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A Jalopnik reader caught this Ferrari 599 crashed off the road near Jacksonville, Florida. Apparently 612 horsepower and rear-wheel-drive are a bit of a handful in the rain. Who knew?
Our tipster described the event in his own words:
2-15-12 on I-295 East Loop, heading North over the St. Johns River (Dames Point Bridge) 3 lanes each way of high speed fun. Apparently wet conditions did not help this Ferrari as it was heading down the bridge. The driver's side hit the left concrete guard rail trashing the whole left side of the car leaving the hood 25 feet away.
The car must have went across three lanes of traffic to rest facing the wrong direction. The accident held up traffic really bad, don't see this kind of accident everyday in Northeast Florida. Parts of the hood, front nose and the left entire headlight housing were left in the median.
The Ferrari 599 has a reputation for being tail-happy even in the dry, so this crash isn't exactly a surprise.
UPDATE: The owner posted over at FerrariChat and explained what happend:
8 am yesterday morning got side swiped by 18 wheeler changing into my lane, hit me in drivers front quarter, spun me out, hit median at 70 mph spun down high way for 1/4 mile and literally walked away.
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New data shows that seed-to-sale tracking and other tight controls have made the state's legal-weed transition a success.
It may be too early to declare whether Colorado's ongoing legal experiment with legalized recreational marijuana has been successful from a policy standpoint, but a new study from the Brookings Institution finds that the state's implementation of the regulatory and taxing structure for legal weed has been largely a success.
Brookings' John Hudak spent a week in Denver to interview various elected officials, regulators, industry officials and others involved in the rollout of Colorado's legalized marijuana market since voters approved a November 2012 constitutional amendment authorizing legalization.
According to Hudak's introduction:
At its heart, this report is about good government and takes no position on whether the legalization of retail marijuana was the correct decision. Instead, it takes for granted that Amendment 64 and its progeny are the law and should be implemented successfully, per voters' wishes. The report examines what the state has done well and what it has not. It delves into why, and how, regulatory and administrative changes were made. Finally, it offers an evaluation of how effective the implementation has been.
Overall, the initial implementation of the state's retail marijuana market has been effective in part because of the state "made intelligent decisions about regulatory needs, the structure of distribution, prevention of illegal diversion, and other vital aspects of its new market. It has made those decisions in concert with a wide variety of stakeholders in the state," Hudak writes.
Leadership on the issue from state officials, cooperative work by task forces and working groups, adaptive regulations and "changes in culture in state and local government, among interest groups, and among the public" were cited as successes.
But strong government leadership was cited as a particularly important factor:
State leaders—from the governor to agency heads to legislators, as well as a variety of actors throughout the system—did something nearly unheard-of in an era of policy gridlock and political polarization. They set aside their personal views and coalesced around the idea that Colorado wanted legalized marijuana and it was their duty to make that a reality.
As for the "nuts and bolts" of Colorado's regulatory structure, Hudak points to six important aspects of the successful implementation:
- A seed-to-sale tracking system.
- A vertically-integrated structure for the marijuana market.
- The creation of barriers to entry for new marijuana businesses and relying on existing producers from the state's medical marijuana community.
- Limits of quantities that can be purchased.
- Video surveillance requirements.
- The distribution of marijuana tax revenues to enforcement, plus education, prevention and public safety.
More problematic areas of implementation were outlined in the study, as well. Hudak noted that the edible marijuana market opens the door to overindulgence—with marijuana tourists being particularly vulnerable—and the constitutionally protected right to grow marijuana at home allows the potential for some users to bypass the regulated recreational market. Also, the study found that Colorado's existing medical marijuana system creates a "gray market" that can continue to be used by people without a medical need and skirt the higher taxes of the regular recreational marijuana market.
And what if the experiment goes awry down the road? "With its emphasis on flexibility, Colorado is taking out an insurance policy against unintended consequences," Hudak writes. "Regulators, legislators, and other officials see implementation of marijuana policy as a fluid process in which early efforts must be continually reassessed and, if need be, revised to ensure effectiveness."
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Good Morning Jerry Brown,
Good Morning Jerry Brown,
You and the California Congressional Caucus are in the position to add $260 Billion per year to California�s annual GDP, at no expense to California taxpayers, by doing another State a favor -- Florida.
All you and the California Congressional Caucus have to do is actively support Florida's request for "secession" and initiate and pass Congressional legislation that states that Federal facilities, which serve national interests, should be located in those States whose taxpayers pay for the support of those facilities.
Referencing USAspending.gov an OMB website, CNBC reported that California taxpayers are subsidizing 72% of Florida's annual GDP. (#1 subsidized State in US). According to CNBC, the US Federal government annually subsidizes the Sunshine State $30,318 per capita. When you multiple $30,318 times 19.1 million Floridians, you get the approximate annual cost of ObamaCare. You need to know, those subsidies come from California taxpayers and US-FED Debt, sans an ROI for California or America. Shouldn't US-FED Tax Monies be recycled in the tax-source States whenever possible?
Florida should really appreciate California taking appropriate action. The presence of military bases in Florida forces Floridians to participate in a political activity which is against the political Principles of Floridians.
Taking California taxpayers' dollars to subsidize Florida's GDP is applied SOCIALISM.
Most of Florida's 21 military base activities could be relocated -- to California. An independent State of Florida would then be free to reimburse the US-FED for services that primarily benefit the host State (i.e., US-FED Resources Regulation, Grants and Coast Guard). Florida would be free of SOCIALISM.
The "facts" behind Florida's situation and the need for California Congressional Caucus action:
1) Secession really benefits Florida and the US. In the not too distant future, Florida's military bases will have to begin importing a workforce to provide civilian support for their facilities. Florida's public schools do not provide the tech-trainable workforce necessary to support the civilian workforce needed by tomorrow's military. Based on national standards, Florida's K-12 schools don't graduate college-ready students or tech-trainable candidates for America's Tech-sTem-driven workforce.
Florida's school districts have indicated no interest in making the "schooling" changes necessary to tech-grade the capabilities of local high school, college, or university "graduates" to meet the predictable civilian support needs of tomorrow's military or the tech-sTem-driven American workforce.
Florida has laid the groundwork for building a Polytechnic University similar to Cal Poly. In truth, Floridians lack the enterprise management experience, the university-level intellectual resources, the K-12 level student competencies, or the public support necessary to build a nationally recognized Polytechnic University.
2) Florida's "secession" would eliminate a significant direct Federal Tax drain, plus reduce a majority of "Grant" requests submitted to the US-FED for additional US-FED aid. Simply processing Florida's "Grant" requests may cost the US-FED more than Floridians pay into the US Treasury from their un-subsidized GDP. The reduction of Florida's Grant requests could reduce the US-FED annual deficit by possibly $200 Billion.
3) California should respect and support Florida's political perspectives and lifestyle aspirations. Secession would relieve Floridians of the necessity of pretending to protect, support, and defend something they don�t believe in -- the US Constitution. Floridians' "Home Rule" perspectives violate the Spirit, Intent, and the Written Word of the US Constitution --
The US Constitution is ignored legally and politically at all levels in Florida. Four of the Initiatives on the ballot in the last election violated the US Rule of Law, as does about 80% of State Statute. No politician or attorney in Florida can accurately complete the following "The US Rule of Law states..." in 48 words or less. The ACLU has sued Gov. Scott 11 times for Constitutional violations. Local school districts consistently violate their students' Constitutional Rights with impunity. There is no "...provide for the common defense..." commitment in Florida. Florida has the highest percentage of young adults, 18-24 years old, who are unfit for military service in the USA.
Importing a competent workforce to meet the support needs of the military will meet with considerable local resistance. Newcomers are not welcome in Florida. Local Florida communities practice graveyard nepotism and the sanctification of antebellum political and social traditions, in both public and private employment, which have successfully opposed "change" for decades. Floridians focus on lowering their taxes and eliminating "regulation", not providing competent community services nor "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
4) The 2012 Presidential Election tells Americans and the world all they needed to know about Florida: 14 days to vote; 10 days to count the votes; Results submitted 5 days after the election was over. Why? Floridians, when they read, read very slowly. Only 28% of Florida-born 3rd graders will graduate from high school by completing and passing all of the required courses for earning a standard or better Florida high school diploma.
Florida only requires Basic = Level 2&3 -10th grade reading skills for a standard High School diploma (lowest in USA today).
The REALITY of 21st Century life in America -- Floridians want individual freedom from responsibility or obligation to the USA. It is time to give Florida what Florida wants -- its independence. Please recruit the California Congressional Caucus to consider and support Florida's secession, and initiate legislation that relieves Florida of participating in American SOCIALISM. It is the Right thing to do -- for Florida, for California, and for America.
John Comer, SI Class of '47
Port St. Joe, FL
P.S. Florida's secession would not cause any "brain drain" for the U.S.
Among U.S. universities, the top 3 Florida Universities are: University of Florida #122 in the U.S.; University of Miami, #193, and the University of South Florida, #240. If non-PhD granting colleges, like CalPoly (SLO-CA) were included, it is unlikely any Florida school would be in the top 400 in the U.S. It is a K-12 problem. As my grandfather used to say, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."


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Not long ago, we received a press release confirming that Ubisoft is working closely with New Regency for the development of the much-anticipated Assassin's Creed movie. At the time, the release date and many other crucial details were kept secret. However, something leaked out.
Hmmm, not sure what to think about this.
Could be great, could be awful. Depends on who is making it and who is in it, i guess...
Already watched it, but back then they called it Prince of Persia
Michael Fassbender is a great actor. Every movie he's played in are masterpieces so I'm sure it'll be a good movie. Who knows, maybe like Wreck-it Ralph it'll be another good movie inspired by video games (loveddd it)


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Iolani Palace
Of course, since we were pressed for time, we arrived at 9 AM to see the orientation video and check out the book shop. I ordered several heavy history books and other assorted gifts, and had the Palace Shop ship them home for me. We had a 50 pound weight limit for our suitcases with American Airlines, and some of those history books were heavy! It turns out that the same books were much more expensive at the local Honolulu Borders bookstore, and purchasing them at the Iolani Palace was helpful towards their fundraising efforts.
The Hawaiian people are somber and serious about the history of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the monarchy, and the docents giving the tour of Iolani Palace instilled that thought in my mind right at the beginning of the tour. Since the palace had been confiscated government property, turned into an office building and then abandoned, the restoration over the past dozen years has been lovingly and carefully taking place. Auctioned and discarded furnishings are slowly being recovered and returned to the Palace, and their provenance carefully recorded and documented. Booties are required for all tourists, and the docents and guards are quite eagle-eyed about the rules and regulations.
Since photogaphy wasn't allowed inside Iolani Palace
Hubby photographed this poster of the Queen's Imprionment Quilt
I don't have enough space to tell you here all about the tour, but let me relate one small detail. We saw the throne room, music room, King Kalakua's office and bedroom, but the most emotional part was visiting the "Imprisonment Room" where Queen Lili'uokalani was kept under house arrest. After the opulence of the other bedrooms, her spare white, metal bed is heart breaking. However, the quilt she made whilst passing her sentence is also here on display, and my cousin and I searched it over for her grandfather's name. It was a special moment to see the Queen's own famous quilt and to read the names of her supporters, including someone's own grandfather embroidered on it! I had been looking forward to seeing the Queen's quilt as a highlight of my Iolani palace visit, but seeing with Sheri made it extra special!
After saying goodbyes to our cousins, we went to the Hawaii State Archives which are located right behind Iolani Palace. We spent over four hours digitally photographing hundreds of letters to Mary Dominis and Governor John Owen Dominis. We ran out of time, but the finding aid listing the Lili'uokalani collection listed many, many pages of boxes of folders, diaries, and photo albums of personal and family papers, not including her official state and governmental documents. We ended up with over 560 digital images.
At this point I've decided that another trip to Hawaii will have to be made to see all these documents. The volume of items is too big to request copies through the mail, especially since I need to sift through for family information. Of the letters we photographed, most were ones sent to Honolulu from Boston, Cambridge, Dorchester and other places in Massachusetts or New England that I suspected were family members. Many of the letters from San Francisco were from Holt descendants. A more thorough reading of other letters might prove they were from family members, too.
I decided to stop photographing when I realized that it will take me months and months just to read and transcribe the letters we did find in only two boxes from the archives! This is enough juicy detective work to keep me busy this year! Hopefully I can fill in more names and missing cousins from the family tree, and the few letters that I have read already are full of pathos and intrigue. Imagine how precious those letters were when they were written in the 1830s and delivered by whaling ships and china trade clippers leaving Boston and bound for Auntie Mary Dominis and Cousin John in the Sandwich Islands!
Please note that in our excitement we walked into the Hawaii State Archives and forgot we were both wearing leis. However, this didn't faze the staff at all, and we allowed full access to letters dating back to the 1830s, some in quite fragile condition. I remember the brouhaha that developed after Sarah Jessica Parker was seen not using gloves on the TV series "Who do You Think You Are?" When I finally realized (an hour after we entered the archives) that I still had on a flower lei, I giggled out loud!
Me just before entering the archives, or
me just after leaving- either way I'm wearing Sheri's leis!
Mahalo Sheri!
Stay tuned for transcriptions of these letters and updates on any new information on this blog.
http://www.iolanipalace.org/ the official website for Iolani Palace, with visitor and historical information
The Queen's Quilt, by Rhoda E. A. Hackler and Loretta G. H. Woodard, published by the Friends of Iolani Palace, 2004. This 32 book is available at the Palace Shop at Iolani Palace, and is listed online at the website. There are photos of each quilt square, noting the embroidered names and secret symbols.
http://hawaii.gov/dags/archives/front-page the website for the Hawaii State Archives, including the email address for inquiries.
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Just found this forum site and joined, I always post on the fuge- but I figure the more sites with information that you can access the better your success. I've got a question for you guys. I've got a zodiac and have been doing quite a bit of scouting this summer already. i've read that some people go to goose bay and hunt. I've been over there from the arm side and it seems like an alright place- and i've found a couple little ponds that i'd like to hunt. But I don't want to get in anyone else's spot. Can u guys let me know how many people go over there, and how they get there. I'm wanting to stay by the inlet and not go in very far. Thanks
Also- how about the eagle river flats? You have to get permission from ft. rich but i know the people to talk to to get that done. Any of you hunt over there? I've been down that way and it looks good but i just don't want it to be to many people over there. Kinda like how rabbit slough is getting. I think i'm giving up on that place, and swan/leaf lake areas and jims creek.
sorry this post is so long- but i've got 2 seasons left here and i plan on hunting 70+ days these next 2 years. Lets get scouting and open this place wide open. We need to reduce california's harvest numbers!


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George Dantzig's parents were Tobias Dantzig and Anja Ourisson. Tobias was born in Russia, but went to France where he studied mathematics in Paris being taught there by Poincaré. At this time Tobias met Anja who was at the Sorbonne at this time also studying mathematics. They married and emigrated to the United States, settling in Oregon. Tobias believed that his strong Russian accent would prevent him from obtaining jobs other than as a labourer, and at first his jobs included that of lumberjack, road builder and painter. It was into this very poor family that George was born.
Tobias and Anja chose names for their children hoping that these would influence their future careers. George was named "George Bernard" after George Bernard Shaw since his parents hoped their first child would become a writer. Similarly George's younger brother was named Henry after Henri Poincaré, and he did indeed become a mathematician. Tobias was fortunate to gain the chance of reading for a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Indiana, while Anja obtained a Master's degree in French becoming a linguist at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
The family were now living in Washington D.C., and there George attended Powell Junior High School where his progress in mathematics was, at first, rather poor. Encouraged by his father, and determined to do well in mathematics and science, he soon began to obtain top marks in mathematics. This continued at Central High School where he became fascinated by geometry. By this time he was getting strong support from three people: an outstanding mathematics teacher at the High School, a school friend who would go on to become a professor of mathematics at Berkeley, and his father. George later wrote that his father:-
... gave me thousands of geometry problems while I was still in high school. ... the mental exercise required to solve them was the great gift from my father. The solving of thousands of problems during my high school days - at the time when my brain was growing - did more than anything else to develop my analytic power.Tobias was working on his most famous work Number: the language of science in the late 1920s and George helped him. He later wrote:-
As a teenager, I prepared some of the figures that appeared in the book.The book was published in 1930 and when it was reprinted in the 1970s a reviewer wrote:-
Since its first appearance nearly half a century ago the book has gone through a number of printings and has deservedly maintained its popularity.After graduating from High School, Dantzig decided to study mathematics at the University of Maryland, where by this time his father was on the Mathematics Faculty. Despite the improved status of his family, Dantzig's parents were still quite poor and not in a position to finance their son through a more prestigious university. He received his A.B. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Maryland in 1936 and in the summer of that year he married Anne Shmuner. The newly married couple moved to Ann Arbour where Dantzig began graduate studies at the University of Michigan as a Horace Rackham Scholar. In 1937 Dantzig was awarded an M.A. in mathematics, having studied under T H Hildebrandt, R L Wilder and G Y Rainer.
Unhappy with abstract mathematics, the only courses he enjoyed being on statistics, Dantzig decided to give up his graduate studies. He moved to Washington where he worked as a Junior Statistician on a project "Urban study of consumer purchase" at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1937 to 1939. Having read statistics papers by Neyman, Dantzig wrote to him in 1939 asking if there was any possibility he could obtain a teaching assistantship at Berkeley so that he could complete his doctoral studies under Neyman's supervision. It took Neyman a little while to arrange the teaching assistantship but he managed to do so and Dantzig began for a second time to undertake graduate studies. We quote an often repeated story from this time in Dantzig's own words [3] (see also [2]):-
During my first year at Berkeley I arrived late one day to one of Neyman's classes. On the blackboard were two problems which I assumed had been assigned for homework. I copied them down. A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework - the problems seemed to be a little harder to do than usual. I asked him if he still wanted the work. He told me to throw it on his desk. I did so reluctantly because his desk was covered with such a heap of papers that I feared my homework would be lost there forever.When the United States entered World War II in 1941 Dantzig put his graduate studies on hold for a second time, although by this time he had already completed the coursework and written his Ph.D. thesis. He went to Washington and joined the Air Force as a civilian. From 1941 to 1946 he was Head of the Combat Analysis Branch, U.S.A.F. Headquarters Statistical Control. In 1944 he was awarded the War Department Exceptional Civilian Service Medal. He wrote of his time there:-
About six weeks later, one Sunday morning about eight o'clock, Anne and I were awakened by someone banging on our front door. It was Neyman. He rushed in with papers in hand, all excited: "I've just written an introduction to one of your papers. Read it so I can send it out right away for publication." For a minute I had no idea what he was talking about. To make a long story short, the problems on the blackboard which I had solved thinking they were homework were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics. That was the first inkling I had that there was anything special about them.
My office collected data about sorties flown, bombs dropped, aircraft lost... I also helped other divisions of the Air Staff prepare plans called "programs". ... everything was planned in greatest detail: all the nuts and bolts, the procurement of airplanes, the detailed manufacture of everything. There were hundreds of thousands of different kinds of material goods and perhaps fifty thousand specialties of people. My office collected data about the air combat such as the number of sorties flown, the tons of bombs dropped, attrition rates. I also became a skilled expert on doing planning by hand techniques.In 1946, after a break of five years, Dantzig returned to Berkeley for one semester, receiving his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California. He was offered an academic post by Berkeley but had turned down the offer:-
Berkeley made me an offer, but I didn't like it because it was too small. Or, to be more exact, my wife did not like it. It was a grand salary of fourteen hundred dollars a year. She did not see how we could live on that with our child David.By June 1946 he was in Washington considering a number of different possible jobs. His colleagues at the Pentagon asked him to take on the job of mechanizing the planning process. This appeared to fit in exactly with his interests so that year he was appointed Mathematical Advisor at the Defense Department to undertake the task.
In 1947 Dantzig made the contribution to mathematics for which he is most famous, the simplex method of optimisation. It grew out of his work with the U.S. Air Force where he become an expert on planning methods solved with desk calculators. In fact this was known as "programming", a military term that, at that time, referred to plans or schedules for training, logistical supply or deployment of men. Dantzig mechanised the planning process by introducing "programming in a linear structure", where "programming" has the military meaning explained above. The term "linear programming" was proposed by T J Koopmans during a visit Dantzig made to the RAND corporation in 1948 to discuss his ideas. Having discovered his algorithm, Dantzig made an early application to the problem of eating adequately at minimum cost. He describes this in his book Linear programming and extensions (1963):-
One of the first applications of the simplex algorithm was to the determination of an adequate diet that was of least cost. In the fall of 1947, Jack Laderman of the Mathematical Tables Project of the National Bureau of Standards undertook, as a test of the newly proposed simplex method, the first large-scale computation in this field. It was a system with nine equations in seventy-seven unknowns. Using hand-operated desk calculators, approximately 120 man-days were required to obtain a solution. ... The particular problem solved was one which had been studied earlier by George Stigler (who later became a Nobel Laureate) who proposed a solution based on the substitution of certain foods by others which gave more nutrition per dollar. He then examined a "handful" of the possible 510 ways to combine the selected foods. He did not claim the solution to be the cheapest but gave his reasons for believing that the cost per annum could not be reduced by more than a few dollars. Indeed, it turned out that Stigler's solution (expressed in 1945 dollars) was only 24 cents higher than the true minimum per year $39.69.In [11] Dantzig wrote (see also [9], [10] and [12]):-
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.But he also modestly wrote:-
The tremendous power of the simplex method is a constant surprise to me.The importance of linear programming methods was described, in 1980, by Laszlo Lovasz who wrote:-
If one would take statistics about which mathematical problem is using up most of the computer time in the world, then ... the answer would probably be linear programming.Also in 1980 Eugene Lawler wrote:-
[Linear programming] is used to allocate resources, plan production, schedule workers, plan investment portfolios and formulate marketing (and military) strategies. The versatility and economic impact of linear programming in today's industrial world is truly awesome.Balinski [4] writes:-
Mathematical programming has been blessed by the involvement of at least two exceptionally creative geniuses: George Dantzig and Leonid Kantorovich.He then goes on to say that Kantorovich received the Nobel Prize for his contribution and expresses "outrage" that Dantzig did not.
Dantzig became a research mathematician with the RAND Corporation in 1952 and during this period led the work on implementing linear programming on computers. Orchard-Hays writes in [14]:-
The systematic development of practical computing methods for linear programming began in 1952 at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, under the direction of George B Dantzig. The author worked intensively on this project there until late 1956, by which time great progress had been made on first-generation computers.However, feeling that the RAND Corporation was not providing him with a source of fresh ideas, he took up an appointment as professor at Berkeley in 1960 and he was appointed Chairman of the Operations Research Center. While there he wrote Linear programming and extensions (1963). A reviewer wrote:-
An impressive book, the work is very complete, its scientific level high, and its reading pleasant.In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Stanford University where he remained for the rest of his career.
His work in a wide range of topics related to optimisation and operations research over the years has been of major importance. However, writing in 1991, Dantzig noted that:-
... it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.Dantzig has received many honours including the Von Neumann Theory Prize in Operational Research in 1975; The National Medal of Science presented by the president of the United States in 1976; the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis in 1977; the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology from Technion, Israel, in 1985; the Silver Medal from the Operational Research Society of Britain in 1986; the Adolph Coors American Ingenuity Award Certificate of Recognition from the State of Virginia in 1989; and the Special Recognition Award from the Mathematical Programming Society in 1994.
The citation for the Medal of Science states that it was awarded:-
For inventing linear programming and discovering methods that led to wide-scale scientific and technical applications to important problems in logistics, scheduling, and network optimization, and to the use of computers in making efficient use of the mathematical theory.The citation for The Harvey Prize reads:-
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to engineering and the sciences through his pioneering work in mathematical programming and his development of the simplex method. His work permits the solution of many previously intractable problems and has made linear programming into one of the most frequently used techniques of modern applied mathematics.His work is summarised by Stanford University as follows:-
A member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the National Medal of Science, plus eight honorary degrees, Professor Dantzig's seminal work has laid the foundation for much of the field of systems engineering and is widely used in network design and component design in computer, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
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A SARAH: Yes.
DAVID HASSELHOFF: And of what song is it a parody?
A SARAH: "Rubber Duckie" from Sesame Street. (long pause) And, um, my version is called "Sloppy Mommy."
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DAVID HASSELHOFF: (sighs) Okay, let's hear what you've got.
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Probe of Cal State Long Beach professor sought
Law center that tracks hate groups wants to know if anti-Semitism is being taught.
By Louis Sahagun
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April 25, 2007
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday called for an investigation into the campus activities of Kevin MacDonald, a Cal State Long Beach psychology professor whose writings about Jews have been used to support the views of white supremacists.
Of particular concern, according to a center report to be published this week, are MacDonald's theories suggesting that "Jews, who have typically been in the minority in countries around the world, are compelled by an evolutionary strategy that makes them push for liberal policies, like immigration and diversity, with the intent of weakening the power of the majority that rules them."
The law center, which has collected statistics for years on what it considers hate groups, wants Cal State to look into what MacDonald is teaching students and wants to shine a light on his voluminous writings on Jews.
"What we would like to know is why the university seems intent on protecting Kevin MacDonald rather than looking at his possible violations of policy in the classroom," said Heidi Beirich, the center's deputy director and author of the report. "Our primary intent is not to get rid of Kevin MacDonald, but to show the world who he is, what he is doing."
In an interview in his office Tuesday, the tall, lanky MacDonald a fully tenured professor with a doctorate in behavioral sciences from the University of Connecticut insisted that although he has written books on what he calls the evolutionary psychology of Jews, "I have never talked about Jews in my courses."
But he acknowledged that his scholarly research has convinced him that not every instance of anti-Semitism is "irrational."
"Jews, as a group, have interests that sometimes conflict with the interests of the people they live among," said MacDonald, who teaches students seeking a degree in child development. "In general, Judaism is considered a complex and successful survival mechanism, and at times they've been victimized for it. I do think there is a biological element at work here that's existed throughout the centuries."
As for the law center report's allegation that his work has been used to lend a kind of legitimacy to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, he said, "I do not agree with all the views people have, but there is little I can do about that."
Beirich sees it differently: "Not since Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' have anti-Semites had such a comprehensive reference guide to what's 'wrong with Jews.' His work is widely advertised and touted on white supremacist websites and sold by neo-Nazi outfits like National Vanguard Books, which considers them 'the most important books of the last 100 years.' "
One of MacDonald's essays on Jews is highlighted on the official website of former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke, who said it contains "a deeper intellectual understanding of the nature of Jewish supremacism and its implications for European Americans."
MacDonald, 63, is no stranger to controversy. In 2000, he testified on behalf of David Irving, a controversial World War II historian who suffered a stinging defeat in a London courtroom in a libel suit he filed against another writer who described him as a Holocaust denier. Irving also served 13 months in prison in Austria after pleading guilty to denying the Holocaust, a crime in that country.
MacDonald's actions caused an uproar on the Cal State campus and the creation of rules regarding the use and abuse of academic material. They included a warning that it is unethical for faculty to allow their work to be used to support groups that disseminate racial or ethnic superiority or racial or ethnic hatred.
Yet, in a recent posting on his website, MacDonald said that "I would like to suppose that my work on Judaism at least meets the criteria of good social science, even if I have come to the point of seeing my subjects in a less than flattering light. In the end, does it really matter if my motivation at this point is less than pristine? Isn't the only question whether I am right?"
That kind of talk makes some of his colleagues in the psychology department at Cal State Long Beach uncomfortable.
Professor Martin Fiebert said he welcomed the law center's report about his colleague of 20 years. "I think exposing bigotry and cultural insensitivity is a good thing to do," he said. "It may help him sell more books, but it will also reveal his views to a larger audience."
Fiebert added: "The most troubling development lately has been that [MacDonald] is widely cited in neo-Nazi and white supremacist web pages. Some of their issues were framed around his willingness to say that being anti-Semitic is a sort of badge of courage.
"But even talking about these things is tricky," he said. "The last time things heated up, Kevin went to his lawyer, then came back and said if his job was threatened, he'd sue. So people stopped talking about Kevin MacDonald."
Cal State Long Beach psychology professor William Kelemen said MacDonald's notions about Jews "make me uncomfortable."
"It's a radioactive topic," he said, "and it's drawing a lot of attention, most of it negative.
"What is bizarre about it all," he added, "is that these controversies seem to surface every few years, yet no one seems to know what to do about it."
In a prepared statement Tuesday, university officials would say only that "academic freedom does not constrain or restrict the spectrum of knowledge, whether that knowledge is popular or unpopular."
Beirich, however, said, "As it stands, a student cannot get a degree in child development at Cal State Long Beach without taking a course taught by MacDonald. We have no idea what those students are hearing or being taught, because no one is overseeing what goes on in there."
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Despite the vague nature of the so-called identity theft crime, this buzz word is being used in a variety of circumstances to promote both commercial and political special interests. Where it impinges on the genealogical community is in the area of governmental restriction on the availability of vital records and other types of records. There is an unproven and unsupportable allegation that genealogists' access to some types of records is core cause of identity theft.
If you would like me to go back through the statistics yet again, I would be glad to do so, but I am certain that nothing has changed. Think about identity theft the next time you give your credit card to a server in a restaurant, not when you look at the Social Security Death Index.
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House Bill 3252 by Representative John Zerwas (Fort Bend County) would close Texas birth records for 125 years and Texas death records for 50 years. Under current Texas law, birth and death records now become public information 75 years after a birth and 25 years after a death. Proponents of the bill believe that closing birth and death records for 125 and 50 years will prevent identity theft and fraud.
TSGS is actively opposing this legislation. Click here to read the full Legislation Alert.This type of legislation is nothing more or less than a chance to enhance the revenue of the state. It has nothing to do with identity theft. All this really means is that Texas can charge for the copies of its vital records for a longer period of time. I defy anyone to quote to me actual crime statistics from Texas that show any connection between the length of time vital records are closed and the incidence of use of those records in any crime!
Of course, Texas officials are concerned about identity theft. Here is an article called appropriately, Identity Theft, from the Attorney General of Texas, Greg Abbott. If you take the time to read the entire article, you might notice two things; first there is no mention of the definition of identity theft and second, if you have a problem you go to the Federal Trade Commission, not any Texas agency or even the police or sheriff. Isn't it strange that if identity theft is such an issue, that no Texas agency handles complaints?
Down the left-hand side of Attorney General Greg Abbott's website, there are a whole lot of crimes listed. Click on a few and you will see that he cites Texas law for many of the problems listed. Why not for Identity Theft? Because there is no commonly accepted definition of the crime.
One thing that is commonly done to enhance the appearance that identity theft is a huge problem is to include it with general statistics on fraud without breaking out the multitude of different acts classified as fraud. Who cites these vague statistics? Almost uniformly it is companies who are trying to sell you some sort of service to prevent identity theft which they would not be able to do if they cited accurate statistics.
If you buy into the statistical fraud that is used to promote the fear of identity theft, you can easily find documents such as this alarming "White Paper" called "Identity Theft in Texas" from an organization not well identified in the paper as "Identity Theft 911." Oh, guess what? They want to sell you identity theft protection services.
What do you do if you are a good genealogist? You look at the lack of sources or you check the sources to make sure the information is correct. Where did this company get its statistics? From Texas? Nope. From the Federal Trade Commission.
So where have I gone in the past when I write about this subject? To the Federal Trade Commission website? Well, yes but they don't compile crime statistics they compile complaints. How does the Federal Trade Commission define "identity theft?" Here is the quote, "Identity theft happens when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission."
Before I get into another round of statistics to support my position, please start with this post I wrote not too long ago
Genealogy and Identity Theft
There is a real problem here. But limiting access to public records is not the cause and the problem is not going to be solved by extending the time limit on vital records protection by a state.


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Meet "Church" playwright Young Jean Lee: On video, in person
Rising experimental playwright Young Jean Lee, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow from Pullman, Wash., and founder of New York's acclaimed Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, recorded this just-released "I Am Theatre" video segment for Theatre Communications Group.
Lee is the writer of "Church," opening on Thursday and running through Nov. 6 at Colorado Springs TheatreWorks. It features Mare Trevathan, Lija Fishier, Shannan Steele and Kevin Landis, with surprise guest appearances nightly. Its directed by Christy Montour-Larson.
Lee will be in Colorado Springs to speak at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, as part of TheatreWorks' "Prologue" series. A performance of "Church" follows at 4 p.m.
Here's more of her bio:
Young Jean Lee has been called "a rising star" by the New York Times and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by Time Out New York. She has written and directed eight shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. Her plays have been published by Theatre Communications Group (SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN and Other Plays, THE SHIPMENT and LEAR) and by Samuel French (Three Plays by Young Jean Lee). She is currently under commission from Plan B/Paramount Pictures, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P and has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College. She is the recipient of a 2005 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Individual Artist Grant, a 2007 Emerging Playwright OBIE Award, the 2007 Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a 2009 Creative Capital Grant and a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
And here's more on "Church":
Opening Thursday, Oct. 27, through Nov. 6: Come and bear witness as Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. This church of celebration is designed to test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike. In this one-act "story," a charismatic preacher and three members of his vestry will take you on a journey that is by turns funny, jarring and ultimately moving. Never content with simple parody, Lee's ambitious aim with church is to give herself and her audiences a true religious experience. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; 4 p.m. Sundays; also 2 p.m. Saturday matinees Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. At the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, corner of Union and Austin Bluffs Parkway on the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs campus, 719-255-3232 or theatreworks' home page
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Greenwich mogul makes play for Empire State Building
Greenwich real estate baron Peter Malkin wants to add the Empire State Building -- one of world's best known and most storied skyscrapers -- to his portfolio of office towers in Connecticut and New York.
For Malkin, it's a deal worth $5.2 billion that could place him at the pinnacle of Manhattan's real estate elite.
Malkin, who controls the Empire State Building but is now a minority owner, wants to roll the famous 102-story skyscraper into his Connecticut and NYC portfolio, creating common ownership through a real estate investment trust. That trust would be public with shares sold on the New York Stock Exchange.
But small investors say it's not a good deal for them, and they are arguing in court that the proposal, while enriching the Malkin family, would make them poorer. They don't want the Empire State Building mixed in with Malkin's other properties or allow shares to be sold on the stock market.
"We are being cheated," said Thelma Shafran, an 82-year-old New York City resident who, along with her mother, purchased 2.5 shares in the Empire State Building in 1961, when the ownership team of Lawrence Wien and Harry Helmsley bought the property.
Shafran said the "Empire State Building is such a symbol of New York -- you kind of trash it when you dump it in with a bunch of buildings in Connecticut. No name, no-architecture buildings; it takes away the mystique."
More InformationPeter Malkin owns 15 office buildings in New York City, Westchester County and Connecticut, including First Stamford Place, StamfordMetro Center and MerritView in Norwalk.
Malkin Properties also controls or owns nearly two dozen retail and residential complexes in New York and Connecticut.
Value of the Empire State Building deal: $5.2 billion.
The latest offering would increase the Malkin family's stake in the towering Art Deco icon to an estimated $730 million. Anthony Malkin, Peter's son, would become chairman of the new company, Empire State Realty Trust.
The main obstacle comes from a group of minority owners who have asked a New York state judge to block the deal. A hearing was held on Monday and a decision could come today.
Those opponents, led by California businessman Richard Edelman and Andrew Penson, who owns Grand Central Terminal, argue the deal could lower the value of shares and expose investors to tax liabilities and the ups and downs of the stock market.
The 82-year old Empire State Building was the world's tallest building until the World Trade Center was completed in 1973. The building has played a central role in classic movies such as "King Kong," "An Affair to Remember" and "Sleepless in Seattle."
Peter Malkin is well known in Greenwich. He founded and serves as president of the Greenwich Tree Conservancy and is active in environmental issues. And not all of his real estate holdings are gargantuan: he's now converting a former Greenwich Avenue post office into a retail center.
He often attends Greenwich town meetings and is not shy about expressing his views. Malkin recently argued for a ban on leaf blowers, saying they cause pollution, and he wants the power company to bury electric lines to avoid widespread power outages during storms.
Malkin owns 15 office towers in New York and Connecticut, including First Stamford Place and MerritView in Norwalk. His company, Malkin Properties, also controls or owns nearly two dozen retail and residential complexes in New York and Connecticut.
On Monday, Malkin declined comment on the court case or his Empire State Building proposal, which has drawn unusual anger from small investors.
"The hearing was today and the judge indicated we should expect his opinion tomorrow," Malkin said in a voice mail message left in response to calls for comment.
To finance the deal, Wien and Helmsley sold 3,300 units in the building for $10,000 a unit.
Many of the original buyers were far from wealthy and represented average people hoping for a slice of the American dream.
"This is very personal for me," said Shafran, who was born the year the Empire State Building was completed. "It was just regular people who financed it. The original investors were not wealthy. I feel there is historical significance in the way the building was financed."
The Malkin proposal requires approval by 80 percent of about 3,000 stakeholders and he's close to achieving that level of support. Shares owned by investors voting against the new arrangement would be purchased for $100, unless those owners quickly changed their vote.
Malkin has spent months courting investors, usually personally calling them to make his case. Although some described his approach as that of a "pushy salesman," Shafran said Malkin was very polite.
"Everyone received a call from Peter," she said. "They are very nice people. It was a very pleasant conversation."


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Has Science Found a Cure for Double Chins, Or as I Call them Turkey Gobblers?
This is the most exciting news I've heard in a long time. It seems that a pharmaceutical company is finally going to produce a drug that helps reduce the size of double chins. I for one am a big fan of anything that can be done to get rid of a double chin, as I have always tragically suffered from this painful affliction.
It has never mattered how little or how much I weighed, I have always sported a double chin. I can reduce the size of it or make it less prominent by losing weight and exercising, but I have never been able to get rid of it. It has been a genetic curse passed on to me from my lovely mother.
My mother and I always joke that they are turkey gobblers. You have to have a sense of humor when you're living with extra skin under your chin. At one time my mother and I were saving money to have our extra chins removed, but sadly we were forced to give up on that dream due to other things being more important.
I would love to get my hands on this drug. However, I'm sure it won't be one of those things covered by insurance. It will no doubt be in the same category as Botox and Juvederm. So, unless I find some way to make extra cash, I will have to live with my double chin forever.
There is one very large thing that concerns me about this drug, and that is how much time and money went into finding a drug that would shrink a double chin. It seems to me that there is probably something better this drug company could have used its resources on, like, I don't know, maybe finding a cure for cancer. It seems to me that perhaps a cure for cancer would be a little bigger priority that getting rid of people's chin fat.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of the University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Disgraced U.K. cardinal admits bad "sexual conduct"
LONDON The cardinal who until recently served as Britain's highest-ranking Catholic leader on Sunday acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior and promised to play "no further part" in the public life of the church, a statement that comes at an awkward time for the Vatican.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigned Monday from his position as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh after a newspaper published unnamed priests' accounts of unspecified inappropriate behavior.
O'Brien initially rejected the claims, saying he was resigning because he did not want to distract from the upcoming conclave of cardinals that is due to pick a successor to Benedict XVI, who resigned the papacy Thursday. O'Brien also said he would not attend the conclave.
But on Sunday, the Catholic church in Scotland issued a statement quoting O'Brien as saying that there had been times "that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal."
"To those I have offended, I apologize and ask forgiveness," the statement continued. "To the Catholic church and people of Scotland, I also apologize. I will now spend the rest of my life in retirement. I will play no further part in the public life of the Catholic church in Scotland."
O'Brien gave no clue as to what exactly his sexual misbehavior consisted of, but his statement is nonetheless another reminder of the church's struggle shake off a litany of sex scandals, including those involving pedophile priests.
The claims against O'Brien were first reported by The Observer newspaper.
In its Feb. 24 edition, the British newspaper reported that O'Brien was alleged to have made what it described as "an inappropriate approach" to a seminarian after night prayers.
The paper also said another priest had reported "inappropriate contact" with O'Brien following a visit to his parish, a second priest had reported "unwanted behavior" by the archbishop following a late-night drinking session, and that a third had reported being taken advantage of when he went to the archbishop for counseling.
All four, the paper said, had sent letter of complaint to nuncio Antonio Mennini, the Vatican's ambassador to Britain, early last month.
The paper did not cite a source for its reporting last week, but in this Sunday's edition it quoted the still-unnamed former seminarian as saying that the church had failed to respond quickly and appropriately to his complaint.
O'Brien has at times had a rocky tenure as a cardinal.
- Watch: Benedict departs the Vatican
- Should abuse-tainted U.S. cardinal be allowed to vote for new pope?
- Cardinal Dolan: U.S. Church on "right track" in sex abuse scandal
In 2003, as a condition of assuming that rank, he was forced to issue a public pledge to defend church teaching on homosexuality, celibacy and contraception. He was pressured to make the pledge after he had called for a "full and open discussion" on such matters.
At the time, O'Brien said he had been misunderstood and wanted to clarify his position. But statements made last week, before the scandal over his behavior broke, suggested he never really changed his mind.
In an interview with the BBC, O'Brien said celibacy should be reconsidered because it's not based on doctrine but rather church tradition and "is not of divine origin."


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1 Kings Commentaries, Ecclesiastes 12, Metzger Gospel of John, Money for Books, Reformed Groupies, Ryken 1 Kings, Summer Reading 2011, When Love Comes to Town
I recently told my Historical Books' students about the new commentary on 1 Kings by Ryken:
I received announcement today of a new commentary on 1 Kings by Ryken that looks very useful for the task of exposition of 1 Kings…. Good commentaries on 1 and 2 Kings are very hard to find. Many commenters get lost in the history of the monarchies [seemingly] because they do not understand how narrative works. Few commentaries make appropriate application to modern church and culture, as many writers do not know how to move from Law to Gospel (Christ). Ryken is pretty good at this in his other commentaries, yielding fruit akin to what we teach you in [the interpretation series] courses and demonstrate in the Bible courses. So I suspect it will be the same for this one.
Westminster's bookstore currently is offering the commentary at 45% off.
This summer I have several books on the docket to complete before the start of the fall semester. These include works by Alexander, Grudem, Leithart, MacArthur, Timmer, and Waltke. I am going through the excellent volume by Sailhamer as I am using it for a summer course in the Pentateuch. I still am trying to find a way to incorporate Hamilton's outstanding work into a course. Then again, I haven't figured out how to incorporate my own work into a course. Maybe you can give me some suggestions.
Time probably will not permit me to get as far as I would love to in the festschrifts to Piper and Carson, but I want to make an attempt to be in the Reformed-know. However, I most likely will fail quickly at that task, since I have no plans of jumping on the groupie wagon for Allison's recently released, Historical Theology (Zondervan); in this vein, I simply want to finish the small text by Haykin (and in a related vein – and vain – Trueman). Groupies, have it without me!
Two days ago I received by mail Metzger's, The Gospel of John: When Love Comes to Town for a book review I intend to write. Just yesterday one of my colleagues suggested that I should pick up William Golding's Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, since I place Lord of the Flies on my list of the top three pieces of British Literature. (Huh?) No, the "Huh?" is for Pincher Martin, not Lord of the Flies as a top-three. Lewis, Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, and Golding each tried to warn us about where we were headed with "progress," but we did not listen. Yet I also need to listen to Solomon. So maybe I will be cautious in slipping Golding into my travel bag. What I really need is for someone to slip me some money for all of these titles.


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#meta: Added "Styles temporarily disabled" banner to explain CSS-less-ness of my site as per Brennan Novak's suggestion
#meta: Added "Styles temporarily disabled" banner to explain CSS-less-ness of my site as per Brennan Novak's suggestion
Brennan Novak great idea!
I wish I could write #music like the BBC news intro.
Brennan Novak cool, isn't it ;) I'm going without CSS for a week to ensure my markup is nice and clean
Researching #wordpress plugin API as prior art for my activitystreams events framework. Yuk. Yuk yuk yuk.
Where are the contextual experiences?
So many apps and services assume you wish to have a long-term experience when a teprary one would suit you better.
For example, installing an app you're only going to use for a particular event. Or, subscribing to someone/thing for an event.
@sweden is certainly the country most capable of taking traditional tunes and making them metal ;)
Laura Kalbag really casual, especially for a dog surrounded by TERRIFYING CARPET MONSTERS
Brennan Novak thinking of joining?
New way to subscribe to my #indieweb notes feed: via iCal! http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes.ics
Let's try them out: emphasised, strong,
"Some quote" Barnaby Walters
I added some HTML→Twitter microsyntax routines to my #POSSE helpers library: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-helpers #indieweb
Updates to #php-mf2: vastly improved handling of combined microformats. http://waterpigs.co.uk/php-mf2
Tom Morris I have an electric Hurdy Gurdy, does that count?
OH "Meerkats weren't invented when I was a lad" — John Walters
Learning #angularjs. The documentation is so very much better than #emberjs. I am purposefully not checking out each step of the tutorial, instead writing it myself.
I updated the #php-mf2 web demo again, now you can try out the classic microformats compatibility. http://waterpigs.co.uk/php-mf2/
@raspberry_pi for a moment then I thought it said "Extreme Director" :)
Updated php-mf2 with improved handling of children keys, updated the demo to output JSON and time taken;
Using watercolour pencils are a great way for me to pretend I'm an artist when actually COLOURING!


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The new Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro is both thinner and lighter than its predecessor, but is still orange with a super high-res 13.3-inch screen.
The latest Lenovo's Yoga Pro convertible was launched at an event in London Thursday, and is an incremental update of the well-received Yoga 2 Pro. Just like its predecessor, the Yoga 3 Pro can be used in four modes: laptop, stand, tent and tablet, thanks to the 360-degree hinge.
Besides the screen size, Lenovo has kept the same 3200 by 1800 pixel resolution. But Lenovo has added a "paper display" setting for reading.
Lenovo has also worked to improve the design. A common complaint with touchscreen laptops is that the screen wobbles when touched, but an improved metal hinge on the Yoga 3 Pro should solve that problem, Lenovo said.
The hinge isn't the only design improvement Lenovo has made. The Yoga 3 Pro is thinner at 12.8 millimeters and lighter at 1.19 kilograms, so it weighs 14 percent less than its predecessor.
Hardware specifications include a new Intel Broadwell processor, up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.
Besides orange, users can also choose between what Lenovo calls champagne gold and platinum.
The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro will be available at the end of October and will sell from €1,599 in Europe and $1,349 in the U.S.
Even though it still isn't a household name in all parts of the world, Lenovo has in the last couple of years become a force to be reckoned with for tablets, smartphones and PCs. During the third quarter, the company extended its lead over Hewlett-Packard to almost a million shipments, up from about 100,000 units during the same period last year, according to IDC.
While the overall market dropped by 1.7 percent, Lenovo increased shipments by 11.2 percent to a record setting 15.7 million units.
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