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At Afghan university, students fear for the future
The Taliban attack last week on a popular resort outside Kabul not only terrified locals and undermined the U.S. and Afghan government narrative that security here is improving. If the views of Kabul University students are any guide, the attack also showed that President Hamid Karzai's administration is fast losing the confidence of a generation of aspiring professionals critical to rebuilding Afghanistan.
Eighteen Afghans – including a police officer and several security guards – were killed in the raid on Qargha Lake's Spozhmai restaurant, which began late Thursday night and ended at 11 a.m. Friday. All four Taliban attackers were also killed in fierce fighting with Afghan and coalition forces.
"We're all really worried about what happened at Qargha," said Ekrullah, 19, an Earth sciences student at Kabul University. Referring to the lakeside resort about a half-hour's drive west of the capital, he said, "This is a place for picnics, but after this attack we won't be able to go to such places because we're so scared."
Afghan government and coalition officials have been quick to praise the Afghan police commandos involved in ending the siege, offering their actions as an example of the steadily improving quality of Afghan security forces. But a McClatchy reporter at the scene Friday observed Norwegian special forces soldiers – the Afghan commandos' trainers – leading an assault on the restaurant where the attackers were holed up.
Ekrullah, who like many Afghans uses only one name, said he did not believe officials' claims that Afghan security forces will be able to adequately defend the country when the majority of international combat troops leave by the end of 2014. "We're so nervous about the future after 2014," he said. "The Afghan security forces need at least five years' support and development. They're just not ready now."
University students represent a sophisticated and educated young elite in a country where the majority of adults are illiterate, and they are not prone to overstatement. However, almost all of the dozen students McClatchy interviewed said that security was getting worse and that the government was not being honest with its people about the severity of the crisis.
Earlier this week, the U.S.-led coalition reported that insurgent attacks in May rose 21 percent from the same month last year, a sign that the Taliban-led insurgency is far from defeated. None of the students had confidence that the Afghan government or its security forces would be able to cope with the growing challenge.
"The ANA (Afghan National Army) are recruiting people who have economic or other problems," said Aisha Mohammadi, a 21-year-old law student, referring to the fact that many recruits are unemployed or drug users. "They're not motivated; they just want a job."
Mohammadi said that the attack at Qargha had seriously damaged the perception that security in Kabul had been relatively good. "I'm worried, I'm scared," she said. "Now my family won't allow me to go to Qargha for a picnic."
The Taliban have claimed in a Website statement that they targeted Spozhmai because the restaurant was being used for activities prohibited by Islamic law, including prostitution and the consumption of alcohol. However, while alcohol was known to be used at the resort, managers there and local authorities have strongly denied the claims of illicit sexual activity.
Psychology student Abdul Sami, 20, said that the real message the insurgents wanted to send was very clear: "The Taliban want to show their power, their strength, and that they can attack anywhere they want to."
Law student Sahar Yaser, 23, in her final year at the university, said that women were especially shocked by the incident because the area was one of the few where families felt they could visit with some degree of safety.
"I was one of the people who used to go to the lake, but now families will not dare go there," she said.
Asked about claims by Afghan and coalition officials that security – and the quality of Afghan security forces – is improving, she said: "I don't believe them at all. In the presence of armed forces from many NATO countries, security is bad, and it will only get worse when they leave."
Yaser said she was worried that, after 2014, a civil war could restart like the one in the 1990s, which broke out after a Soviet-backed regime in Kabul collapsed in 1992. The instability that resulted from fighting among various factions was one of the main factors in the rise to power of the Taliban.
Nineteen-year-old psychology student Faiz Mohammad said that "as things stand, it's obvious that security will deteriorate" after foreign troops leave. "I don't believe what the international forces or the Afghan government say about having improved our country's security," he said.
Kabul, the capital, was supposed to be one of the most secure provinces, "yet even the districts of Kabul are not safe," he added.
Sonia, a 21-year-old journalism student who only had one name, said that Afghans were capable of defeating the Taliban-led insurgency but couldn't do it without honest leadership from their government.
"The Afghan government is hugely corrupt, and because of its corruption it has no legitimacy," Sonia said, arguing that 90 percent of Afghans did not trust the Karzai administration.
"The Afghan government does not care about us – about the young generation that is educated. So imagine how little they care about those people who are poor and uneducated," she said.


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So I found this article via twitter on MTV Geek...its about a new Masters of the Universe comic series starting in June..here is the link to the article.
So I found this article via twitter on MTV Geek...its about a new Masters of the Universe comic series starting in June..here is the link to the article.
I figured this was coming. Just had a feeling it had to happen eventually. Pretty exciting a company like DC is doing it, exposure wise. I'm really intrigued by the basic premise of the series too. Man I hope it's good. The art looked pretty cool in the article.
It's weird to see the (rather annoyingly dismissive) attitude that MTV Geek seems to have about He-man. I guess I didn't realize people thought He-man was that cheesy.
Interesting! Yay James Robinson, boo Phillip Tan. Where're Val and Emiliano when we need them...?
WOOT! This will be good. I think this bodes well for the line.
Rambo was a documentary filmed in real time.
Exciting! I think the idea for the book sounds fun, too!
But argh...I wish people would quit misspelling 'Grayskull!'
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It's about time! Hopefully this will kick start some other things!
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WOW, great news overall!!
I'm not too sure I like where the story may be headed, but I'll hope for the best!!
It's also too bad that it's only slated to be a six issue series. I'd love to get an ongoing comic series that properly tells the MOTUC canon. There are lots of stuff in the MOTUC canon that I'm not fond of, but I still find the whole story interesting.
"Oh Lord, Bless this M&M... and the mighty cockroach I slain in battle to get it." - Al Bundy
Just noticed the top of Grayskull looks a bit weird in that pic though. I think He-man (and the sword!) look good.
This is good to hear! I'm excited to pick them up.
From the sounds of it, this isn't taking place in the MOTUC canon from the bios. It sounds like a completely original story. I'm surprised by that, but at the same time totally cool with it!
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Im happy it's not following the MOTUC cannon I'm really liking the parallel universe-esq concept that he's planning. A good day for MOTU fans!
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The MOTUC line and all its fans were taken for the ass
Let us never forget.
The real reason I'd like to see an ongoing MOTUC comic is because I'd love to read stories where He-Man regularly interacts with characters like Hydron, Sweet Bee, Draego-Man and all the others encompassed in MOTUC.
"Oh Lord, Bless this M&M... and the mighty cockroach I slain in battle to get it." - Al Bundy
This is AMAZING news!!!!! I have been clamoring for some new MOTU entertainment of any kind! I am a comic book reader and think that this is great!! I truly hope this does well and that it will turn into an ongoing series!!!! It would give me another addiction beyond the Walking Dead series/show and collecting MOTUC's
I'm on cloud 9 right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
NOTE: the only thing that could have made this new better would have been the involvement of Val and Emiliano. They rocked it out with the 200X comic series
Awesome! I can't wait for the new stories to come out. But does anyone else get the sense that the interviewer didn't exactly do his/her homework before the interview, or that they just got someone who had a very generic familiarity with MOTU to ask the questions?
This is awesome! I'll have to check in Previews to make sure I order it!
For the Honor, for the Glory, for the Power of GRAYSKULL!!!
Knowing how the comic industry works these days, I'm guessing it's a six part series to start (and maybe even a series of minis at first) to gauge readership interest before launching an ongoing. I hope it works. I haven't bought a comic series in a long time but I'll be buying this one, of course. The first issue is out in July, so hopefully it'll get a big SDCC push.
Shame you can't order these from Matty with your figs.
MOTUC needs:Tung Lashor, Rio-Blast and rest of the Hordes!
WANTED: Minicomics !!! Swords NEEDED !!! MY FEEDBACK
Where's the rest of the Vintage New Adventures?
MOTUC wants: KAYO, Hoove, Chef Allen, Catra variants, Starburst She-Ra, Hunga the Harpy
Great .org transactions: sdilks, Man-E-Toys, bigassbuzz x2, Climan, wolvie3579, air23cnhit, Jestermon, Skystalker, Shecky
woooow a great day for this "cheesy" property.
Best MOTU news we had in a long, long time
"A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked."
Most of the MOTUC bios are pretty awful, so I'm glad it won't be based off them.


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Bradycardia, or slow heartbeat, is often present in athletes. It may, however, indicate conduction problems, especially in older people. In one type of bradycardia, called sinoatrial or atrioventricular block, or heart block, rhythm can be maintained by implanted electrodes that act as artificial pacemakers.
Tachycardia, or heartbeat faster than 100 beats per minute in the adult, can be precipitated by drugs, caffeine, anemia, shock, and emotional upset. It may also be a sign of overactivity of the thyroid gland or underlying disease. Flutters, and the even faster fibrillations, are rapid, uncoordinated contractions of the atrial or ventricular muscles that usually accompany heart disorders. Atrial fibrillation may be idiopathic, the result of rheumatic mitral valve disease (see rheumatic fever) in young people or hypertensive heart disease (see hypertension) and arteriosclerotic heart diseases (see arteriosclerosis) in older people. It may result in a rapid pulse rate and may be associated with thrombus formation in the atria and a risk of embolization to the brain (stroke) or other organs. Atrial fibrillation is often treated with digitalis and other drugs that regulate heart rhythm or heart rate. It may also be treated by catheter ablation, in which an electrode produces heat to destroy cells causing the arrhythmia. Ventricular fibrillation is a sign of the terminal stage of heart failure and is usually fatal unless defibrillation is achieved by immediate direct-current defibrillation. Some tachycardias can be managed by the implantation in the upper chest of small defibrillators that sense dangerous fibrillations and administer an electric shock to the heart to restore normal rhythm.


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Cox, La Russa, Torre -- End of an Era
In an excerpt from Chapter 8 of "How Baseball Explains America," a new book examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, Hal Bodley writes about an iconic managerial trio.
One by one their names were called -- Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa.
In an excerpt from Chapter 8 of "How Baseball Explains America," a new book examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, Hal Bodley writes about an iconic managerial trio.
One by one their names were called -- Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, Tony La Russa.
And then they buttoned their spanking new shirts with "Hall of Fame" scripted across the front and it was a glorious celebration for baseball. Together, they own 7,558 wins, eight World Series championships, and almost a century -- actually 91 years -- of living the uncertain life of a Major League manager.
When this legendary troika was unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame in December 2013 it signaled the end of an era.
They were the faces of their teams -- each just as much a celebrity as the players who controlled their destiny. They had rockstar status.
Consider this: During 1996, Torre's first year, the Yankees finished seventh among the 14 American League teams in attendance at 2.2 million. By 2007, they were first, drawing 4.2 million, and he was a huge reason why.
Only Connie Mack (3,731) and John McGraw (2,763) won more games than La Russa (2,728), Cox (2,504), and Torre (2,326), and that comes from a list of the 680 who've managed in the 137 years Major League Baseball has been around.
Only 23 managers have been invited to join this special Hall of Fame fraternity. I predict getting there in the future will be much more difficult.
Oh, the door isn't being slammed shut; it's just that baseball managing is dramatically changing. Producing the credentials Cox, Torre, and La Russa possessed will be almost impossible even for the brightest young skippers.
In years to come Jim Leyland, Lou Piniella, Bruce Bochy, and Davey Johnson could find their way to Cooperstown. No question, they're deserving, but their splendid careers fall a few steps behind the newest Hall of Famers.
It's more than a changing of the guard. None of the above reached the magical 2,000-win plateau.
Earl Weaver, Whitey Herzog, Sparky Anderson, Tommy Lasorda, and Dick Williams were a generation behind Cox, Torre, and La Russa. They were from the same mold.
These all were managers who defined the role we've come to know.
Today, it's a different game. The job has changed. It's unlikely any of the new breed will be able to sustain the types of careers their predecessors have built.
Most managers today are an extension of their general manager, the executive wing. They're tied to computer-generated analytical studies of players and teams. They alone seldom make all the on-field decisions.
Seat-of-the-pants managing is now as outdated as complete-game pitchers.
When La Russa was earning his stripes with Oakland in the mid-1980s, I often identified him as a "state-of-the-art" manager. He was a fierce competitor, but more innovative than anyone in the business. He had tremendous impact on the game.
He pioneered the use of the specialized bullpen and the one-inning closer. He tried using a left-handed third baseman with the White Sox in 1983 and 1984. He and his pitching guru, Dave Duncan, experimented with a three-man rotation.
I was sitting with Tony one night in Spring Training and he kept looking off into space. "I'm thinking about tomorrow's [exhibition] game," he finally told me. "I have some things I want to try."
And yet when his election to the Hall of Fame was announced, he shrugged off his innovations.
"I've never invented anything, but always somebody taught me something," he said.
In this new era, I compare Tampa Bay's Joe Maddon to La Russa, although it's doubtful Tony subscribes to the new genre.
Joe is my modern-day state-of-the-art manager. With a ridiculously low payroll, he's guided the Rays to the postseasons four of the last six years. They've won 90 or more games the last four years.
He agrees the election of Cox, Torre, and La Russa is the end of an era for managers.
"I think Jimmy Leyland should go, but the omnipotent manager is no longer going to exist," he said. "In the past, organizations rotated around managers. In the next several years teams are going to revolve around managers and general managers, and front offices.
"There's got to be more of a marriage between both to co-exist in today's world. We do it that way in Tampa Bay. I think that's the right way to do it.
"The way the game has evolved, looking for edges, and really trying to make better decisions based on high finance, you don't want to rely on the older techniques.
"Moving forward, the young manager who's willing to work with the front office and create this marriage with that section or sector, that's the group that will be maintained for a long while.
"Furthermore, when the manager gets fired there's not going to be the upheaval in the organization that occurs now."
Maddon added now when the manager is let go it becomes an entirely different organization with gloom on the other side of it.
"When the philosophy I'm talking about is embedded in the organization you're not going to bring someone in and operate in an entirely different manner. The new manager is going to have to fit into the structure."
John Hart, longtime general manager of the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers, now an analyst for the MLB Network, isn't certain the era we're accustomed to is truly passing us by.
"Could be, but I'm not sure," he said. "I like some of the new guys who're managing.
"The Mike Mathenys and John Farrells, the guys obviously who were in the 2013 World Series. They've been impressive."
Hart agrees, though, they both worked closely with their general managers throughout the season.
"The real question is can they do it for a long length of time?" he asked.
Even operating in what might have been the old-fashioned way, Cox, La Russa, and Torre might not have had the types of relationships with the front office Maddon describes, but they obviously worked well with their bosses.
Each was fired at least once, but became more successful the second or third -- or in Torre's case, the fourth time around.
Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle was at the Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in December 2013 when the election of La Russa, Torre, and Cox was announced.
"I was standing in the rear of the room and when I saw them go up on the stage and sit down I felt like a six-year-old kid," he said. "The game was impacted by these men, lives have been impacted by them in such a positive way. How great is our game to have the opportunity to put all three in the Hall of Fame at the same time, to share the honor together-to honor one another?"
Is it the end of an era?
"Time will tell. It very well could be," Hurdle said. "All I know is seeing those men reminded me back when I was a young manager and I'd warn my players, 'I'll guarantee you one thing. You're going to have to play very good tonight because I'm going to get out-managed by that guy over there,' whether it was Lasorda, Torre, Cox, or La Russa.
"The one thing each one will tell you is that they got opportunities. It wasn't one opportunity. They used their eyes and ears. They had a passion for the game. And all were proactive in different areas…"
…Again, it seems extremely unlikely any future Hall of Fame manager will come close to equaling the achievements of La Russa, Cox, and Torre.
All three managed in both leagues, even though Cox spent 25 of his 29 years with the Braves and at one time won a world-record 14 consecutive division championships. He won just one World Series, a six-game conquest of Cleveland. It was the Braves' first championship since 1957, giving the franchise three titles in three different cities -- Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Tom Glavine, World Series MVP, won two of the four games.
La Russa split his 33 seasons-17 in the American League with the Chicago White Sox and Oakland, and the last 16 with the Cardinals.
For Torre, his fourth stop, with the Yankees, changed his life and punched his ticket to Cooperstown. He had managed 14 years in the NL with the Mets, Braves, and Cardinals…
…So, we're standing back, watching this magnificent era of managers pass by -- all 7,558 wins, the eight World Series titles, the century of work. I don't think any of them are geniuses. They didn't always outthink their opponents, but they always outworked them. Their strategy wasn't like a computer printout, but they seldom got out-maneuvered. Their determination to win was as relentless as it was fierce.
Joe Torre, Bobby Cox, and Tony La Russa defined the greatness of an era -- an era unlikely to be seen again.
Reprinted with permission of Triumph Books, www.triumphbooks.com.
Hal Bodley, dean of American baseball writers, is Correspondent Emeritus for MLB.com. Follow him @halbodley on Twitter.


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Megan Bergerud (basketball) of Virginia and Jared Massengill (baseball) of Neoga have been named the UIS Athletes of the Year. The awards were announced May 10 at the annual Athletics banquet. Elizabeth Kelly of Carlinville (basketball) was named Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
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A celebration of the work of Smith Professor Susan Heideman, whose paintings and sewn paper collages explore the textures and movements of imagined organic forms. Heideman will retire in spring 2012.
Over the last decade I have been making artworks about "in-betweens," entities that live in the lines separating taxonomy, realm, and condition. The forms defy Newtonian physics, unaffected by gravity or mass. Rubbery things dissolve into the diaphanous, while filmy substances penetrate solid planes. Regardless of density, scale, or structure, these object/beings swim, fly, hurl, creep, ooze, or ride geyser-like spouts through their plastic contexts. A cavity good for hiding may prove to be something's mouth. Fingers and feet, knobs and tubules, organelles and auras sprout from or retract into matter of uncertain composition as these beings thrust, twist, and fold themselves over and into each other. Although their interactions chart something I can barely name, "nature's insides" comes close. I try to convey an otherworldliness that is weird and familiar, as full of pratfalls and belly flops as of wonder.
I express this border-crossing in two categories of abstract artworks: large oil paintings on stretched canvas, and sewn paper collages. I refer to the latter, ongoing since 2006, as the Proteanna Series. These works consist of torn and reassembled fragments of my old monotypes, works whose imagery was inspired by invertebrate marine biology. Sewing is a key element in this collage process; I use it both as the sole means of attaching paper to paper, and as a method of "drawing" new imagery. I begin the process by ripping the monotypes into pieces with little to no regard for how the tearing ruptures the imagery. Then I start reassembling the jagged, disparate pieces into phylogenetically-challenged hybrid forms. I suture unlike forms together, sew these grafted entities onto large sheets of watercolor paper, then paint (with aqueous media) and sew additional features and forms into and around them, further mongrelizing their identities in ways that are completely improvised. This process may continue for days or weeks, as new sutured forms get sewn atop others, and additional "drawing," (ie, sewing); painting; and grafting goes on in a continuous evolutionary process of accrual, obliteration, and fusion driven by a kind of artistic creationism.
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One chart stands out in today's Breakfast with Rosie: the comparison of yesterday's surprisingly weak Consumer Confidence number with comparable prints taken at financial crises and tragedies of the past such as the October 1987 markets crash, Desert Storm, LTCM, the dot com collapse, September 11, Katrina, and Lehman. No surprise: yesterday's was the lowest. And as a reminder, the president's reelection campaign kicks into higher gear in a few months…against the backdrop of the most unhappy popular sentiment in recent years. Just how do QE 3 skeptics believe he will succeed, when still faced with consumer confidence that two years into the "recovery" is lower than during any other previous economic "expansion", even as congress is about to unleash the most brutal wave of fiscal consolidation (aka austerity) in recent American history.


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Celebrated composer and multi instrumentalist Yann Tiersen has just signed to Anti-Records. Tiersen is a renowned and startlingly unique artist whose early albums merged cutting edge classical with flourishes of folk with the bristly energy of post punk. And while these works attracted a dedicated fan base, it was his soundtrack to the beloved indie film "Amelie" which introduced Tiersen to a far wider audience.
Since then Tiersen has continued to attract fans with a continuously evolving sound and memorable live performances at everything from distinguished concert halls to rock festivals including a recent appearance at this years Coachella Music and Arts Festival in California. A collaboration between Tiersen and hip-hop artist Sage Francis "The Best Of Times" proved a breakout track, with several prominent English DJs debuting the song to an overwhelmingly audience response.
Tiersen's new album Dust Lane, set for release October 12, 2010, is the result of an intensive two year creative process in which Tiersen not only composed the songs but played every instrument besides drums. It began with acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and toy drums followed by the addition of electric guitars and bass and finally the incorporation of the vintage analogue synthesizers of Tiersen's post punk youth.
"I was a teenager during the late eighties and early nineties and was a huge fan of the analog synth," Tiersen explains. "I have several synths that love so much at home and so I started to spend my days in front of the beautiful knobs of my Prophet 5 and my Moog and oh!! miracle, it suddenly seemed so natural to add their texture to Dustlane. I really love the space they bring to the album."
The album's vocals are a combination of atmospheric choruses as well as Matt Elliot (who has worked with Mogwai, Blonde Redhead, Thurston Moore, The Pastels) providing dramatic narration on several tracks including "Chapter 19" which excerpts the writer Henry Miller. "Henry Miller is perhaps my favorite writer," Tiersen explains. "He changed my perception of life during my youth as much as the punk and post punk bands did. And with his low deep voice and Bristol accent Matt did an absolutely perfect job. "
The end result is a sonically expansive and emotionally powerful album that, like Tiersen's renowned career, defies easy categorization. As Anti-Records president Andy Kaulkin explains, "We are genuinely excited to be working with an artist of Yann Tiersen's immense talents. He is an incredibly innovative artist who breaks down boundaries and can't be put in a box and we hope to do a wide variety of projects with him. "
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray said Sunday night he is returning for his senior season.
Murray announced on his Twitter account he won't leave early to enter the N.F.L. draft.
"Blessed to be the QB for the Dawgs, not ready to leave just yet. Time to get back to work & help lead this team to a championship," Murray said.
Murray, a fourth-year junior, already has graduated. He led Georgia to a 12-2 finish that included a loss to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference championship game and a victory over Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl. Murray threw five touchdown passes in the bowl game.
Murray is the first quarterback in SEC history to pass for 3,000 yards in three straight seasons. He had 3,898 yards passing this season to set a Georgia record, topping Eric Zeier's mark of 3,525 in 1993. Murray threw 36 touchdowns passes and only 10 interceptions and leads the nation with a 174.8 passer rating.
Another top Georgia junior, linebacker Jarvis Jones, has announced he is entering the NFL draft. While Jones is projected to be a high first-round pick, the forecast for Murray was not as clear. Murray likely would have expected to be selected no higher than the second round.
Georgia issued no immediate statement on Murray's decision.
Coach Mark Richt said recently he would support Murray and other juniors no matter their decisions on the draft.
"If these guys choose to stay, I'm thrilled obviously, but if they choose to go I'm their No. 1 fan ether way because I just want what's best for them," Richt said. "I can't say what's best for them. They have to figure out for themselves. They're grown men now."
Murray's decision means Georgia's offense will return almost all of its top starters from a unit that averaged a school-record 37.8 points.
Georgia loses senior receivers Tavarres King and Marlon Brown but will return receiver Malcolm Mitchell, tailbacks Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall and all five starting offensive linemen.


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If I am scanning old photographs, newer technology is better. It is faster with higher resolution than just a few years ago. If I am searching census records, the new technology that allows me to view images of the census pages online from my home computer is nearly a miracle compared to searching through miles of microfilm. But technology has its place. Unfortunately, not all researchers realize the limitations of the current technology. For example, I now find people who have searched for their ancestors online in one of the large subscription databases, like Ancestry.com, and think they are through searching. The same thing happens with FamilySearch and New FamilySearch. I commonly find people who think that all they have to do is look in one database and that is essentially the end of their search for ancestors.
Here are several rules concerning the relationship of genealogical research and technology:
Rule One: Technology is not a substitute for thinking.
There is no software program, Internet site or new tech gadget that will substitute for serious, deep thinking about your genealogical problems and challenges. Many of the newer programs attempt to provide you with expert research assistance. Although, these features may suggest places to look and Websites to visit, they are not a substitute for your own effort and thought. Just because I can load my entire genealogy file on an iPhone or a flash drive, brings me no closer to solving difficult relationship issues. Sometimes the technology merely gets you to the problem quicker.
Rule Two: Technology will fail just when you most depend on it.
Computers, hard drives, digital cameras, iPods, iPhones, scanners and all other mechanical/electrical devices will eventually fail to operate. Storage devices, like flash drives, CDs, DVDs and hard drives can all fail any time. If you become so dependent on technology that you cannot function without it, you will reach a point at which you cannot function at all. Every time you become aware that you are depending on a particular program or piece of hardware, you should re-evaluate your work habits, to make sure you can continue to function despite a catastrophic failure.
Rule Three: Your ancestors did not have TVs, computers, cell phones, scanners digitizers and they still survived long enough to perpetuate your family.
I have to admit that I would not want to give up my electronic gadgets or my Internet connection. Many of the kinds of research I do and the way I preserve my documents involves very high technology equipment. But, I would not die without a computer and I would still be able to do a significant amount of genealogical research. I have been doing research long enough to know that this would be the case. In fact, I miss working in large libraries as much as I used to.
Rule Four: You have to ask the question to get the answer.
Computers do not volunteer information. You have to understand how to ask for what you want from online services and any other technology. Even though a lot of people can operate a computer at a fairly competent level, they may be completely clueless when it comes to doing original online research in valid source material. Properly formulating a question is half of the solution. No matter how advanced the technology, you must still ask the question.
Rule Five: There will always be a newer or faster something, most of time this can be ignored.
Newer and faster does not always mean better. However, change in inevitable. New programs and new sources for information will sometimes mean the older programs and sources are no longer very useful, if useful at all, but this may not always be the case. As an example, there is no need to run out and buy the latest camera if yours is still working and doing an adequate job. Likewise, as long as your computer does what you need done, there is no need to replace it. This does not mean you stick your head in the sand and ignore technological advances, it does mean you make changes to your equipment and programs when you can realize a measurable increase in capabilities. When your perception reaches the point that you believe the computers to be slow, then they have outlived their usefulness.
Rule Six: No matter how easy new software is to use, there will always be someone who cannot understand how to use it.
I am surrounded by people who are, for the most part, entirely adsorbed into the modern world of technology. I am sure our family has well over thirty blogs for example. But I meet people almost every day who cannot operate a computer at all and seem proud of the fact. One nice lady in my class the other day, said, "I know nothing about computers and I am not going to learn." As time passes this type of thinking may become extinct, but now we are being forced cope with those who cannot turn on their own TV programs, much less contribute to the overall world of technology.
My Grandmother lived until I was married with children, but she never flew in an airplane or learned to drive a car in her whole life. Some people just naturally seem to resist change and technology is all about change. Many people my age never learn how to operate any of the new technology at all. They live in a world of technological surprises and often feel constantly threatened. There are probably as many reasons for being technologically challenged as there are people who are so challenged. As genealogists we need to try mightily to overcome technological challenges in order take advantage of all of the extremely useful items and developments that are now appearing.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Technology in genealogical research has its place
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I enjoyed this article, and am glad that we have the technology, but we also have to think to use it. I am not young, so I do feel stupid regarding new technology, although I sub. to PC World and Smart Computing. Most of my thinking is utilized in writing blogs. Anyway, thank you for this eye-opening article.ReplyDelete
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Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter who helped bring murderous Klansman to justice, will present a lecture on civil rights cold cases on Thursday, April 18, 2013. The free, public event will be held 6:30-8 p.m. in the Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South.
The lecture is one of several events in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences' Civil Rights Commemorative series, as well as a part of the UAB and City of Birmingham partnership, 50 Years Forward, the ongoing 50th anniversary commemoration of the seminal events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Mitchell is a journalist for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., and his work is credited with the arrests of Byron De La Beckwith, for the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers; Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966; Bobby Cherry, for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls; and Edgar Ray Killen, for helping organize the June 21, 1964, killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mitchell has received many national awards including a prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Government.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Miami's season, the one that's supposed to end in an NBA championship and vindication, was slipping away.
LeBron James brought it back.
And this time, Dwyane Wade helped him.
James scored 40 points, Wade added 30 – 22 in the second half – and Miami's dynamic duo took over after halftime to get the Heat even in the series with a 101-93 win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday.
With Chris Bosh injured and back in Florida, the James-Wade tandem saved the Heat, who will host Game 5 on Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena.
"Just survival," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "This is what the playoffs are about."
James was at his MVP best, adding 18 rebounds and nine assists and refusing to let Miami's season slip away.
"It's still going to be a dogfight," James said. "It's a three-game series now."
Wade rebounded from the worst playoff game of his career, shaking off a 1 of 8 shooting start and adding nine rebounds and six assists.
Danny Granger scored 20 to lead the Pacers, who had the Heat down but couldn't put the defending conference champions away.
Down by 10 points in the third quarter, the Heat were in danger of having their championship dreams obliterated by an Indiana team outworking them at both ends and backed by a towel-waving fans.
James would have none of it.
Wade either.
Wade, who scored five points in Game 3 and yelled at coach Erik Spoelstra on the sideline during a third-quarter timeout in Miami's 19-point loss, came alive in the third when he made all six shots and scored 14 points.
"I've been doubted before. I'll be doubted again," Wade said.
James added 14 as well in the period as the pair landed a 1-2 punch on the Pacers' chin.
"We had a terrible performance in Game 3," James said. "We wanted to redeem ourselves."
Granger's 3-pointer had given Indiana a 61-51 and the Pacers, outhustling the Heat to loose balls, appeared poised to take a commanding lead in the series.
But that's when James and Wade put on a jaw-dropping spectacle, combining for all but two points in a 25-5 run that put Miami up 76-66.
During one sequence, Wade lost his balance and fell and was lucky to push the ball toward James near the top of the key. As Wade scrambled to his feet, James alertly passed him the ball and he calmly knocked down a 3-pointer to give the Heat a 64-63 lead. The pair made easy shots, tough ones and did everything in their power to steer Miami away from a 3-1 hole.
Only eight teams in league history have overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven series. That's what the Heat were staring at with a loss in Game 4.
The Heat took a 76-70 lead into the fourth, and every time Indiana got close, either Wade or James responded.
Miami also got a huge lift down the stretch from Udonis Haslem, who hasn't been a factor in the series but made four big jumpers in the final six minutes despite playing with a large bandage over his right eye after being elbowed by Indiana's Tyler Hansbrough.
Granger's 3-pointer got the Pacers within 96-91 with 1:33 left, but Haslem hit another short shot and James closed the Pacers out with three free throws in the last 16 seconds.
Leandro Barbosa dropped a layup just before the horn to give the Pacers a 54-46 lead at halftime, closing a second quarter that included another altercation involving Granger.
Wade was fouled hard on a drive with 12.6 seconds left by Hibbert. After the whistle, Miami's frustrated star slapped off the Indiana center's arm after the two got tangled. Granger didn't like that and he confronted Wade nose-to-nose in the foul lane.
Wade turned to one official and pleaded to "get him out of my face."
Granger was slapped with a technical foul for the second straight game, and as Wade lined up to shoot his free throw, Indiana's forward kept jawing at him.
"I'm right here," Granger said, standing near mid-court.
Wade got the message, and he and James returned one of their own in the third.
His team's dynamic disrupted without Bosh, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra changed his starting lineup for the fourth time in four games, putting Ronny Turiaf at center and starting Shane Battier up front with James for the second straight game. The switch did nothing to stop the Pacers from getting off to another strong start.
Indiana was up 9-0 in a blink and led 19-11 after Granger dropped a 3-pointer.
James, though, got things going for the Heat and had them within 25-18 after one, a deficit that could have been much worse if not for the Pacers missing several wide-open 3-pointers.


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Mumbai: Demonstrating true sportsman`s spirit and enthusiasm, superstar Shah Rukh Khan backs sports as a profession. He says it should be considered a good job opportunity and that parents must be educated about how games can be a viable career option for their children.
"Parents will always be wary of sports as a profession and I don`t see why they should not be...Parents will have to see that there is a job opportunity here," he said at the launch of Toyota university cricket championship held here Thursday.
Owner of Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League (IPL) team, he added: "I am a big speaker of sports as a commercial success. Parents should know that it can be a salary job. Your kids will be proud of you."
A sports lover, the 47-year-old is willing to support every sport in the country.
"My movies has given me the position of a brand ambassador of a certain caliber. I would like to utilize it in whatever way possible for the sports," he said.
"I actually would like to be the brand ambassador of any sport in the country. I am good at sports. I love sports. I like cricket. Hockey is the best game in the world," he added.
However, what bothers him is that even today children can`t confidently say that "they want to be a professional sportsman".
"In the last 25 years, because of the advent of technology, story writers and all, a lot of people want to be in media and films. The age of conventional jobs is over.
"But I think we have not reached that stage in our country where children can come up and say I want to make sports my job and be a professional sportsperson," he added.
Other than cricket, King Khan also wants to encourage football in India.
"We are the only nation who are on the threshold of development and we don`t have a good football team," he said and added the most of the developing nations have it "as it is a cheapest sport".
The actor, who is associated with the hit sports-themed movie "Chak De! India", a film that put the women`s hockey under spotlight, feels the condition of women sports hasn`t changed much.
"I haven`t seen a change. Films reflect society and show the condition of women`s sports. It is sad that the situation is like this. I really think it is more important for women to come up. We keep talking about rights and protection, but I feel one of the biggest things for women is to divert their energies and attention to promote women`s sport," he said.
Talking about the motto of his team Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh said: "My team has only one plan, go win the match and win the IPL championship."


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I think my mind and the flavours of this dessert have been conditioned by the conversation I had on Skype with my sister. She started to tell me about the dragon fruit flowers blooming in her garden at night and how ephemeral they are. Indeed, they quickly fade the next morning. Then, she kept on telling me about all what grows well in her backyard and her prolific coconut tree…
Later on, in my kitchen, I was thinking of baking with passionfruit. I like the way this fruit adds a kick to anything.
That's what it does to this coconut custard too. It's a combination full of contrast. The passionfruit brings tang and crunch with its seeds, to a sweet and silky coconut custard.
Coconut Crème & Passionfruit (makes 6)
2 eggs
70 g brown sugar
400ml coconut milk
5-6 passionfruits, halved and pulp scooped out
Preheat oven at 160°C. In a sauce pan, pour coconut milk and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat. In a bowl, whip eggs and sugar for a minute. Keep on whipping and add gradually hot milk. Pour the preparation through a sieve to remove the foam, then share it equally into small ramekins/bowls. Place ramekins in a large ovenproof dish and fill the dish with boiling water, until 3/4 full. Bake for about 30-35 minutes or until set. Remove carefully from oven and let cool down completely. Wrap and keep in the fridge for a couple of hours. Remove from the fridge 5 minutes before serving and add passionfruit pulp on top.
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- GP2 news
Cecotto Jnr joins Arden
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- Johnny Cecotto
- Teams:
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Johnny Cecotto Jnr has been announced as one of the Arden drivers for the new GP2 season.
Cecotto joins the team from Barwa Addax, where he won his first two races in GP2 last season as he secured feature race victories in Monaco and Germany. Having tested for Toro Rosso in the Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test, Cecotto also drove for Arden at the Jerez test and said he had immediately felt at home within the team.
"I'm delighted to have signed for Arden Motorsport," Cecotto said. "It's one of the best teams in current Motorsport with a great history too. We had the possibility to get to know each other in a test and straight away there was a great feeling between the engineers, mechanics and me. I feel it was the right moment to sign so that we have plenty of time to prepare for the Championship well and I can also prepare mentally and physically for the 2013 GP2 Series. The target is definitely to win the Championship and I'm sure that both the team and I have the potential to do so."
Arden's sporting director Julian Rouse said Cecotto's performance in the test had convinced the team it could improve on Luiz Razia's second place in last year's championship.
"It is great to have Johnny joining our GP2 team for the 2013 season," Rouse said. "He has shown great potential since he first joined the Series three years ago and he has developed strongly with the current car and the Pirelli tyres. We had an excellent test together in Jerez, finishing both sessions at the top of the time sheets, which assured us of his talent on track and technical ability to work with the team. I am more than confident that if we work hard together we can go one better in the Drivers' Championship in 2013!"


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Are you in the NY, NY area? If so you should definitely attend the free OTN Developer Day- Hands-on Oracle Database 11g Applications Development event at the New York Marriot Marquis on January 13, 2010. I will not be there, but much smarter colleagues of mine will like Mike Hichwa (VP of Development Tools, father of Application Express), Marc Sewtz, David Peake and Christina Cho.
Bring your own laptop for the labs.
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Safeguarding mangrove ecosystems for their ecological, social and environmental value was the central topic of discussion amongst five Pacific Island Countries during an Induction Workshop of the Mangrove Ecosystems for Climate Change Adaptation and Livelihoods (MESCAL) Project undertaken in Suva last week from October 27th to 30th.
MESCAL is a new regional project being implemented in Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands under the guidance of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The four day Induction Meeting of the project provided the opportunity for the national MESCAL Project Coordinators to meet and discuss opportunities and challenges each country is facing with respect to mangrove loss. In particular countries discussed how to reverse the current rate of mangrove loss, especially when mangroves are considered "no-mans land".
One of the main challenges identified by the five countries is that mangrove ownership is not clear, which over the years has further contributed to the demise of mangrove areas.
"The issue of ownership of mangroves remains unclear in Samoa leading to overlaps in mandates and management frameworks," says Ms. Malama Momoemausu of Samoa.
"Through the MESCAL project, Samoa and the other four countries would attempt to address these overlaps and improve coordination among communities, government(s) and private sector"
Similar issues are being faced in the Solomon Islands, where "logging of mangrove areas is a key concern, simply because the local people view mangroves as a common resource which unfortunately has drawn them to exploit without taking any responsibility," says Mr. Hugo Tafea of Solomon Islands.
Highly valued for their goods and services and protective role for communities living in and around the coastal zone, mangroves are indeed being lost to uncontrolled human interventions at the local and global level. Weak policies and legislations including inadequate monitoring and control has led to an increase in the rate of loss of mangrove ecosystems through uncontrolled harvesting and conversion of the land to other land uses.
In developing a long term programme to safeguard and sustainably manage the mangrove ecosystem, MESCAL will work at the community level to look into ways and means where community, institutional and legislative governance can provide the framework from which partnerships and incentives can ensure realistic and achievable sustainable change.
"Based on existing data there is an urgent need to strengthen coordination, legislative frameworks, and support to address information gaps that will allow us to effectively manage our mangrove resources," says Mr. Sione Lepa of Tonga.
"This is another common need for all Pacific Island Countries and because of our similar geographical features, we can implement similar solutions to problems facing our natural resources"
A field visit to Fiji's coral coast provided the national coordinators with the chance to look at two initiatives; a commercially motivated venture and a more conventional NGOs community based approach. The former utilizes a "business and biodiversity" approach and is being run by the prestigious Beqa Adventure Divers.
Located in Galoa village, along the coral coast of Viti Levu, Beqa Adventure Divers provides a cash incentive to the youth of Galoa village to plant mangroves along their coastal area. The goal of the company is to ensure its operation is carbon neutral by offsetting its carbon emissions by planting mangroves. With two hectares of mangroves planted, the initiative is attracting the attention of local businesses and non-government organizations.
"The added value to this approach is that the mangroves will improve the reef quality which in turn adds value to our business," indicates Arthur Sokimi, the resident Marine Scientist at Beqa Adventure Divers.
In Naboutini village, also located along the coral coast, 17 year old planted mangrove stands are bringing fish species back, according to the villagers. Increased fish catches and reduction to damages to the village infrastructure from storm surges are some obvious benefits to replanting mangroves. Having experienced the benefits of mangrove rehabilitation, the villagers of Naboutini are now extending their replanting initiative to cover more than 2 km of their coastal zone.


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Game of Thrones is no stranger to crossing over with modern music - during season 2, the show arranged for the indie rock band The National to record a cover of the Lannister drinking song/revenge anthem "The Rains of Castamere." That melancholy ditty played over the credits of the season's penultimate episode, "Blackwater." The song served as a dour exclamation point to a breathtaking hour of television, as well as a reminder to the audience that in spite of its feudal setting, Game of Thrones is a thoroughly modern creature.
Now it appears that the Thrones showrunners are taking this kind of pop-musical connection a step further: The show recently announced that it has cast Will Champion - drummer for the band Coldplay - in an unnamed cameo role.
According to a report from E! Online, Will Champion has signed on for a brief appearance in season 3 of Game of Thrones. Though the show's producers are being cagey about his exact role, it has been confirmed that he will play (surprise!) a drummer. Whether this means he will actually be playing music or if he'll simply be a battle drummer standing in the background is yet unknown.
Champion is not the first popular musician to be cast in Game of Thrones. The announcement of his involvement follows the revelation that Gary Lightbody, the lead singer of band Snow Patrol, will also appear in a minor role during the next season. Lightbody tweeted a photo of himself in Thrones-appropriate costuming earlier in the year.
Taken on its own, the news that a famous drummer will make a cameo in a well-loved television show is amusing, but forgettable. However, I have a theory about his (and maybe even Gary Lightbody's) role. Rumors about the narrative arc of season 3 have suggested that it will end with one of the source books' most shocking incidents ... which happens to involve a band and its ominously competent drummer. What if Game of Thrones is going to feature noted rock personalities in one of its most infamous sequences? I certainly hope so. If I'm correct, it may mean that we could see Champion and Lightbody with crossbows in their hands in the near future.
Game of Thrones marches back onto television screens March 31st, 2013.
Source: E Entertainment


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Summary Meeting Notes: December 18, 2012 Networks PEG meeting
December 18, 2012 from 1 to 3:20 p.m.
PEG Members Attending: Bill Beamer, Aaron Brown, Ivy Dunlop, Eric Hesse, Denver Igarta, Keith Liden, Linda Nettekoven, Lidwien Rahman, Irene Schwoeffermann, Chris Smith, Peter Stark, Pia Welch, Eric Engstrom, Courtney Duke
PEG Members Absent: Mike Faha, Gavin Prichard, Allan Schmidt, Jay Sugnet
Other Attendees: Mary Vogel, Roger Averbeck, Patricia Nabor, Franklin Jones
Facilitator: Jim Owens
Key Points and Outcomes:
In reflecting on the equity workshop conducted in November, it was noted that the discussion of equity is broader than race and needs to consider age, income and other demographics.
A presentation on the role of freight in meeting the City's economic development goals noted that traded sectors drive the regional economy, with freight movement projected to grow 2-4% annually. Key challenges include responding to a projected shortfall in lands designated for industrial uses and avoiding conflicts among transportation modes, especially in the context of a Green Hierarchy. The group generally felt that to best accommodate freight, and thus meet economic development goals, modal functions should be distributed among roads versus having roads attempt to serve all modes. Given the limitations to expansion of the freight system, managing the existing system is key to facilitation of freight movement. Before proceeding with policy language on doing no harm to freight movement, it will be essential to understand what this means 20-30 years in the future. Improved inter-bureau coordination will be key to avoiding or minimizing conflicts among Plan policies specific to the various transportation modes.
In response to an informational briefing on recent Bureau research and analyses on new apartments and parking, the group indicated a desire to remain engaged in this issue, with a report at the next meeting on the discussion of this issue at the upcoming Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting. Key concerns included reduced on-street parking capacity associated with increased densities and cumulative impacts to neighborhoods, the equity aspects of increased housing costs associated with on-site parking, and how to funnel the savings realized by developers into the neighborhoods affected.
Presenter: Jim Owens, Facilitator
Summary: PEG members, staff and members of the audience were asked to introduce themselves.
Reflections on November Equity Workshop and Review of Schedule for Upcoming Meetings
Presenter: Jim Owens
Summary: Observations about the November Equity workshop included that it was very educational, but that the discussion of equity is broader than race and needs to consider age, income and other demographics.
Jim Owens reminded the group of the schedule for upcoming meetings:
- January 15: 1:00-3:00 pm – Transit
- January 30: 3:00-5:30 pm – Review of draft Plan Update document
Freight's Role in Meeting Economic Development Goals
Presenter: Steve Kountz, BPS
Description: Presentation on City's economic development goals, the role of freight in meeting those goals, and how current land use designations accommodate freight and respond to economic development goals.
Key points in the presentation included:
- While there is steady growth in housing, employment growth has been flat.
- Traded sectors drive the regional economy.
- Freight growth is projected at 2-4% annually.
- There is a widening gap in economic equity.
- A 720-acre shortfall in industrial lands is projected for 2035. There are limited options for expansion of existing industrial areas; intensification of uses may be a better option. ThePortlandHarborand Columbia Corridor represent the best options for expanded industrial uses.
- Reinvestment in freight infrastructure is another key option to meet industrial needs.
- Edge areas have had higher job growth than the Central City.
Questions and discussion included:
- Office uses within industrial areas should be a consideration in planning for higher density industrial uses.
- Most external freight routes are state highways.
- There is no black and white answer about how to best integrate freight with auto, bicycle and pedestrian uses. Modal functions should be distributed among roads versus having roads serve all purposes.
Related Materials:
- PowerPoint presentation
Freight Network and Sustainable Freight Strategy (1:45 p.m.)
Presenter: Bob Hillier, PBOT
Description: Presentation the City's existing freight network, classifications, and Sustainable Freight Policy.
Key points in the presentation included:
- Portlandis a global freight gateway - 4th largest freight hub on the West Coast.
- Pipelines are also part of the transportation/freight network.
- Over 70% of freight movement is by truck; trucks are expected to continue to carry the majority of freight.
- The underlying strategy of the 2006 Freight Master Plan is to do no harm to freight movement.
Questions and discussion included:
- Idling trucks is an issue that needs to be addressed.
- Street design standards are integral to freight network classifications.
- To facilitate freight movement, designated freight lanes should be considered where there are known congestion problems.
- Given the limitations to expansion of the freight system, managing the existing system is key to facilitation of freight movement. It is essential to understand who we are trying to serve and how.
- Getting to/from jobs in industrial areas can be a challenge.
- In reviewing the draft Plan, policy language is needed on doing no harm to freight movement. Also needed is a matrix that provides a methodology for coordination among modes.
- What does doing no harm mean in 20-30 years?
- The draft Plan needs to address how the freight system fits within the Green Hierarchy?
- Inter-bureau communication needs improving to identify potential conflicts/solutions early.
Related Materials:
- Sustainable Freight Strategy Summary
- Definition of Portland's freight Street Classification System
- Portland Freight Network Map
Public Comment
Roger Averbeck: There should be an emphasis on safety in trying to accommodate multiple modes.
Franklin Jones, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery: Provided data on amount of freight being moved via bicycle. Requested that the group consider the role of alternative modes in freight movement.
Briefing on New Apartments and Parking
Presenter: Matt Wickstrom, BPS
Description: Informational briefing on recent Bureau research and analyses on new apartments and parking, followed by a Question/Answer session.
Key points in the presentation included:
- Portland has the second lowest apartment vacancy rates in the country.
- There are 23 apartment projects planned without parking; the large number of projects has made this an issue of community concern.
- BPS recently completed a parking and behavior study that, along with other bureau research and community concerns, will help inform Planning Commission deliberations on thresholds, accessibility, location of parking exceptions, neighborhood contact protocols, and transportation demand management (TDM) strategies.
- Parking policies in the draft Plan do not address this issue.
The group indicated a desire to remain engaged in this issue, with a report at the next meeting on the discussion of this issue at the upcoming Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting. Questions and discussion included:
- As densities increase, there will be less on-street parking capacity.
- Will parking management be a component of TDM strategies?
- The Central Eastside and Northwest industrial districts are developing permit systems to minimize parking "poaching".
- Cumulative impacts to neighborhoods need to be considered.
- The cost of providing on-site parking, e.g. underground, is an equity issue.
- The storing of cars on the street is an enforcement issue.
- The savings that developers gain from not providing on-site parking should be funneled to affected neighborhoods.
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Meanwhile, though, some of the players have already exited. One alternative asset investment firm with expertise in distressed assets decided to call it quits after buying 300 homes, but declined to say why.
In the case of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, it's interesting that Warren Buffett is buying the transactions (the brokerage service) and not the product (the houses). Buffett may have found a better way to profit from this new trend. However, in the ongoing quest for broad new asset classes, not even he can set the boundaries. Only time and market forces will decide that.


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