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Early last week, Paul Landvick sat at the bar of the Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis with a glass of Diet Coke, a shot of booze and 10 paper pulltabs in a tidy pile.
One by one, the 54-year-old meat cutter ripped open the matchbook-sized pulltabs hoping for a winner. Nothing.
"If people want to spend their money gambling, it should be up to them," Landvick said.
Soon, Landvick and others like him may have more ways than ever to try their luck, because Minnesota is contemplating its boldest step into gambling expansion in a generation.
Not only do political leaders want to modernize pulltabs to boost revenue, they are eyeing a casino in the heart of downtown Minneapolis and considering video slot machines at the state's horse-racing tracks. For the first time, they would be counting on the revenues to pay for prized amenities such as a Minnesota Vikings stadium and public schools.
The payoff could be huge -- hundreds of millions of dollars in coming years without higher taxes. But the risks, too, loom large if gambling developers fail to deliver, if the money doesn't roll in as projected, or if legal fights swamp the effort. More gambling is proving especially tempting in a climate of chronic revenue shortages and politicians allergic to raising taxes and cutting services.
"People who won't willingly pay another dollar in taxes happily go to one of the casinos and enjoy the evening out, as they're certainly entitled to do," Gov. Mark Dayton said. "The state, we need to develop other sources of revenue."
Until now, Minnesota has resisted a wave of gambling expansion that has swept other states strapped by the recession. In 2010, at least 10 states approved various new gambling measures. Pennsylvania legalized poker and other table games, while New York joined a multistate lottery. Four new casinos are expected to open in Ohio next year after voters approved a referendum in 2009. Iowa has privately run casinos and racinos as well as tribal casinos. Altogether, 15 states now have commercial casinos and 13 states have racinos, according to the American Gaming Association.
Even so, a large and politically powerful coalition of Minnesotans oppose gambling expansion for moral reasons, saying it comes with steep social costs, such as higher crime and gambling addiction. They say it's immoral to solve the state's financial ills on the backs of those who often can least afford it.
"The entrance into gambling by government is a huge, huge mistake," said former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson. "You are fundamentally enticing people into a system of false rewards and it tends to victimize people in the lower income."
Pulltabs could be easiest
Dayton and other supporters say switching to electronic pulltabs and bingo would be the least divisive way to expand gambling. A state estimate shows that the state government could double its take from charitable gambling, adding about $40 million a year. That is the least lucrative of the options under consideration, but would come close to covering the state's annual share of a new Vikings stadium.
Critics doubt that ditching paper pulltabs for snazzy new iPad-type devices would spur that kind of increase in a $1 billion-a-year industry that has experienced a steep, decade-long decline. State revenue officials say their estimate is a rough one. No other state has converted to a pulltab system like the one Minnesota is considering.
Debi Seifert sells pulltabs several nights a week at the Rail Station Bar and Grill in Minneapolis on behalf of the Air Force Association. A decade ago, she could move $5,000 of tabs in a night. These days, she's lucky to sell $1,000. Seifert and other pulltab retailers blame the economy, the smoking ban and the ubiquity of credit and debit cards. Customers, Seifert said, just don't carry cash like they used to -- crucial for her cash-only business. "It is probably never going to be back like it was," she lamented.
Tom Barrett, executive director of the Minnesota Gambling Control Board, said the revenue estimates could be achievable. Tidier and trendier electronic pulltabs will likely appeal to more of the state's 6,000 bars and restaurants, he said.
Block E numbers 'realistic'
If the state moves forward with a casino on downtown Minneapolis' Block E, it would be putting a lot of faith in a man making his first foray into casino development. Bob Lux, with Alatus LLC, is a luxury condominium developer who is untested in the gambling sphere. Lux said any concerns about him should be offset by the fact that the legislation mandates that the state choose a management firm to help develop and then run the state's first non-tribal casino. Lux and his investors have already talked with five potential operators, many of which he said are "household names."
One of the management companies that has already expressed interest is Minnesota-based Lakes Entertainment, which has developed and managed casinos nationwide, including Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand Casino Hinckley.
Lakes CEO Lyle Berman said Block E is a "very good location" for a casino. State revenue estimates peg Block E's projected tax revenue at about $100 million a year, a figure that Berman calls "very realistic."
Proposals to install video slot machines at horse-racing tracks have been floated for a decade. The state's two horse-racing tracks, Canterbury Park and Running Aces, say turning their sites into so-called racinos could revive an ailing horse industry and send needed revenue to state coffers.
A recent state fiscal analysis projects that racinos could bring in more than $130 million a year for the state, based on 2,000 gaming machines at each site. Iowa's racinos bring in about $90 million a year.
Indian tribes, which operate 18 casinos in the state, firmly oppose both the racino and the Block E casino ideas, vowing to file a lawsuit to block them.
Attempts to expand gambling could trigger a flurry of legal challenges that might call the state's entire charitable gambling industry into question. A 1988 amendment to the Minnesota Constitution bars the Legislature from authorizing any lottery other than "a lottery and sale of lottery tickets for a lottery operated by the state."
The legal question of what constitutes a lottery has never been settled in Minnesota. In a letter to the governor on Nov. 3, state Solicitor General Alan Gilbert cited a 2005 Minnesota House research report that says legal authorities in other states have held that "lottery, in this context, includes most casino games. This constitutional provision has been ignored for decades in the case of charitable gambling."
Eric Magnuson, a former state Supreme Court chief justice and attorney now working on behalf of the racino proponents, said the racino is "either a lottery and it's authorized by the Constitution, or it was not intended to be in the constitutional definition of lottery and the Constitution then doesn't have anything to do with it."
Gilbert also noted that to issue appropriation bonds secured by revenue from charitable gambling would require going before the state Supreme Court. That could trigger a wholesale reexamination of what types of gambling are prohibited under the state Constitution.
Risks close to home
State leaders don't have to look far to see things have not always gone smoothly when governments turn to gambling profits to pay bills. In the mid-1980s, Duluth partnered with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to convert an old Sears department store downtown into a casino.
Fond-du-Luth Casino operators agreed to give the city a cut of slot machine profits, which lately has amounted to about $6 million a year. The city earmarked most of the money to repair its battered streets. But in 2009, the tribe stopped paying, arguing the contract was not legal. The city filed a lawsuit for $13 million in back payments.
"It's been a very difficult financial situation for the city," Duluth City Attorney Gunnar Johnson said.
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A member over at NAGTROC made the mistake of modifying his Nissan GT-R engine while it was still under its temperamental warranty. So, when he then broke the cylinder block, he was completely screwed. How it happened, plus pictures, below.
If you'll remember, Nissan's already a bit finicky when it comes to the warranty on the GT-R. But once you start modifying the car in any way — that already-less-than-stellar warranty becomes about as useful as poison ivy when you're looking to wipe your ass.
You can read his description of what happened below and share your theory. For what's it's worth, he thinks he ran the wrong software for the fuel he was putting in his car in Lebanon:
after less than a month driving my GTR after my perfect gearbox rebuilt, i was cruising today on 3rd gear, then i decided to shift to second gear to overtake a car, i down shifted , car accelerates like a missile, then 1 k before cutoff i hear a uninterupted sound like trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr coming from the engine, and some smoke going out of the engine, i look at the oil pressure and oil light in dash they are ok , i look in my rear view mirror and i see oil , i shift to neutral shut down the car and go to the side of the road to stop. i get down of the car open the engine from where smoke is going out, and i see all the oil under the car... at that point i was CONVINCED its an oil pipe that is broken, i called road service to get towed, go to the workshop, and... guess what............ broken cylinder block...... something seems to have broken on the crank, or piston or pushrods and made a big mess..the block is broken on both sides, i guess the broken part blew off left then right.. i was running on AP stage 2 97 version 2.0
the bad news:
- i got AP , Y pipe and 5zigen, car is already blacklisted and out of warranty :( :(
-new engine is 55,000 us$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!
-i'm really really pissed
-i hate nissan management!
-we don't know yet the extent of the damage inside the engine
the only good news:
unlike the GR6, nissan sells engine parts and not only complete assembly.. otherwise i would put fuel on the car and burn it in front of the nissan showroom
here is some pics, can anyone share any experience with the engine? any thoughts what could have happened? is there is any other cases with broken cylinders blocks???? i cant believe that the AP software upgrade could have blow off the engine.. these engines should support more than 70hp of upgraded power IMO
im in love with the gtr but i HATE nissan
For the record — the owner checked with a dealership and a new engine costs closer to $36K.
the fuel we have in lebanon is 98 octane RON while in the US its 93 AKI and not RON. when i downloaded the new AP software , i had to choose the country, and since my GTR is a US spec car, i choosed USJDM software and i ran on stage 2 97 octane software. the 97 octane of the US maps is AKI while i was running 98 octane RON. and 98 octane RON appears to be less than 93 octane AKI... timing settings should have been different... i should have stayed on version 1.08B

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- Eric Liu: I've been working with creative thinkers who are mining the meaning of a good life
- Liu: This New Year's, resolve to reflect on your life
- Here are a list of questions to ask yourself, including who are your influences, aspirations
- Liu: The questions were originally developed for young people, but they're really for all
Here's a New Year's resolution that's easy to keep, good for your health and beneficial for your relationships. And it won't cost you a penny. Sound too good to be true? Read on.
In recent months, I've been working with a group of creative thinkers who are mining the meaning of a good life. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Bill Damon and Howard Gardner are renowned psychologists who've collaborated to create the Good Project, which explores the behaviors and mindsets that add up to good work, good play and good citizenship.
Together, with Lynn Barendsen, we've developed a simple set of questions for the New Year. They're catalysts for reflection rather than formulas for imitation. Their purpose is to get us thinking about our purpose, in both private and community life.
We originally developed these questions for young people, on the belief that the new generation doesn't get enough structured opportunities to explore meaning and values. But the truth is, it's not just millennials today who might lack purpose, feel uncertain about shared beliefs and goals or wish they could be part of something greater than themselves. It's people of all ages.
We Americans rarely get to make a truly mindful assessment of who we are, what's shaped us and why we hope to change. If we did that first, we'd probably be more capable of making wise resolutions and keeping them. We'd become more conscious of the web of relationship and mutual obligation that holds us together and that makes our freedom truly worth cherishing. And we might just end up being better humans.
So I invite you, whatever your stage of life, to explore these questions. Ask them of yourself. Talk with family and friends about them. Write and share your reflections. Feel free to adapt and revise the questions to suit your circumstances. And let us know on Twitter what the experience is like for you and those close to you.
If you make it your first resolution to consider these questions well, your other resolutions will almost certainly end up being more honest, more meaningful to you and more useful to others. Enjoy reflecting, and may your new year be happy -- and deeply good.
Who you are
1. Think of something (an activity, a job) to which you're really committed and that takes up a lot of your time. Why do you do it? Do you consider it time well spent? Why or why not? What would make you stop being involved?
2. Who or what do you consider your community? What do you do for the community? What would you expect the community to do it for you?
3. To whom or what do you feel responsible? What does that entail? What happens when you don't meet that responsibility?
4. Are you a good worker? A good citizen? A good person? How do you distinguish among them? Which is most important to you?
5. Who's influenced you, and how do you pass it on?
6. What individuals and institutions do you admire and why (current or past)?
7. What/whom don't you admire and why?
8. What and whom do you love?
9. What would it mean for you to be successful? How important is recognition, through money or esteem? What about unheralded acts or contributions?
10. What would it mean for you fail? Who or what will make that judgment for you and about you?
11. What kind of person do you want to be right now?
12. What should -- and shouldn't -- be written in your obituary?
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Public Service, Regulatory
By By Lee Benson | March 1, 2011
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The past two presidents of HAI, Roy Resavage and Matt Zuccaro, must be complimented for promoting a balanced approach to public aircraft operators. In the early 90's some of the folks in HAI were … less than gracious to public aircraft operators. It was during this time of "the troubles" as the Irish would call them, that a meeting attended by public aircraft operators and representatives of both the FAA and HAI focused on the issue of tracking "Public Aircraft" accidents. The public aircraft operator's position was that aircraft owned and operated, by a political subdivision of the U.S., should be tracked separately vs. those aircraft flown by a commercial company on contract to a government entity.
For the purposes of this article, let's call the first group "government public aircraft" and the second group "contracted public aircraft." The opinion expressed by the "government public aircraft" operators was that their safety record should stand on its own—good, bad or indifferent. HAI personnel attending this meeting were insistent that the two groups be combined into one. A cynic would suggest that HAI wanted to cook the books. Eliminating the high-risk missions inherent in "public aircraft" operations such as firefighting, geodesic survey and game counts, and that this action would enhance commercial operator's accident profile. HAI's argument prevailed and to this day, both sides of the public aircraft accidents are recorded together. Safety is a product of culture within each operation. "Government public" and "contracted public" aircraft involve two different cultures. Until these groups are separated in terms of accident statistics, effective action to mitigate casual factors for accidents within these groups is a pipe dream.
In 2006, one of the first International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) meetings was held in Carmel, Calif. In its effort to reduce accidents by 80 percent over a 10-year period, IHST recognized that it was imperative to start from a good statistical base. The shorthand version of IHST's course of accident mitigation is to isolate similar safety cultures and identify and correct the highest risk factors in that culture. The fellow who was assigned to do the statistical analysis of these figures did exactly what the "government public aircraft" operators had feared; he presented the data as collected and combined the two groups into one. When observers pointed out that this really involved two separate cultures, he noted that this data was, in fact, corrupt and there was no way to correct it. Furthermore, NTSB's findings concerning public aircraft accidents over the last 15 years have consistently complained that the data being used to compile accident rates is suspect. One NTSB quote indicates that the hours flown by public aircraft operators may be underrepresented by as much as 19 percent. This falls back onto FAA, which is responsible for tracking these numbers. If you think that's going well, read the December 2010 articles where FAA admits that it has lost track of the registration of 119,000 aircraft in the U.S. Not only does FAA need to separate the two distinct groups of public aircraft, it also needs to do a much better job of collecting the data necessary to evaluate accident trends.
On Oct. 12, 2010, USA Today published an article titled "NTSB finds lapses in smoke jumper crashes." In my opinion, this article is wrong from its title forward. There were no smoke jumpers involved in the accidents listed. The article attempted to point out deficits in U.S. Forest Service oversight of the Carson Helicopters crash of Aug. 5, 2008. Two of the accidents cited were wing separations on air tankers, and the reality is I don't think enhanced oversight by the USFS or the FAA would have foreseen these accidents. One of the accidents occurred in Afghanistan. I don't know how many trees there are in Afghanistan, looks like a lot of rocks to me. Using a war zone accident to criticize the USFS seems a bit of a stretch. In the article, Jim Hall, former NTSB chairman, stated that aircraft operated on behalf of the government "are orphans of the safety system." Really, notice the words "on behalf," the majority of accidents causing these problems fall into my definition above "contracted public aircraft." I would use an actual figure of merit to define "majority" in the sentence above, but guess what, those figures are not available, see paragraphs one and two above. Here is my take on this; Carson Helicopters is an FAA certificate holder under several different sections of the FARs to include operations, manufacturing and maintenance. Carson Helicopters' culture of safety is generated in that environment. The casual factors noted by NTSB were in place while the aircraft was under FAA jurisdiction. The weight calculation of the aircraft, the seats and harnesses installed in the aircraft, the fuel cell in the aircraft, the filters on the engines of the aircraft, the performance charts used by the pilots, the way the supplemental type certificates were worded—all of these were criticized by NTSB. Dear reader, does any of this sound to you like the USFS had any input on these issues? As we go forward to do a better job in safety, what we don't need is a hit piece by somebody trying to sell newspapers, or public officials making sweeping remarks that aren't focused on specific issues that can be identified and corrected.
A commercial helicopter operator exists to generate profit while providing a service to its clients. Government flight operations inherent reason for existence is to enhance the governance, safety—or both—of its constituents. For the purposes of this argument, I am defining risk as the risk imposed by actual in-flight operations, exclusive of financial and other real risks to the commercial company. Commercial operators should only accept the risk that is consistent with appropriate profit. The commercial operator should always seek out those contracts with the maximum profit for the least risk involved. But inherent in this statement is the realization that potential profit and risk are on a sliding scale and hopefully as contracted flight services go up in risk, the profit to the company improves. The government's regulatory agencies function to protect the public good. Since the general public doesn't have the knowledge base to assess the risk component of any given flight, they must rely on the government to set boundaries consistent with the public good. Let me state that the term "profit" as defined by the operator and the public good are two mutually exclusive terms. Profit is not in the FAA's dictionary and probably shouldn't be. We must realize even in strictly commercial operations, the federal regulations operate on a sliding scale between inherent risk and public good. Think of the nature of the regulations that govern scheduled airline service, on-demand charter operations, external load work and finally agricultural operations. Starting with the least risk-intensive, scheduled airlines and onto the most risk-intensive, agricultural flying, two elements are present; those individuals being subjected to the inherent risk of the operation are assumed to have a better understanding of risk as it grows, and the perceived gain to society is enhanced as the risk goes up. One hour of scheduled airline operations equals small risk and gain to the public good. One hour of agricultural flying has a much higher risk with the potential to feed many—much greater public good. "Government public aircraft" risk vs. gain assumptions should be driven by the enhancement of governance, public safety or both. If a government public aircraft is performing missions outside this scope, then in my opinion they have exceeded the intent of the law. The risk factor inherent to some "government public" mission profiles lay outside of the normal structure of the FARs and need to remain so. For example: swift water rescue as practiced in Southern California by multiple "government public aircraft" agencies involves hovering over rushing water in a cement channel with a rescuer retained on a 35-foot rope off of a non-certified rigging system. Propose that to the FAA and see what happens.
Finally, to clarify the scope of public aircraft operations, I suggest the following additions to Part 1 of the FARs: "Search and rescue is any flight operation by a public aircraft where a person is flown out of harm's way to an appropriate collection point or medical receiving facility. All flights conducted to enhance governance or public safety will be considered SAR during periods of declared emergency by any political subdivision of the U.S."


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Why I want to transfer her:
- I have to pug ALL THE TIME on alliance, and would rather to slip into groups with my friends instead rather than always rely on luck-of-the-draw in the LFG channel. I get lonely while playing her.
- I can't dedicate myself to a 2nd guild without sacrificing part of the 1st (hence I've kept her in Dreambound as a solo guild).
- I love playing feral cat and bear; melee is fun for me, and I much prefer playing a druid over my rogue.
- The new tauren forms aren't as bad as the old ones.
- When running chain heroics with my resto druid this weekend, I went into cat form on trash while letting rejuv/WG tick for heals. I need my feral fix.
- I've grown quite fond of Kae-bear's new form. The skunk look is pretty cute and is my favorite of all the new feral forms, both cat and bear.
- Potential price of the transfer may be too much.
- No more easy access to alliance AH (and cheaper prices compared to Horde), white kittens, and other alliance-purchased pets, which I've been using to get pets for my horde main and friends.
- My resto main gets the best feral gear and badges (over what feralKae would get as an alt). If I could tri-spec or quad-spec (beyond just dual-spec), this whole thing probably wouldn't be an issue, cuz I could then get my feral fix on Kaelynn and wouldn't have to deal with respecs, which themselves are a pain with all of the reglyphing required. Maybe Blizz will happily announce the additional of further spec-save configurations and all my worry will be for not?
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EDIT: it's been a while since I got a chance to sit down and just doodle in photoshop. I need to find more time for it, it's relaxing.


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Correct me if I'm wrong: you know you should write a blog post. After all, it's been a while since you last hit that publish button. Yet, somehow, without you realizing it, you spend hours on Twitter and Facebook "working," only to wonder later what happened…
You comment on other blogs, telling yourself you're "networking," never mind that none of those comments actually lead to anything.
You have a growing collection of books and courses promising to teach you all the secrets in the universe, but they have been labeled "to be read" indefinitely.
In the back of your mind, you know you can do better. Technically, you even know what to do.
But something inside you refuses to let you, and every day you struggle with whether or not you should just give up or find some other shortcut.
You know how I know this?
Because I'm just like you.
The realization that changed my (writing) life
Most bloggers/writers do this: they wait for inspiration to hit them.
They wait to feel like writing, and it's then that they write. The rest of the time, they find a bunch of excuses: not enough time, too much to do, too tired, to angry, too this, too that…
But about 1% of all bloggers/writers do this instead: they know that if they start punching those keys, sooner or later, the feeling will come.
Yes. This works both ways.
Fantastic, right?
Even when you don't feel like it, if you force yourself to start, and you keep doing it… you'll feel like it. You'll actually feel inspired, and you'll enjoy the process of writing just as much.
How to stop holding yourself back
Truth is, when you know your work is great, but feel you don't have the recognition you deserve, you're arrogant too.
You don't have to walk with your nose high to be arrogant. I mean, isn't it arrogant to think just because you've created something good, you deserve to be recognized?
This was a hard one for me, but eventually I realized doing good work is only the first step.
Less talented people will always get more recognition when they hustle harder to get their name out.
You can't rely on, nor should you expect, your readers to do your promotion. It's not their job to make sure you're seen.
Instead, adopt mindsets and systems to improve your output and expand your reach.
And stop doing silly things. Here are some of the biggest offenders:
1. Not taking your blog seriously
"I have to write for this other website." "I'll write when I'm a little less tired."
I tell myself these things all the time.
But if you want to be successful, you have to realize they're just excuses. They're reasonable, yes, but they're excuses nonetheless.
The reality is successful bloggers take their blog just as seriously as their day job. It's that important.
Yes, you have to eat and sleep, or you'll keel over dead, but you don't have to watch TV for hours every night, check your email every five minutes or get sucked into the social media vortex. So, stop screwing around with all that stuff. I'm serious.
You HAVE TO be the first person to respect your blog. If you don't, how can you expect others to respect it too?
This means spending long, sweaty hours at the anvil banging out headlines, refining your storytelling skills, and magnetizing your calls to action.
It means stalking your competition to near obsession, so you can predict their every move, and beat them at their own game.
Is it a lot of work? You bet your ass it is.
But it's the only way.
2. Thinking you can work without a schedule
There are two kinds of schedules:
The writing schedule is all about the creation process.
When your workload increases, saying you'll create "when you feel like it" is the same as saying "I want to never have time for anything please."
Instead, block out times for you to work on your different writing projects, and set deadlines. The point of a writing schedule is to create as much as possible in the time you allow yourself. You're won't always be satisfied, but the only way to polish an idea is to pull it from your brain and put it on the page, no matter how much it writhes, kicks, spits and swears at you.
Ideally, you want to get into the habit of writing a set amount of words every day.
Learn your rhythms. Edit when you're critical.
No doubt, you'll be walking through spider webs at first. But underneath it all you're training yourself to be a helluva good writer.
Just because you write every day doesn't mean you have to publish every day.
The whole point of the writing schedule is for you to create a volume of work while refining your skills.
Your publishing schedule curates the best work to your blog. Some blogs are only publishing only one or two extremely useful articles a month on their own blog.
When you take your writing seriously, and you put yourself on a schedule, you don't have any choice but to produce a large enough volume of work that'll grab people's attention.
Not everything has to make the final cut to your blog, but that doesn't mean it can't be used somewhere else. And if you commit to publishing on a schedule, both on and off your blog, people will notice.


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ARMONK - IBM did not get off to a good start in 2013, missing estimates for revenue and earnings per share, and Big Blue plans to lay off people in the second quarter to get back on track.
Most of the layoffs, called "workforce rebalancing" by Big Blue, will happen outside the United States, said IBM Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge in a conference call with investors and analysts Thursday. He added that the layoffs will be concentrated in the second quarter, helping financial results later in the year.
The first quarter, which ended March 31, began well but ended badly because the company did not close a number of deals, Loughridge said. The transactions that rolled over to the second quarter included more than $400 million in mainframe, software and intellectual property deals, he said.
"We should have closed on the rollover deals," Loughridge said, blaming IBM's own execution of the transactions.
He added that, of the more than $400 million in deals IBM had hoped to close, many were in the Europe and United States.
"It's hard to imagine we weren't affected by Easter," he said.
IBM's profit fell to $3 billion, down 1 percent from the first quarter of 2012. Revenue totaled $23.4 billion, down 5 percent, and earnings per share increased 3 percent to $2.70.
Analysts had estimated revenue of $24.69 billion and earnings per share of $3.05, according to Yahoo Finance.
Rumors about the possible sale of IBM's x86 server business came up on the conference call. Loughridge declined to comment.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday afternoon that IBM is in advanced discussions to sell that business to Lenovo Group.
Revenue from System z mainframe server products, which are made in Poughkeepsie, increased 7 percent from the year-ago period. Loughridge expects double-digit growth in System z in the second quarter.
Power Systems' revenue fell 32 percent compared to the same time period in 2012, according to an IBM press release.
Loughridge said IBM plans to go after a different segment of the market with Power, but the financial results from the change will not be immediately reflected in financial results.
Loughridge said Big Blue also plans to regain its position in its growth markets, which reported a decrease in revenue of 1 percent in the quarter.
Revenue in the United States and Canada was down 4 percent from the 2012 period. Loughridge noted that the company's U.S. federal business was down 13 percent, which dragged on the performance of the entire country as a whole.
IBM reports lower profit, layoffs on the way
ARMONK - IBM did not get off to a good start in 2013, missing estimates for revenue and earnings per share, and Big Blue plans to lay off people in the second quarter to get back on track.


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Hours after the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity in Hyderabad was inaugurated, Greenpeace activists along with actor and environmental activist, Amala Akkineni, unfurled a 60 foot banner from the balcony of the Charminar, emblazoned with the Indian Prime Minister's face that read -- 'Stop Coal Crimes -- Save Indian Forests'.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 141 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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Q: What do T.I., Andrew 300, Nelly, OneRepublic and Big K.R.I.T. have in common? A: B.o.B's "Strange Clouds" LP.
"I feel like a lot of people may not have seen everything that I can do or what I'm about or what's on my mind and what I talk about and do as much as they should have, I guess. But it's my job as an artist to bring that music to the people," said B.o.B.
B.o.B went on to say that the disc features the "song of 2010" with a "mega feature" from "somebody" who plain doesn't do features. Oh boy oh man oh man. We can't wait. Respect to hiphopdx.com for breaking this news.


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Professor of Mathematics: William Jack, LL.D. appointed 1879.
Assistants to the Professor of Mathematics: J M Dodds, M.A., Fellow of St Peter's College, Cambridge, and H C Robson, M.A.
Professor of Natural Philosophy: Sir William Thomson, LL.D., D.C.L. appointed 1846.
Assistant to the Natural Philosophy: Andrew Gray, M.A.
The Examiners. The Professors and, in addition for Mathematics, Thomas Muir, M.A. appointed 1880
This Professorship was founded by the charter of Nova Erectio, in 1577 ; and the Professor was confined to the department of Natural Philosophy in 1727. The Professor is elected by the University Court.
Professors from the year 1727.
1751. Robert Dick, M.D.
1757. John Anderson, M.A.
1796. James Brown, LL.D.
1803. W Meikleham, LL.D.
The Natural Philosophy Class meets daily at 9 a.m., and at 11 a.m. or 12 noon.
The first hour is chiefly spent in statements of Principles, description of Results of Observation, and Experimental Illustrations. The second hour is devoted to Mathematical Demonstrations and Exercises, and Examinations on the Elementary parts of the course, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 11 a.m.; and to a higher Mathematical Course on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 12 o'clock.
The Text-books used are-
A Treatise on Natural Philosophy, by Professors Sir William Thomson and P G Tait (Cambridge University Press); Elements of Natural Philosophy, by the same authors (Cambridge University Press) ; A Lecture on Navigation, by Professor Sir William Thomson (W Collins & Sons); Dynamics and Hydrostatics, by J T Bottomley (W Collins & Sons) ; Heat, and Elasticity, by Sir W Thomson, reprinted from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (A & C Black); Ganot, Experimental Physics, translated by Atkinson (Longmans & Co.) Electrical Measurements, by A Gray (Macmillan & Co.) Mathematical Tables, J T Bottomley (W Collins & Sons).
The more elementary of the treatises by Thomson and Tait, along with Dynamics and Hydrostatics by Bottomley, will be used for the work of all students of Natural Philosophy in the regular curriculum. The whole, or certain specified parts of the larger treatise will be prescribed in connection with voluntary examinations and exercises in the class, and for candidates for the degree of M.A. with honours. Students who desire to undertake these higher parts of the business of the class ought to be well prepared on all subjects of the Senior Mathematical Class.
The Laboratory in connection with the class is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for Experimental Exercises and Investigations under the direction of the Professor and his official Assistant, and the Demonstrator in Experimental Physics.
The main divisions of the course are-
(1.) Abstract Dynamics (including Elements of Physical Astronomy);
(2.) Properties of Matter;
(3.) Thermodynamics;
(4.) Illustration.
Illustration is conducted partly through examples and calculations; partly by experiment.
A programme of the subjects that will be taken up, as far as time permits, during the session 1883-84, will be published before the commencement of the session, and may be had on application at the Natural Philosophy Classroom.
Fee for the Natural Philosophy Class, £4 4 0
Fee for the Students of the Second Year, £3 3 0
Fee for the Physical Laboratory, £5 5 0
This Professorship, long suppressed for want of funds, was revived by an Act of Faculty in 1691. The Professor is appointed by the University Court.
Professors from the year 1691.
1691. George Sinclair, M.D.
1711. Robert Simson, M.D.
1761. James Williamson, D.D.
1796. James Millar, M.A.
1832. James Thomson, LL.D.
1849. Hugh Blackburn, M.A.
Lower Junior Class,
(Or FIRST YEAR'S COURSE.)
Subjects: Euclid and Algebra, both from the beginning. Three parallel subdivisions of the class meet daily (except on Saturdays), one from 9 to 10, one from 10 to 11, one from 12 to 1.
Upper Junior Class,
(Or SECOND YEAR'S COURSE), for Students who have attended the first year's course, or who have otherwise acquired a knowledge of Euclid, Books I., II., III., IV., and of Algebra as represented by the first twenty-two Chapters (Chaps. XIV., XV., XIX., excepted) of Todhunter's larger Text-book. Subjects: Euclid, Books V., VI., and XI., Higher Algebra and the elements of transversals and anharmonics, Elements of Trigonometry. Two parallel subdivisions of the Class meet daily (except on Saturdays), one from 9 to 10, one from 12 to 1.
Senior Class
(Or THIRD YEAR'S COURSE).
Subjects: Trigonometry, Geometrical and Analytical Conics, Differential and Elements of Integral Calculus. The Senior Class meets from 10 to 11 daily, except on Saturdays.
Upper Senior Class
Subjects: Integral Calculus, Spherical Trigonometry, Geometry of Three Dimensions, Differential Equations, Finite Differences. The Class meets at 11-12 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Attendance on the Mathematical Classes, for not less than two Winter Sessions, one of which must be on either the Upper Junior or the Senior Class, is required for the degree of M.A. "unless the candidate at the time of his entrance to the University shall satisfy the Professors in the Faculty of Arts, on examination, that he is qualified to attend the Senior Class," in which case, attendance on the Senior Class for one session is sufficient.
The Fee for each session is £3 3 0
The Fee for the Upper Senior Class is £2 2 0
No fee is charged for the Upper Senior to students who have completed their qualifying course of attendance for M.A., and who have attended the Senior Class. All the Mathematical Classes are free to students who have attended three complete sessions.
For the "Lorimer" and the "Muir" Bursaries in Mathematics, see under Bursaries.
N.B.- Attendance on the qualifying course of Natural Philosophy for the Degree of M.A. must be subsequent to the completion of the qualifying course of Mathematics. Two Sessions of the Lower Junior Class of Mathematics do not constitute two sessions of Mathematics for the purpose of graduation in Arts.
Here are some examination questions set at Glasgow University in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.


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"They'd call us gypsies, tramps, and thieves;
But every night all the men would come around;
And lay their money down.â€
– Cher
I learned about outsourcing and other business techniques in the 1970s, during my teenage years.
I worked at a dry cleaning business that had no dry cleaning equipment. It had two clothing racks, a counter and a cash register; nothing else. There was no drive-thru window and no parking lot.
The business was located in the roughest section of Newport, Ky., which was one of the most economically depressed cities in America.
My father said that "gypsies, tramps, and thieves†was an accurate description of the neighborhood.
The shop's location did not cater to an upscale clientele. Living conditions were bad and the crime rate was high.
I witnessed armed robberies, streetwalkers, numerous fist fights and a car jacking.
I watched a woman run over her soon-to-be-ex-husband with a car.
There was a diverse mixture of cultures and personalities in that neighborhood. None of them seem concerned about owning neatly pressed, dry-cleaned clothes. They bore no resemblance to the people who lived in the suburb that I lived in.
There was one factor that made the dry cleaners a smart business decision. In its back room there was a bookmaking operation and an ongoing card game.
The back room had far more traffic than the dry cleaners ever did.
I was the "manager†of the dry-cleaning section. Since I was the only employee, there was not a lot to manage. However, the experience at the dry cleaners was a better lesson in business than studying for an MBA.
I learned business techniques that were far ahead of their time:
Outsourcing. The dry cleaning business was the ultimate outsourcing operation. It seemed that two out of three people a week would wander in actually wanting their clothes dry cleaned. I would take their clothes to a real dry cleaner and have them cleaned. Since we charged a markup for the service, prices were outrageously high and we had few repeat customers.
We did the marketing and someone else did the work. It is a model that many businesses now follow.
Locating in a business-friendly location. In Joe Nocera's book, "A Piece of the Action,†he wrote about credit card companies locating in South Dakota because that state looked favorably upon the credit card business at a time when other states were heavily regulating it.
Although gambling and bookmaking was against the law, Newport was a favorable business environment for the gambling operation.
With far more serious crime taking place, enforcing gambling laws was not a high priority for the neighborhood's law enforcement community. The dry cleaners provided a legitimate business cover.
Long hours, low wages. I worked in the dry cleaners 72 hours a week during the summer and over 40 a week during the school year. I had no benefits, pension, or paid vacations, and they "forgot†to pay me overtime.
Many businesses use this "long hours, low wages, no benefits model†today.
Everyone involved in the dry cleaners is now dead. Their lifestyles as "gypsies, tramps, and thieves†cut into any chance they had to live to an old age.
One thing you can say about them is that they were good businessmen. None of them were well-educated, but every night when the men would come around, they had plenty of money to lay down.
Don McNay, who lives in Richmond, Ky., is an award-winning financial columnist for Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com.


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The pages of Zoobooks and its sister magazines excite the minds of pint-size animal lovers with facts and photographs of winged, scaly-skinned, and furry-faced creatures. As a guide for children aged 6–12 to the world's most fascinating animals, birds, reptiles, and insects, each issue of Zoobooks unfurls to 20 full-color pages of lifelike animal drawings, photographs of animals in their natural habitats, puzzles, and anatomy diagrams.
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Follow the Money
"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is."
– attributed to Mark Hanna, Gilded Age industrialist and politician
In the 1976 film All the President's Men reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are advised to "follow the money" in their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
You too can follow the money from contributors' checkbooks to politicians' campaign war chests.
Wisconsin's premier Campaign Finance Database lets you conduct your own investigation into campaigns for state office in Wisconsin using a variety of criteria. You can now do the same for contributions from PACs and other political committees.
WDC's candidate campaign finance profiles provide financial portraits of elected state officials' campaigns since 1998.
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A reminder that Gerard will be a presenter at this year's Golden Globe Awards. The awards will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 17 and will air live on NBC at 8:00pm EST.
Gerard enjoyed the pre-gifting suite for the Golden Globes on January 14. Check the gallery for more pictures!
We are in the home stretch of our charity campaign for Kids Kicking Cancer. To date, over 960 donations have been made totaling more than $37,000!! What an outstanding show of generosity!! Thank you so much for your support to this very worthy cause. There is still time to donate and enter your donation receipt for a chance to have dinner with Gerry. Donation receipts will be accepted by us until February 14, 2010. If you are mailing a check, it much be RECEIVED before February 14, so get it in the mail early. We have already chosen 12 recipients for the gifts being offered. All recipients have been emailed, but you can check the entry page for the names of the lucky fans.
While the above campaign is our primary charity focus at the moment, we would be remiss in not mentioning how much help is needed in the way of donations for the earthquake victims in Haiti. If you would like to help, we recommend any of the following charities:
- Habitat for Humanity (Effort focuses on housing needs)
- American Red Cross (Supports emergency relief and recovery efforts)
- UNICEF (100% of donations go to relief aid)
Gerard and other celebrities have joined with Entertainment Tonight and the American Red Cross to film Haitian relief effort public service announcements to air on ET. (News via Twitter)
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Don't forget! Gamer will be out on DVD on January 19! Pre-order your copy from Amazon.com and help support GerardButler.Net!
Publicity has begun for Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon, opening March 26, 2010. Gerard and Craig Ferguson have been hard at work tag teaming bloggers and reporters in preparation for the films release. Check the latest news and interviews here.


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NM is a unique hub of Egyptian young professionals, social change agents, and leaders in their fields. Board, staff, members, mentors, and of course social entrepreneurs, each is passionate about and committed to social change in Egypt
At NM, we leverage the ideas and power of social innovators to tackle Egypt's toughest social challenges. We believe Egypt's young professionals have what it takes to address our problems. At NM, we offer a platform for building social enterprises, along with a network of supportive, like-minded people, to help turn our dreams into reality.
Our work centers on the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise/start-ups. Over the past 8 years, NM has supported more than 40 social start-ups and enterprises from a wide range of fields. Our currently incubated social start-ups impact over 50,000 beneficiaries annually
At Nahdet el Mahrousa, our extended network consists of Egyptians who are passionate about social entrepreneurship and committed to building Egypt together and from within. NM and our social enterprises are always looking for individuals and organizations to join our movement. Here are a few ways you can get involved:
Since its inception, NM has been open platform for innovators, social entrepreneurs, and the development community. These individuals gather to further their mission, meet like-minded people, learn about current issues, transform perceived challenges into opportunities, and find meaningful ways to contribute to Egypt's development.
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Classic Baked Acorn Squash Recipe
Healthy and delicious recipes from Serious Eats
Sometimes, on blustery fall nights, I can't help but crave the wholesome, warm taste of roasted butternut squash. So I buy one. Then I bring it home, try to cut it up, lose two appendages, and hand it over to my boyfriend before I die of blood loss on our kitchen floor.
Television chefs make it look so easy. They slice, cube, and skin butternuts with little strain, whereas I, possessing the muscle tone of a fetal Woody Allen, need a (freakin') pickaxe to make the smallest dent. It's times like those, when I lose a fight to a vegetable, that I turn to its fellow produce, the acorn squash.
Sweet, inexpensive, full of fiber, and (I find) infinitely easier to rend in two, acorn squash is a solid substitute for denser dinnertime starches. It's versatility is a plus, as well, since it's easily stuffed, puréed, made into soup, or my favorite - roasted, with a little bit of brown sugar. It's an easy preparation, but the rewards are pretty sweet. This version, which adds a smidge of maple syrup and butter, comes from a blog called Simply Recipes.
Ultimately, I'll never abandon butternut squash. It's too healthy, and too completely delicious. Still, for nights I don't have time for a hospital visit, the acorn variety is my squash of choice.
- Yield:2 to 4
- 1 acorn squash
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup
- Dash of salt
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Using a strong chef's knife, and perhaps a rubber mallet to help, cut the acorn squash in half, lengthwise, from stem to end. Use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and stringy stuff in the center of each half. Score the insides of each half several times with a sharp knife. Place each half in a baking pan, cut side up. Add about a 1/4-inch of water to the bottom of the baking pan so that the skins don't burn and the squash doesn't get dried out.
Coat the inside of each half with 1/2 tablespoon of butter. Add a dash of salt if you are using unsalted butter. Add a Tbsp of brown sugar to the cavity of each half. Dribble on a teaspoon of maple syrup to each half.
Bake in the oven for 60 to 75 minutes, until the squash is very soft and the tops are browned. Do not undercook. When finished, remove from oven and let cool a little before serving. Spoon any buttery sugar sauce that has not already been absorbed by the squash over the exposed areas.


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Wealthy Parents Keep Trying to Starve Public School Districts
The wealthier portion of Baton Rouge, Louisiana wants to spin itself off into its own little school district, leaving the poorer portion of the city with far less revenue for schools. This is, sadly, a trend that shows no sign of abating.
Bloomberg today reports on the Baton Rouge group—hilariously named "Local Schools For Local Children"—that's pushing a plan to split off the more affluent east side of town from the poorer parts of the community, for school funding purposes. The estimated economic impact:
Louisiana, however, scored worst in the nation [on funding disparities between school districts]. A December report by three LSU economics professors found that breaking up the East Baton Rouge Parish school system would depress total per-pupil spending to $8,870 from $9,635. It would rise to $11,686 in the breakaway district.
Eighty percent of the current district's students are black, and 82 percent poor enough to qualify for free or reduced school meals.
The idea of wealthy communities splitting off into their own school districts is not a new one. Its benefits for the kids in the wealthy districts are obvious. While it's tempting to dismiss the wealthier parents as selfish—and I do, to be clear—these actions point to a larger problem with the way we fund schools. Any system that draws public school funding from local taxes encourages exactly this sort of self-serving action. And these economic secessions are, in a way, even worse than rich families who opt out entirely and send their kids to private schools—because those rich families still pay taxes that support public schools for the entire community. If a whole wealthy community walls itself off, though, the poorer people of a city (who need good public schools more than anyone) will suffer.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just fund school districts federally, according to a rational formula based on need, rather than on how rich the parents are in the surrounding neighborhoods? Also abolish private schools. When everyone is in the sinking ship together, the holes get fixed much faster.


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I get really, really excited whenever something new comes out from Sonos and even more excited when our buyer asks me if I want to take one of their products for a spin before it's available for public sale. In this case, the product I got to try was the Sonos wireless Sub.
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The Sonos Sub has a unique, circular cabinet that houses two force-canceling speakers — positioned to give loud, clear bass. I knew the Sonos Sub was sturdy and well-built before I had it out of the shipping box. It weighs 35 pounds! The sub is pretty compact and its shiny black lacquer finish goes nicely with the other products that Sonos offers. [Shop our full line of Sonos products.]
I set up the Sonos Sub in my living room with two Play:5 players that I was using as a stereo pair (one as left speaker and one as right speaker). Setup was very simple. Once I updated the Sonos software on my iPhone®, I was walked through an easy-to-navigate menu on how to add the Sub to my existing system. And, just like other Sonos players, all I had to do was push a button to get the Sub up and running.
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Before adding the Sub, I thought my Sonos system sounded great — and I prefer it to most other music players out there. But adding the Sub gave a whole new dimension to every song I play. In the acoustic tracks, the bottom end really filled out and I heard more depth in bass guitar and drum notes. In songs with a deeper, more-pounding bass track, the Sub really took off.
I even tried turning the Sub off mid-song to see if I could hear a difference. I could and I lasted roughly five seconds before I turned the Sub back on. It made such an improvement in the overall dynamics of my music that I didn't want to go back to pre-Sub listening.
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Washington (CNN) - The bitter Democrat-versus-Democrat race to become Florida's next senator on Tuesday saw a new salvo, with one candidate slamming his opponent as a "carpetbagger" who is trying "to buy Florida's senate seat."
Rep. Kendrick Meek's campaign has also said that Jeff Greene has lived in Florida for such a short time that he would be ineligible to run for other key statewide offices.
Meek's campaign made the charges in a campaign statement released Tuesday. Meek and Greene are locked in a battle for the Democratic senate nomination that will be decided in a late August primary.
The winner will vie for Florida's senate seat in a three-way race against Gov. Charlie Crist, who abandoned the Republican Party for an independent bid, and Republican Marco Rubio, the former Florida House Speaker.
The statement from Meeks' campaign references a website that, it says, "Confirms that Greene didn't live here long enough to run for any statewide office."
"…Jeff Greene decided to run for political office in Florida after only living here for two years," the statement says, adding that Greene "asks middle class Floridians to trust him, but why would they?"
Meeks' campaign goes on to slam the billionaire Greene, a real estate investor, as a "California carpetbagger" who amassed his fortune at the expense of middle class families.
The statement claims that Greene, "is spending millions of his ill-gotten gains to buy Florida's senate seat."
Those claims are "ridiculous," Greene campaign spokesman Paul Blank told CNN.
Related: Greene defends investments
Blank said that Greene moved to Florida 40 years ago with his family.
"He got his first driver's license on [well-known Florida highway] Military Trail, in Southern Florida, when Kendrick Meek was probably still in kindergarten," Blank said, referring to the year 1970.
Blank explained that Greene moved out of the state, for school and for his career, for several decades but returned in February 2008 with his family. Blank said that Greene got his most current driver's license the next month.
"He has deep roots in Florida," Blank said.
Regarding Meeks' charge that Greene amassed his fortune on the backs of middle class voters, Blank called it "utterly false."
"Nothing Jeff Greene did... in any way, caused the housing crisis," Blank said.
Meeks' campaign correctly states that Greene would not qualify to run for other key statewide offices in Florida.
According to the Florida Division of Elections, a candidate for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general is required to be a state resident for the preceding seven years. Candidates for Florida's legislature must be a resident at least two years.
The U.S. Constitution provides eligibility requirements for entry to the Senate, stating that candidates should be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least nine years and a resident of the state when elected.
Seizing on that, Blank said of Greene, "He is eligible to run for Senate. And he's giving voters a clear choice."
"Kendrick Meek should worry more about defending his record of failure than attacking Jeff Greene," he added.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll Greene shows Greene and Meek in a virtual dead heat for the Democratic nomination. Meek gets 29-percent and Greene gets 27-percent with a third candidate garnering 3-percent in the poll conducted June 2 – 8 that had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5-percent.
How pathetic has the Democrat Party become over the years.
These people aren't fit to bag your groceries, much less impose laws to make you more dependent upon them for your livelihood.
Look out another angry politian .... i hope he dont slap some one like his north carolina rep did to those young boys....
perhaps he is not an uncle Tom and a career politician perhaps he knows the pain of the everyday citizen and perhaps he will do a better job than any of the caree politicians perhaps this is God's plan Mr. Green has every right to run get elected and serve as any one else at least he didn't BUY his election as most other business mogels and well known corrupt people have done for decades Three cheers for Mr. Green I hope he goes all the way its time you you bigmouth corrupt criminals to go to jail so put a sock it your mouth and let god's will be done if he wins he is the right man that is unless you corrupt b@@@@@@@ decide to play one of your usual undercover tricks You might stop his serving but in the end you will pay for your sins. Don't let politics steal your soul.
Jeff Greene is a good & decent guy. Meek needs to stop slamming Greene. I'll vote for Greene and so will a heck of a lot of my friends.
Greene is a carpet bagger! No doubt! So was Hilliary Cilnton and she was elected to the Senate from NY! All I'm hearing from Meek is Greene this and Greene that. Doesn't Meek have ny issues to run on?
Another proof point as to how racist the democratic party really is.
Is Jeff any relation to Alvin Greene in South Carolina?
Another whiny liberal who just can't cope with the idea that people might prefer someone else. Dang, these career hack politicians ought to just pack it up and go away.
Neither Greene nor Meek will win. Both are not well known and most Democrats, including myself plan to vote for Charlie Christ instead. Anyone but Rubio is the answer.
Phoenix86 go attend one of your Tea Klux Klan rallies where they have witch doctor voodoo signs about Obama going back to Africa, then get back to me.
No Billionaires should be allowed to purchase their own positions in governments. Whether it's Meg Whitman, Jeff Greene or Bloombergy regardless of party affiliation.
This is better than any novel you could read....what a bunch of Dopes Baring any illegal actions on the part of Greene he is the candidate. The Dems are famous for changing the rules or contesting results. Losers all.
So is it worse to be a new resident of FL or to have ridden your mother's name and connections to the US Congress? Having had Kendrick Meek as my elected representative in the past, I'd rather have a "carpetbagger."
Mr. Meek graduated from FL A&M and within 5 years was elevated to the rank of Captain in the FHP assigned to protecting a FL pol. He then did short stints in FL house and senate before he "inherited" his mother's seat in Congress, running unopposed in a heavily Dem. district.
Quite the self-made man!
I'm no fan of Mr. Greene either-a self-made man perhaps, but hardly what one looks for in a Senator. Is it any wonder that Dems. (like me) are not optimistic about this race? The in FL, the scum rises...


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Joe Fabiani's 1987 Porsche 930 Flachbau
There were a few ways you knew you had made it in the '80s. You'd jet to Europe on a supersonic passenger airplane. You had your stock portfolio anchored in blue-chip hairspray manufacturers. Or maybe you made telephone calls from your car using a gigantic electronic brick known as a "cellular."
Or, if you really were a badass, your car was this: a Porsche 930 with the factory-installed Flachbau (Slantnose) option, which completely reinvented the standard wide-eyed 911 front end with one derived from the menacing, ground-scraping, belouvered 935 racecar that dominated its class racing venues from 1976 to 1981.
By most accounts, in those days (and some would argue even to the modern day) the 911 Turbo "Slant" (or Slope) was-strictly using a technical term-"The Shit." The Flachbau option was an expensive one because it entailed a complete re-fabrication of the car's front quarter sections by hand. The option could theoretically be applied to lesser non-Turbo 911s, but since the modification was so costly-cars equipped in this fashion could supposedly command price premiums of more than 50 percent over the standard cost-most customers would opt for the top-tier turbocharged model as their starting point. Although shadetree face conversions were rampant both during and after the 935's competitive tenure, few factory-sanctioned Flachbau conversions were built and these cars command a significant premium even today.
This one is owned and operated by Fabspeed Motorsports in Ambler, Pa., East Coast high-performance tuning house with a penchant for hardware born out of Zuffenhausen. Founder and president Joe Fabiani has been an active participant in PCA driver education and club racing for the last two decades. He acquired this car about three years ago and the Fabspeed crew has been slowly and carefully restoring it since that time, turning it back to showroom-floor spec along with a raft of well-placed performance modifications.
Engine work began with engine disassembly from the heads inward, cracking open the crankcase, and commencing with removal and inspection of all internals. The innards were then reassembled with new rod bolts and bearings. This done, the flat six was buttoned back up with new piston rings and each end capped off with reconditioned heads. Additionally, all external metal was carefully detailed to give it a factory-fresh, off-the-lot look a la 1987.
Fabspeed undertook the same process with the gearbox, first disassembling it and inspecting all internals, replacing any compromised components, sealing it back up, and detailing the exterior in similar fashion as the engine for a like-new finish.
With the basic power unit bulletproofed and screwed back together, external performance additions were considered. First on the list was preserving the vital oil supply, the temperature control system augmented with an additional oil cooler from Patrick Motorsports and new adapter lines to link it to the existing right rear OEM (930S) oil cooler. The heart of the performance matter is a K27S turbo, a popular upgrade for this engine. This turbine assembly was paired with Fabspeed's proprietary MAXFLO third-generation headers with F1 Indy car-style merge collectors and a cast turbo collector, along with a Fabspeed MAXFLO sport exhaust.
On the cool side, induction begins with a signature Fabspeed MAXFLO Cup-style intake system. The intake charge is chilled with a massive Kokeln intercooler unit and piped through a bored and port-matched intake manifold interfacing with 38mm billet intake blocks. Throughout the build, all turbo oil feed lines were replaced, as was the fuel distributor unit and all fuel lines. Last, to take advantage of the bigger flow coming through the punched-out intake tracts and K27S charger, the cylinder heads were endowed with a hotter set of 964 cams. All this is good for 397 hp and 320 lb-ft of torque as measured at the rear wheels on the Fabspeed dyno.
Three years is a long time to be building a car, but anyone who has tackled a ground-up restoration knows that time in such circles ceases to have the same meaning. This job was as much about cleaning and reconditioning as it was upgrading performance. According to Fabspeed general manager Jeremy D'Avella, every section of the car has been in pieces at one time or another.
For starters, while the mechanicals were out for work, the entire chassis was painstakingly pressure washed and detailed down to the undercarriage and wheel wells. Any section that needed it was repainted in original Guards Red. The suspension was removed and its components similarly detailed, and then added back in with upgraded hollow torsion bars, Bilstein HD Sport dampers, and a Rennline front strut brace.
Likewise, the factory brake assemblies were broken down to their basest elements, down to the caliper internals themselves, any worn or tired-looking hardware replaced, then reassembled and bolted back up to the axles. HRE 590R three-piece forged alloy wheels are bolted over these, one of the only non-factory performance upgrades added to the exterior.
The interior remains largely factory-spec since it was in pretty good shape, aside from a short-throw assembly for the four-speed shifter and a 934 boost gauge installed where the factory clock used to be. There's also an Alpine head unit embedded in the center dash (supported by an Alpine amp in the boot and component speakers throughout the cabin). A new set of 930S floormats from Performance Products adorns the footwells.
The question remains: Is this the ultimate 911? Compared to the modern 997, examples of which roll through the Fabspeed shop on an almost weekly basis, D'Avella simply says, "It's just different. A 997 Turbo could take this car off the line, but once the boost comes, it's like 'hold on.'"
Not to mention a lighter, purer chassis and a lot more road feel: "You have no electronics taking everything away from you, no PASM or PSM."
At the time of this writing it is the dead of winter in eastern Pennsylvania. During the cold months, the Slant lives in a quiet corner of the Fabspeed garage, slumbering beneath its tailor-fitted cover. But as reliably as the inevitable turn of seasons, when the weather gets warmer, the car will come back out. You can put money on it. Also on the fact that this Slant won't be housed under another roof any time soon.
Slantdance Origin of the flachbau Women can recycle fashion cues; however, in automotive circles it requires a delicate balance. The decade that was responsible for the purity of the Volkswagen GTI also delivered the cheese-grating Ferrari Testarossa. But perhaps no single vehicle from the '80s can sum up those times moreso than a 911 Slantnose. No one knows how many "custom" conversions have been done, using everything from a 1965 912 to an off-the-showroom-floor Turbo.
During the height of the conversion craze, there were dozens of small companies offering up front fenders of varying quality in steel, aluminum, and fiberglass. The headlights came from several sources-928, 924, Mazda RX-7-and some with no headlights at all but rectangular lenses in the front spoiler. The bling didn't end at the front. Massive rear flares and wider wheels, rear quarter panel ducting that was in most cases purely cosmetic, often silly-looking rear spoilers that were "wind-tunnel tested" via handheld hairdryer. Thousands were sold, many project cars were started and never finished, and many times the stock front fenders were eventually bolted back in place (mercifully). Conventional wisdom states that every end has a beginning.
Flashback to Weissach and Norbert Singer looking over the Group 5 rules issued for the upcoming season. The 1976 Porsche 935 didn't start out with a slanted nose, but the design was quickly adapted for one important reason: It was an advantage. And it was an immediate hit among enthusiasts. But a 935 for the street?
For many in the U.S., it took 1978 Road & Track cover, showing a Targa with Slantnose fenders and 928 headlights, to show what was possible. But the initial tip of the hat belongs to Rainer Buchmann and B+B Auto-Exclusiv Service located in Frankfurt. His firm and its ideas and execution were ahead of the industry curve but eventually fell victim to overexpansion and cheaper competition. Others were quick to note B+B's long list of clients and the landscape for tuner shops quickly began to change.
Where was Porsche during all this? The realization slowly came that there was good money to be made in the business of giving people packaged exclusivity, hence formation of the Sonderwunsch (Special Wish) Programm. By late 1983, Zuffenhausen workshops at Werk 1, under the direction of Elma Willrett, were busy fulfilling those desires, whether it was a Flachbau conversion for a Turbo, upgraded leather for a 928 interior, or a rear valance for a 944. Werk 1 also provided a series of power upgrades that added go to the show.
Porsche had the advantage of its modifications being factory-authorized to justify the extra costs associated with the program. This was a major selling point for those who ordered new cars and had them delivered directly to Werk 1. Actual production numbers of customer-ordered Slantnose options has never been fully confirmed-the given number is 262 cars completed, although former Werk 1 personnel have put the number closer to 400. Regardless, by current standards the factory Slantnose should be viewed as a limited production car, and one of the most rare. Just make sure you check the paperwork. -Kerry Morse
1987 Porsche
930 Flachbau
Longitudinal rear engine, rear-wheel drive
3.3-liter flat six, dohc, 24-valve. Reconditioned engine block and heads, K27S turbo upgrade, 964 cams, Fabspeed MAXFLO intake, 38mm billet intake blocks, ported intake manifold, Kokeln intercooler, auxiliary Patrick Motorsports oil cooler, Fabspeed MAXFLO headers and sport exhaust
Four-speed manual, short-shift kit, Powertech aluminum pressure plate and sport clutch
Hollow torsion bars, Bilstein dampers, Rennline front strut brace
Reconditioned OEM assemblies
Wheels & Tires
HRE 590R, 8.5x18 (f), 10.5x18 (r) Sumitomo HTRZ, 235/40 (f), 285/30 (r)
Color-matched front grille
Peak Power: 456 hp @ 6000 rpm
Peak Torque: 368 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm
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