limited edition of 200 copies, of which 150 copies are available during Black Spirituals' 2015 tour with Earth, commencing 22.1.15.
Track list:
A: Black Zenith I
B: Black Zenith II
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Zachary James Watkins: electronics. Marshall Trammell: percussion. Recorded live at Disjecta Art Gallery on August 30th, 2014 by Daniel Menche. Mastered by Jacob Felix Huele. 1+1=3.
Black Spirituals' performance involves the manipulation of temporal experience using a framework of dynamic relationships and a "Multi-Aesthetic Approach to Improvisation.�? The title "Black Spirituals�? is borrowed from a found cassette documenting a lecture given by Bernice Reagon on the roots music of American Black Slaves. These stories form a sonic resonance that speaks of rich relationships to ones surroundings, memories, profound feelings, dreams, and the experiences that inspire human expression. This duet features a new tradition in conversant, duo vernacular dynamics that sparked a revolution in our conceptions of space, stage, ritual, performance, geography, praxis, brotherhood, relationships, rockin' out, and more.
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Captivating improvisations consolidating dextrous free-jazz, rock and electronics by Oakland, CA, USA's Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammel aka Black Spirituals. Currently in the midst of a massive Euro tour with Earth, the duo collude with The Tapeworm to present this damn fine expo - 150 copies for the merch-stall and 50 for everybody else - of a coversant sound inspired by roots American black music whose relevance is still striking today. Trammell's percussion and Watkins' electronics play out a dynamic relationship of expressive ritual and peromative space, generating oblique and compatible patterns in a constant tussle of cooperative resolution and bristling conflict unfolding in real time.
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Samoilovs and Smedins through to semis at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
Fuzhou, China, April 25, 2014 - Latvia's Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins are through to the semifinals at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open after overwhelming Olympic silver medalist Emanuel Rego and his new partner Pedro Solberg Salgado 2-0 (21-14, 21-19) on Friday.
Topping Pool E, Samoilovs and Smedins progressed directly into the second round of the single elimination phase meeting Spain's third seeds Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira in their first match of the day. The Latvians had to come from one set down to win 2-1 (23-25, 21-17, 16-14).
Their third round match proved less of a challenge against Emanuel and Pedro, defeating the newly-formed Brazilian pair in just 35 minutes.
"They had more mistakes today," said
Smedins. "In pool matches we didn't play our best game, we also lost one
match. But we played good today, I feel
Smedins said that the victory against Pedro gave him a "special" feeling.
"It's good to win against Pedro because we were fighting hard last year for the first place in the World Tour rankings. It's very nice," said Smedins.
Samoilovs and Smedins will play another Brazilian pair - Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt - for a spot in the gold medal match on Saturday.
"It won't be an easy match. We need to play very
good to beat them (Alison/Bruno). We want to get a medal in the first
tournament of this year," said Smedins.
The other semifinal will feature Jon Stiekema and Christiaan Varenhorst from the Netherlands and Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo.
Stiekema and Varenhorst nailed two quick wins on Friday to advance, defeating Plavins and Solovejs of Latvia 2-0 (21-18, 21-17) in 34 minutes before easing past Swiss qualifiers Mats Kovatsch and Jonas Kissling 2-0 (21-15, 21-17) in 34 minutes as well.
Nicolai and Lupo edged Alexander Brouwer and Michiel van Dorsten of the Netherlands 2-1 (18-21, 21-15, 15-11) to reach the semifinals in Fuzhou for the second straight year.
Last year the Italian duo grabbed the silver medal here after going down to USA's Sean Rosenthal and Philip Dalhausser in the final.
The defending champions were eliminated in the second round of the knock-out phase, losing to Alison and Bruno 2-1 (15-21, 21-17, 15-12).
Fuzhou, capital of the Fujian province lies on the southeast coast of Chinese mainland and hosts the Open event for the second straight year.
In addition to the Fuzhou Open, two other stops are scheduled in China in 2014 on the FIVB international schedule: the FIVB Shanghai Grand Slam (April 29 to May 4) and the FIVB Xiamen Open (October 7 to 12). All three are double-gender events.
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