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Alright, so here's the deal. Harlequins are coming and they're looking pretty damn fine for those that want to play all kinds of CC. While that is really admirable, it doesn't really work in an edition like this one where shooting is king on the battlefield. When they first spoiled the Solitaire, the huge nerd in me got super excited because the idea of Eldar in melee makes me happy. Unfortunately, this went away big time when I looked at the stats and saw that there was no protective bonuses outside of the 3++ invul and a prayer for a bad shooting round.
Here's where things changed a little bit. Then, I saw the formation that allows you to take a Solitaire, Deathjester and Shadowseer and all of them gain Stealth, Shrouded and a special rule that says they have to be by themselves. This suddenly makes them a lot more playable, but at the same time, you have to ask yourself exactly what these three characters offer your existing Dark Eldar? The first thing you will notice is that a package of all 3 is not cheap, not by a long shot. The Solitaire himself is 145 points and if you upgrade the Shadowseer, you're taking even more points on him. Then you consider where the Shadowseer is going to be if he can't join any units, or what will he be doing outside of DSing near the enemy and hopefully trigger some leadership shenanigans coupled with Armor of Misery. He sure won't be taking the psyker powers that targets himself and the squad he's with because he's by himself.
Is that worth the points investment? The Solitaire by himself might be worth the 145 points you spend on him if he comes with Stealth and Shrouded but that's stretching it too. At the end of the day, he's still a T3 3W model with a 3++ save. A good round of bolters should be enough to drop him, even if he's rolling 2+ to save on covers, much less if you're not taking this special formation. The Deathjester is kind of comical because he can just hide back in a ruins and sit on his 2+ cover save, but a quick burst from an enemy Wave Serpent and he's dead before he can do anything. This is just funny to me because a lot of people are super duper pumped about this release. I know that it has to be the excitement that GW are willing to do something so niche, but it bothers me because people are not really thinking about gameplay applications here. To be psyched about the Shadowseer and what he can potentially offer to the table with his psyker powers is one thing, but to realize them on the battlefield is another.
What kind of footslogging lists do you plan on running to take advantage of the Shadowseer? I know that none of these cool looking models will find its way into my DE list because frankly, it only weighs it down to take them. Speaking which, I'm not even sure if DE can take them so this entire post might be moot, but seeing how one of the WD's mentioned "Eldar United", I'm assuming that these Harlequins will be available to supplement both armies. No matter what, you probably won't see any Harlequins in my list. Crazy space clowns are super cool in the fluff, but from a competitive mindset, they leave much to be desired for.
For those of you guys curious about the Holo-fields being different in the Harlequin Codex vs. the Eldar one, expect a errata coming soon. I don't believe GW will let two of the same special rule go with different meanings for long. Yes, this means that Wave Serpent spam will take a nerf. Good, it's been a long time coming.


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Narendra Modi arrives in Ufa for BRICS and SCO summits in July, 2015.BRICS2015.ru
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed for Moscow Wednesday for the annual bilateral summit of the strategic partners, hoping to energise bilateral relations and persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country continues to be an important strategic partner.
To help these efforts, Modi has armed himself with an expensive wish list, which in these difficult economic times for Russia – sanctions and depressed oil prices –will be music to the ears of the Kremlin leaders.
Topping the shopping list, reflecting the importance of defence ties, will be the nearly seven billion dollars allotted for acquisition of military equipment. The most important among these will be the S-400 "Triumph" air defence system (this system permits interdiction of hostile missiles and aircraft). Reports say that India is looking for five units. The negotiations about this acquisition, according to Russian press reports, are going to be "not easy". Primarily, because India finds the asking price too high, writes Sergei Strokan in the Kommersant newspaper. "Finally everything will depend on the talks between the two leaders," a source told Kommersant. If successful, India will be the second country after China to buy the S-400 system.
In addition to this India and Russia will discuss the purchase of 3 frigates, 2 diesel submarines, 48 military transport helicopters, and about 150 armoured vehicles. The two sides will also discuss the modernisation of the IL 76 and IL 78 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force. The two sides will also discuss the acquisition of about 150 armoured vehicles.
India accounted for 28% of Russian military equipment exports in 2014. This amounted to 4.7 billion dollars, according to Kommersant.
The two sides appear to have hit a speed bump over the collaboration on and the leasing of a "Yasen" class nuclear-powered submarine. This is Russia's latest top-of-the-line submarine. Russia, however, appears reluctant to share this technology with India, partly because there is scepticism about India's ability to absorb the new levels of technology in this submarine. Instead, the Russians are hoping that the talks about the lease of a second 'Shuchka' (translated as "Pike" and not "Akula" which means "Shark") nuclear-powered submarine come to fruition.
This submarine, developed as Project 971, is similar to the Chakra II, which is currently on lease with the Indian Navy. However, the submarine will be substantially modernised in accordance with Indian requirements, according to Indian press reports. Another hitch is the apparent hiccup with the 5th generation fighter project. India was to be joint developer, but now that appears uncertain. The discussions between Modi and Putin are likely to bring some clarity on this issue.
The second important item on the list is cooperation in civilian nuclear energy. It is widely expected that India will offer Russia a new site for construction of a nuclear power plant. The site is likely to be in Andhra Pradesh and will be home to six reactors, according to sources. Also, it is expected that an agreement for two more reactors in Kudankulam will be signed during the visit, bringing the total number of Russian built reactors in India to twelve.
The expected military and nuclear energy deals underscore the importance cooperation in these spheres has acquired in maintaining the strategic nature of Indo-Russian ties. But Prime Minister Modi wants to leverage these strengths to address the primary area of weakness in bilateral ties – the economic relationship.
The project to construct 200-odd Kamov helicopters in India in collaboration with Indian public and private sector companies highlights this approach. Reports say that Anil Ambani's Reliance Group is likely to be the Indian private sector partner in this project. If the inter-governmental agreement is signed, this project will go a long way in bolstering the "Make in India" programme. Similar efforts are being made in shipbuilding.
Aiming to improve economic ties, Modi is taking a very high-powered Indian business delegation. Several leading private industrialists –Anil Ambani, Adi Godrej, Sudhir Mehta, Baba Kalyani, Ravi Ruia and others - are among the delegation, which also includes leading public sector organisations – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Indianoil, Oil India, ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Canara Bank, etc.
Bilateral trade in 2014 was less that 10 billion dollars and estimates for the first six months of 2015 are about one third of that figure. This is abysmally low considering the potential and is not commensurate with the level of political and strategic ties. There are several areas in which potential synergies exist – energy, pharmaceuticals, agro-industries, and infrastructure development. Some progress exists, but more needs to be done. To actualise the potential the two sides are considering a multi-billion dollar investment fund.
In the modern age, with globalisation processes dominating it will be difficult to sustain a long-term strategic partnership without a solid economic foundation." says a former Indian diplomat. Therefore, Russia's sensitivity to India's development challenges will go a long way in nurturing bilateral ties.
However, the visit will be not only about deals worth large sums of money. The two sides will also exchange views on several important developments in the world as well as discuss cooperation in multilateral forums. India and Russia are members of the UN and related bodies, such as G-20, BRICS, and SCO to name a few.
Among issues to be discussed, high on the agenda will be the question of tackling terrorism. Reports speak of a comprehensive counter-terrorism agreement being signed during the visit. There already exist mechanisms for intelligence sharing and these are highly valued by both sides. These discussions acquire additional salience in the light of developments in Syria and Afghanistan.
The two sides will exchange views on the developments in Syria.However, Afghanistan will occupy the prime space in discussions on regional matters, particularly, since Modi is expected to visit Kabul after Moscow.
Also, India will be keen to hear Russia's views on its improving ties with Pakistan. There appears to be a view among Russian officials that with the proposed sale of some helicopters to Pakistan, Moscow has acquired some levers of influence in Islamabad.
"Pakistan continues to run circles around countries like USA and China. Russia will be easy play. Therefore it is important that India disabuse them (Russia) of this view (that helicopter deal gives significant leverage) and stop them from falling into this trap," says an Indian security analyst.
A significant way to measure the levels of trust between India and Russia would be to see if the two sides have a frank discussion about their relations with China. This is necessary in order to establish if the Russia-India-China (RIC) forum could become a significant factor in influencing the evolving new order in Asia and the world.
Similarly, the Russians would like clarity about India's growing ties with the United States. In fact, some of Russia's hesitation in sharing some sensitive technologies with India may be because of the talks India is conducting with some Western countries for similar technologies.
Another area that holds rich potential is collaboration in science and technology. Cooperation in Outer Space and nanotechnologies are some of the directions for future cooperation. Last, but not least, there is a need to encourage academic interactions and people-to-people contacts.
Therefore, Modi has a wide range of issues to discuss in Moscow – over an informal, private dinner with Putin as well as during formal talks. If Modi succeeds in convincing Putin about India's desire for a strategic partnership with Russia, he may indeed return with a "Triumph".
The writer is a Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation.
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The art of playing football is entirely different in Italy when compared to other countries; it is stylish and cunning at the same time and these art forms in the game are known as Fantasia and Furbizia; the two ingredients of Italian football that make it exquisite.
Inter 0-0 Juventus: Derby d'Italia Ends Goalless After A Decade..
Both teams missed chances as The Nerazzurri and the Bianconeri played out a goalless draw after over eleven years in the Derby'd Italia. The match was expected to be a heated affair following the new wiretap evidence in the second Calciopoli trial but it did not live up to expectations.
World Cup '10-Day 12: A Day of Dramatic Qualifications & Exits
Day 12 saw a merciful end to a miserable French campaign at the hands of the host, who were also knocked out of the tournament. Nigeria, Africa's last hope of a team in the Round of 16, were denied entry to the next stage by a resolute Korean fightback, while Messi and co. proved to be a handful for the Greeks. Read more to see a summary of the day's highlights.
World Cup'10 – Day 10: Reviewing The Diving Day Actions
The Hard Tackle's Dhawal Verma reviews back the action from Day-10 that saw Paraguay move top of Group F with a convincing 2-0 win over Slovakia, New Zealand faught bravely to snatch a point from the Champions, while Brazil rolled all over Ivory Coast in real Samba style.
World Cup'10 – Day 7: Highlights Of The Day
While Argentina put on a magical show and Mexico left France's hopes hanging by a thin rope, Greece and Nigeria played out a thrilling encounter. TheHardTackle's Dhawal Verma captures the highlights of the day...
World Cup'10 – Day 2: REVIEW
With early goal bonanza featuring in all the three matches, Day-2 of the tournament kicked off with an entertaining match between Asian giant South Korea and former EURO Champion Greece; which was followed by a dominant Argentinian win over Nigeria. England payed the price for "Going Green" and had to settle for a stalemate against an impressive USA side. TheHardTackle's Dhawal Verma relives all the action from the second day of the tournament.
World Cup'10: TOP 10 Hard Tacklers To Be Wary Of..
The beautiful game has thrown up a crop of hardened football players whose aggression, energy, enthusiasm, pride and passion can improve or bring down the morale of their team. TheHardTackle's Dhawal Verma lists down the top ten footballers whose aggresive on-field antics could impact the fortunes of their respective sides in the World Cup.
Real Madrid 2009/10: Season Report & Player Ratings
Real Madrid have failed to lay their hands on the coveted trophy this season, and also faced an early exit from the Champions League quarter finals. TheHardTackle's Dhawal Verma gives his assessment how the players in the star-studded squad have performed in the last season.
El Clasico : A Battle That Transcends The Game Of Football
In a series of epic battles known as El Clasico, a colossal encounter between two Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, another enthralling battle between the two awaits football fans across the globe this Saturday. TheHardTackle's Dhawal Verma brings forward the history of the encounter and provides a sneak peek into El Clasico coming this weekend.


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Sometimes when you're really lucky everything just falls into place. For us our wavemusic night on Saturday 28th at the Stage Club Hamburg is such a fortunate occasion. It all started in January when it was still freezing cold in Hamburg. Tim and I had just started working seriously on our Le Chic Club Vol. 3 compilation. We aimed to keep a consistency with the clubbish and soulful Le Chic Club Vol. 2, but we also wanted to take it to the next level and to integrate more electronic and disco sounds.
Thus we called our DJ friend Jo Sinclair from London whom we had met a year earlier when we came for a visit to see the fabulous Soul band Sunlightsquare live in concert at the Jazz Café. For months we exchanged track listings back and forth, listening for hours, days, nights and weekends to almost the whole spectrum of today's club music, from Tech-House, to Elektro-Disco, etc. And slowly a new path opened up, one big mile stone in this process was the Pfingstchill at Buhne 16 where Tim and I got to spin records for more than 2,000 party people.
Finally, only a couple weeks ago Le Chic Club 3 was released – Jo, Tim and I are really proud of it. And guess who's coming to Hamburg for the release party? Not only Jo, but also the whole Sunlightsquare combo who's also featured on the compilation with their cover version of EWF "Let's Groove". They will rock the stage from 8.30pm on and afterwards we will spin some nice records.
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MP ready to raise issue of safe standing at Norwich City's Carrow Road in Parliament
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Norwich City Football Club's ambition to be at the vanguard of bringing safe standing to Carrow Road is to be raised in Parliament, after one of the city's MPs pledged to highlight the issue.
Norwich North MP Chloe Smith attended Saturday's Championship game with Middlesbrough on the invitation of club chairman Ed Balls and managing director Steve Stone.
Mr Stone has previously said he wants Norwich City to be at the forefront of change so supporters can once again stand at football grounds in the top two tiers of English football, so they invited the MP to discuss the issue.
Ms Smith said: "It was very helpful to hear the opinions and views of the club and to see for myself, through the control room, some of the challenges at the ground.
"I would still very much like to hear from fans who have an opinion, because at the end of the day, this is for the fans.
"But I am prepared to work with other Norfolk MPs to raise this issue in Parliament."
After the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans died, clubs in the top two tiers of English football had to make stadiums all-seater.
While it is not illegal to stand, people can be ejected from the ground if they refuse to sit. But Scottish club Celtic recently brought in safe standing, while it is commonplace in Germany.
The Football Supporters' Federation says allowing clubs to bring back standing can be achieved by amending the Football Spectators Act 1989, without the need for an Act of Parliament.
But, as of February last year, the government was "unconvinced by the case put forward for re-introducing standing accommodation at football grounds covered by the all-seater requirement."
Norwich City recently decided to move more than 50 season ticket holders, mainly children, out of block A of the Barclay End because of safety concerns.
The Safety Advisory Group, made up of representatives from the county council and emergency services, had received complaints about children standing on seats.
Carrow Road bosses said moving 31 children and about 20 parents or guardians was "the lesser of two evils"- compared to the alternative of being forced to reduce capacity at the stadium by 211.
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Management and Leadership Assessment at Blue Sky
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Using the attached document, please share your critical analysis on the bullet areas below. Your views, interpretation, and opinions on leadership, management, change, culture are fine; references are okay.
Subject: Management and Leadership Assessment
- Intro
- Situation/Issue
- Description of External Environment
- Description of Internal Environment
- Key Strategies
- Key Issues
- Recommendations
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Blue Sky is a software company founded by Max Blue, a talented software engineer who developed a business based on his competence in developing different types of software. He developed three different types of software - one focused on Automobile industry, another software was HR software developed for Best Dollar Retail Chain and a third type of software was Medicaid for health payment systems. Based on this software, the company has three major divisions with a customer-oriented organization structure as the three divisions were focused on the clients - Machine Tools software, HR Management software and Health payment systems software. The company's two divisions - HR Management Software and Health Payment software are decentralized with most functions operated through regional offices and only Machine Tools division is having centralized functions through operations only from Cleveland. The case is focused on a company which has been facing problems given high operating expenses, losing business to the low priced competitors located in India, stagnant culture due to autocratic leadership, decline of automobile industry in America, organization conflicts and politics within the organization and a company which is performing well but there are warning signals for future profitability. The company has appointed a Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing - Susy Hubres who has identified the responsibility of long term planning for the organization to make it sustainable as planning did not existed at all at Blue Sky due to founder's visualization of planning as a useless activity and focus more on implementation. The case analysis is aimed at finding solutions for long-term sustainability of the organization and fixes the major organizational issues.
Blue Sky's CEO Jim Willis is concerned about the following issues that need to be addressed for long-term sustainability of the organization:
- There is a decline in the American automobile business due to problems in the economic environment that can lead to loss of business of machine tools software.
- The company is facing a threat of losing its business to Indian companies who provide the labour at one fifth of the cost of Blue Sky and therefore, the clients are cutting on contract in favour of outsourcing to India.
- Another issue that has been identified is a structural issue wherein the company has hired high cost employees due to which the expenses have been increasing. The company has been in dilemma to downsize the organization by firing employees or not as the Vice President of Machine Tools, division is of the opposite views, as he believes that relationship management is important at the organization.
- The company also needs some innovations and needs to adjust to the new technologies.
- There is a passive culture within the organization due to autocratic leadership of Max Blue and therefore, there is a need to change the employee mindset as the employees are having a high resistance to change.
- There is a need of restructuring of the management as the Regional Directors are technically not well equipped.
Susy Hubres, Director of Planning and Marketing believes that there is a need of long term planning at the organization where there is a need for formal ten years long term strategic plan within the organization. The company does not have any such formal strategic plan and no plan was formulated under the leadership of founder Max Blue. But since Jim Willis has taken over as the new CEO, he agrees with Susy Hubris to develop a strategic plan. To find out new clients, Jim Willis is now working with Michael James and Susy Hubris to hire a management consultant who would help the organization in finding new clients for the existing products.
External Environment
Politico-Legal Environment
The company is facing a threat of lawsuits because of errors in coding in software and the allegations of offering of bribe to the Governor for getting state contracts. Stronger regulations are in place for use of software on different platforms such as iOS and consumer needs to be protected and therefore, the company needs to have patents for the originally developed software (Schmid, 2014: June 10).
Economic Environment
There have been problems in economic environment relating to recessionary pressures. In 2009, General Motors and Chrysler had to go into bankruptcy and the government was in the process of investing $80 billion into the industry but the situation has improved now and the car ...
Solution Summary
The solution provide guidance on doing a strategic management and leadership assessment of Blue Sky, a software company faced with the dilemma of controlling the costs, sustaining profitability in the long term and developing a strategic plan.


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Walgreens is working with FedEx to launch a nationwide next-day delivery service for prescription drugs as the top pharmacy chains gear up to compete with Amazon.
Amazon bought online pharmacy PillPack in June, but the deal has not closed yet, giving Walgreens and its rivals the chance to head off a possible disruption in the pharmacy space.
Even before the e-commerce giant announced the acquisition, pharmacies had anticipated that Amazon would branch out into delivering prescription drugs. Competitor CVS rolled out its own delivery service for prescription drugs in June, just days before the deal.
Walgreens already offers same-day delivery in select markets, and the pharmacy chain will continue to expand that program next year.
The delivery service is part of Walgreens Express, which also lets customers preview the cost of their prescriptions and prepay for those that are eligible. Patients can pay $4.99 to have their qualifying prescription drug delivered as early as the next day or choose to pick it up in stores, checking out in a special express line.
"Next-day prescription home delivery is another convenience-driver, alongside our industry-leading number of extended hours pharmacies and one of the most downloaded digital apps in the category, designed to put care in the hands of our patients," Richard Ashworth, president of operations for Walgreens, said in a statement.
Walgreens and FedEx have already partnered to let customers pick up and drop off packages at almost 8,000 pharmacies nationwide.
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|Monday, 24 September 2001
|Michael Elkin, Weizmann Institute
(1 + \epsilon, \beta)-spanner constructions for general graphs
|Monday, 01 October 2001
|Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC
What can we do in sublinear time?
|Tuesday, 2 October 2001
|Boaz Barak, Weizmann Institute
How to go beyond the black-box simulation barrier
|Monday, 08 October 2001
|Ehud Friedgut, The Hebrew University
What makes a graph be a Ramsey Graph?
An analysis via random graphs, a threshold phenomenon, and Szemeredi (hypergraph) regularity.
|Tuesday, 9 October 2001
|Michael Capalbo, IAS
Explicit unique-neighbor expanders
|Monday, 22 October 2001
|Amit Sahai, Princeton University
Zero Knowledge and Chosen-Ciphertext Security
|Tuesday, 23 October 2001
|Irit Dinur, IAS
On the hardness of approximating vertex cover
|Wednesday, 24 October 2001
|David Galvin, Rutgers University
Phase transition in the hard-core model on Z^d
|Monday, October 29 2001
|Andrew V. Goldberg, Reseaerch Fellow, InterTrust STAR Lab
A Practical Shortest Path Algorithm with Linear Average Time
|Tuesday, October 30 2001
|Irit Dinur, IAS
On the Hardness of Approximating Vertex Cover (Continued)
|Monday, November 5 2001
|Andrew Yao, Princeton University
How to Generate a Random Polygon?
|Tuesday, November 6 2001
|Oded Regev, IAS
The Unsplittable Flow Problem
|Monday, November 12 2001
|Amit Chakrabarti, Princeton University
Informational Complexity and the Direct Sum Problem for Simultaneous Message Complexity
|Tuesday, November 13 2001
|Clifford Smyth, IAS
Reimer's Inequality and Rudich's Conjecture
|Monday, November 19 2001
|Tim Gowers, Cambridge University and Princeton University
A Tower-type Lower Bound for Szemer\'edi's Regularity Lemma
|Tuesday, November 20 2001
|Andris Ambainis, IAS
Quantum Coin Flipping
|Monday, November 26 2001
|Sergei Konyagin, IAS
Estimates for Lp Norms of Exponential Sums
|Tuesday, November 27 2001
|Clifford Smyth, IAS
Reimer's Inequality and Rudich's Conjecture (Continued)
|Monday, December 3, 2001
|Amin Shokrollahi, Digital Fountain
Capacity Achieving Sequences
|Monday, December 10, 2001
| Nicolas Sourlas, ENS, Paris
On Statistical Mechanics and Cpacity Approaching Codes
|Tuesday, December 11, 2001
| Avi Wigderson, IAS
Arithmetic Complexity - A Survey
|Monday, December 17, 2001
| Ilan Newman, NEC,
Testing Monotonicity of Functions and Ruzsa-Szemer�di Type Graphs,
|Tuesday, December 18, 2001
| Avi Wigderson, IAS
Do Algorithms Need Randomness? A Survey
|Monday, January 14, 2002
| Vladlen Koltun, Tel Aviv University
Recent Developments Concerning Vertical Decompositions
|Tuesday, January 15, 2002
|Richard Beigel, IAS
Learning a Hidden Matching
|Monday, January 21, 2002
| Avner Magen, NEC Research Institute
Reduction of Dimensionality in Euclidean Space that Preserve Volumes, and Applications
|Monday, January 21, 2002
| Xiaodong Sun, Rutgers University
Space Lower Bounds for Distance Approximation in the Data Stream Model
|Tuesday, January 22, 2002
| Richard Beigel, IAS and Noga Alon, IAS
Learning a Hidden Matching
|Monday, January 28, 2002
| Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Property 'Tau' and its Applications in Combinatorics, Computational Group Theory and Geometry,
|Tuesday, January 29, 2002
| Benjamin Sudakov, IAS
Vertex List Coloring by Semirandom Method
|Monday, February 4, 2002
| Pavel Pudlak, Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
An Application of Hindman's Theorem to a Problem on Communication Complexity
|Tuesday, February 5, 2002
| Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS
Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics (A survey lecture)
|Thursday, February 7, 2002
| Mikkel Thorup, AT & T Research
Compact Oracles for Reachability and Approximate Distances in Planar Digraphs
|Monday, February 11, 2002
| Vojta Rodl, Emory University
Independent Deuber Sets in Graphs on the Natural Numbers
|Tuesday, February 12, 2002
| Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS
Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics, II (A survey lecture)
|Monday, February 18, 2002
| Benjamin Sudakov, Princeton University and IAS
Probabilistic Method and Ramsey Theory
|Monday, February 18, 2002
| Noga Alon, IAS
Addition, Codes and Subgraphs
|Tuesday, February 19, 2002
| Oded Regev, IAS
Quantum Computation and Lattice Problems
|Monday, February 25, 2002
| Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University
Turan Numbers of Bipartite Graphs and Related Questions
|Tuesday, February 26, 2002
| Andris Ambainis, IAS
Quantum Computing I (Survey Lecture)
|Monday, March 11, 2002
|Van H. Vu, University of California, SanDiego
Generating Random Regular Graphs
|Tuesday, March 12, 2002
|Andris Ambainis, IAS
Quantum Computing, Part II
|Monday, March 18, 2002
|Yi Zhao, Rutgers University
Graph Tiling Problems
|Tuesday, March 19, 2002
|Andris Ambainis, IAS
Quantum Computing, Part III
|Monday, March 25, 200
|Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo and Bell Labs
Transverslas in Graphs
|Tuesday, March 26, 2002
|Alexander Razborov, IAS
Proof Complexity, I (A Survey Lecture)
|Monday, April 1, 2002
|Kobbi Nissim, DIMACS and NEC
Communication Complexity and Secure Function Evaluation
|Tuesday, April 2, 2002
|Alexander Razborov, IAS
Proof Complexity, II (A Survey Lecture)
|Monday, April 8, 2002
|Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology
Quantum Interactive Proofs
|Tuesday, April 9, 2002
|Omer Reingold, IAS
Randomness Conductors (A Survey Lecture)
|Monday, April 15, 2002
|Tibor Szabo, ETH Zurich
Unique Sink Orientation of Cubes
|Tuesday, April 16, 2002
|Omer Reingold, IAS
Randomness Conductors (Continued)
|Monday, April 22, 2002
|William Gasarch, University of Maryland
Fault Diagnosis: What if the number of faulty processors is more than half?
|Tuesday, April 23, 2002
|Jozsef Balogh, IAS
Monotone Graph Properties
|Friday, April 26, 2002
|Simon Kasif, Boston University
Active Learning of Biological Systems
|Tuesday, April 30, 2002
|Michael Capalbo, IAS
Explicity Unique-Neighbor Expanders
|Monday, May 6, 2002
|Tal Malkin, AT & T Labs - Research
From Minicript to Cryptomania: Relationships among the Fundamental Cryptographic Primitives
|Tuesday, May 7, 2002
|Irit Dinur, Oded Regev and Clifford Smyth, IAS
The Hardness of 3-Uniform Hypergraph Coloring
|Monday, May 13, 2002
|Frederic Green, Clark University and CWI
The Correlation Between Parity and Quadratic Polynomials Mod 3
|Tuesday, May 14, 2002
|Alexander Razborov, IAS
Quantum Communication Complexity of Symmetric Predicates
|Monday, June 3, 2002
|Yaoyun Shi, California Institute of Technology
Polynomial Approximations and Quantum Lower Bounds
|Monday, June 10, 2002
|Amir Amihood, AT & T Research
Approximate Pattern Matching - The Hamming Distance Case


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Everyone's a critic – especially when it comes to mainstream media. There are many who enjoy complaining, whether about sensationalized murder trial coverage, the obsessive pursuit of a missing Malaysian plane, and even the companies that control what gets media coverage in the first place. However, a group of Canadian journalists and activists formed out of the Quebec 2012 student protests have recently decided to do more than just complain. With the goal of returning the power of the media to the people, the team is creating Ricochet, "a new media outlet that is independent, progressive, and grassroots."
An online-based publication, Ricochet currently has a teaser site up and running while its full website is still being built. The teaser introduces the startup's goals, claiming Ricochet will act as a "counterweight to corporate media." In a world where most mainstream media is controlled by an oligarchy of corporations, it will be difficult for a new distributor to act in opposition while still maintaining a wide readership. Editor Ethan Cox explained to The Daily via phone that Ricochet will accomplish this by practicing "public interest journalism," which is "all too often consumed by this false idea of impartiality: that journalism is to give equal time to both sides, no matter how ludicrous one side of the facts of a particular case are."
"In a lot of ways this is a new model of journalism and in a lot of other ways this is about [re]turning journalism to its roots," Cox added, elaborating that for Ricochet, journalism's roots are "the people." Ricochet will achieve this goal by giving its journalists the freedom to go wherever their stories might take them, to investigate, and, unlike most mainstream media, to challenge the status quo. "We're not going to be partisan, we're going to criticize the [New Democratic Party] and the Conservatives equally when we think they deserve it […] No punches will be pulled," said Cox.
Ricochet is hardly the first publication to make such optimistic and oppositional claims. Due to the wide readership the outlet seeks, it will be more difficult for it to stick to its mission statement than for the average grassroots paper. What sets Ricochet apart from most larger publications, however, is its independent funding. Over the past month, the publication's teaser website has been used to fundraise toward the target of $75,000, which will mostly be used to cover the high cost of investigative journalism (the startup has already commissioned two journalists, Michael Lee-Murphy in New England and Emma Pullman in British Columbia, to investigate the distribution of oil by rail and pipeline). Despite the fact that the fruits of this investigative journalism are just beginning to reach the public (sample content is gradually being released online), Ricochet's pre-launch marketing is proving to be a success – the team has received endorsements from big names such as social critic Noam Chomsky and author/activist Linda McQuaig, and recently announced that they have raised almost $83,000, well past their target.
Half of this funding has come from people living in Quebec, a province that Ricochet's teaser site singles out as one the publication's primary focuses. The outlet wants to "provide a bridge between Quebec and the rest of the country," according to Cox, "because the communication across that provincial border has been historically terrible." One only has to look as far back as the 2012 Quebec student protests, which saw a huge disconnect between English and French coverage, to see the truth in this statement. With a team of anglophones and francophones, as well as several former activists for Quebec student group Coalition large de l'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (CLASSE), Ricochet will attempt to build this bridge by publishing both a French and English edition. "People have this perception that Quebecers are all sovereignty and hate Canada, but the fact of the matter is, no one is more desperate for this model of interaction and exchange than people here in Quebec," said Cox.
Cox's belief that Quebec is "desperate" for a new media outlet will likely prove crucial to Ricochet's success as a startup. The challenge of gaining and maintaining a wide readership, one that many long-standing companies already struggle with, is even more pressing for an independent outlet. Ricochet seems to rely on the hope that people will see the good in paying journalists, and will in turn contribute to the startup every month. Cox explains that this method of crowd-sourced journalism will work because "we get the best quality of journalism when we pay journalists to do it, and the Canadians will respond and will reach into their own pockets to fund that bilingualism and that quality of journalism."
Whether or not the system of micro-payment crowd-funding will last through time is a different question. Ricochet faces a constantly updating world, where relevance often trumps loyalty. It is one thing to generate excitement with a progressive mission statement and superstar supporters, but it is quite another to garner a loyal and engaged readership. It remains to be seen whether new readers will pay for news they won't even be able to access on their phones. So far, however, the Ricochet team is determined and confident that people will choose to support them in building this new media platform.
While Ricochet portrays itself as a new, original, and essential publication, the concept is far from unique. However the project has been gaining enough attention that it may also gain some mainstream sway – provided that the people it serves like what it is serving. Ricochet has everything it needs to get up and running: the talent, the buzz, and the principles. But to succeed in filling the void currently left by the corporate mainstream media, it will also need the people's trust.


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The event was billed as a cutting-edge biohacking event, but it was tame compared with what goes on at the fringes of this community. Seven months earlier and about two hours away, in Tehachapi, a much more extreme clique of biohackers gathered to share the recent discoveries from their world at a gathering called GrindFest. These are the real transhumanists, the kind of people who implant magnets under their skin and embed microchips in their bodies to replace key cards. Asprey's ethos is not so dissimilar — he wants to…Read More
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Well: Exercising a Fat Dog (and Yourself)
Photo Credit Illustration by Ben Wiseman From the Well archives. The chubby, inert pet dog has become a familiar household sight in richer countries. And yet there lies a possible boon to the out-of-shape among us. A recent study suggests that being told one's pet is dangerously overweight might provide the impetus that gets an owner moving. It might seem that having a pet dog would result in considerable physical activity, and that's true, broadly speaking. A 2013 review of studies related to dog ownership concluded that as a group,…Read More
Scaling Back: A New Policy Disagreement Between Clinton and Sanders: Soda Taxes
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have a new issue to disagree about: the wisdom of a soda tax. A tax on sugary soft drinks, like the one proposed in Philadelphia and endorsed by Mrs. Clinton last week, divides the left. It can be seen as achieving an admirable public health goal of less sugar consumption or as a very regressive tax that falls more on the poor than the rich, since the poor tend to drink more soda. While not the biggest issue the two candidates have tussled over, it…Read More
Early Puberty in Girls Raises the Risk of Depression
When girls come in for their physical exams, one of the questions I routinely ask is "Do you get your period?" I try to ask before I expect the answer to be yes, so that if a girl doesn't seem to know about the changes of puberty that lie ahead, I can encourage her to talk about them with her mother, and offer to help answer questions. And I often point out that even those who have not yet embarked on puberty themselves are likely to have classmates who are…Read More
Well: War Wounds That Time Alone Can't Heal
No doubt in the course of your life, you did something, or failed to do something, that left you feeling guilty or ashamed. What if that something was in such violation of your moral compass that you felt unable to forgive yourself, undeserving of happiness, perhaps even unfit to live? That is the fate of an untold number of servicemen and women who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and other wars. Many participated in, witnessed or were unable to help in the face of atrocities, from failing to aid an…Read More
Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast
I don't eat breakfast. It's not that I dislike what's offered. Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I'd almost always choose eggs or waffles. It's just that I'm not hungry at 7:30 a.m., when I leave for work. In fact, I'm rarely hungry until about lunchtime. So, other than a morning cup of coffee, I don't eat much before noon. This habit has forced me to be subjected to more lectures on how I'm hurting myself, my diet, my work and my health than almost any other.…Read More
You'd Be Surprised at How Many Foods Contain Added Sugar
You may know there's added sugar in your Coke or cookies. But did you know that it's in your salad dressing, pasta sauce and bread? The Food and Drug Administration came out Friday with its new template for nutrition labels. One big change was the addition of a line for "added sugar," to be placed below a line for total sugar. The change is designed to distinguish between sugars that are naturally occurring in a food — like the milk sugar in a plain yogurt — and the sugars that…Read More
A Study on Fats That Doesn't Fit the Story Line
Of course, this is only one study. It involved only institutionalized patients. Only about a quarter of the participants followed the diet for more than a year. The diets don't necessarily look like what people really ate, then or now. But this is still a large, randomized controlled trial, and it's hard to imagine we wouldn't at least discuss it widely. Moreover, the researchers conducted a meta-analysis of all studies that looked at this question. Analyzed together, they still found that more people died on the linoleic-acid-rich diets, although the…Read More
Direct-to-Consumer Lab Tests, No Doctor Visit Required
Two years ago, Kristi Wood was tired and achy and could not think clearly, and she had no idea why. "I was in a fog and feeling awful," said Ms. Wood, 49, who lives in Seattle and is an owner of a hiking supply company. Ms. Wood had her blood tested by a consumer service called InsideTracker, which analyzes 30 hormones and biomarkers, such as vitamin levels, cholesterol and inflammation. After the service told Ms. Wood she had excessive levels of vitamin D, she cut back on a supplement she…Read More
Trial shows poliovirus may be effective in treating deadly brain cancer
Debbie Puffer, 61, has been a patient at Duke University since 2014 when doctors began treating her deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, with a most unlikely weapon: poliovirus. At first, she was skeptical. "I was just going to go home and bury my head in the sand and then I realized, no, no, I'm not supposed to do that," Puffer said. For the last four years, "60 Minutes" has charted the journey of doctors and patients-turned-medical pioneers. The poliovirus can attach to a protein on the surface of cancer cells. The…Read More


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Human Rights Watch Report Shows Little Progress in Iran
As the world watches Iran's ballistic missile program and attempts to put controls on the influence of Iran throughout the Middle East, human rights organization continue to voice concerns about the situation in Iran and the suppression that is becoming systematic. It starts with the frequent use of the death penalty.
Executions, especially for drug related offenses, continue at a high rate. On August 13, 2017, the Iranian parliament approved an amendment to their drug law that raises the bar for a mandatory death sentence for drug-related offenses. The law went into effect on November 14 and by November 21, the #Prosecutor for Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, noted that 3,300 individuals convicted of drug offenses have filed for appeals.
Judges have the discretion to not sentence children to death. Individuals have been retired under this 2013 amendment to their penal code, but after being retired, most were just resentenced to the death penalty.
The crimes that are considered to be punishable by death under Iranian law include "insulting the prophet", apostasy, same-sex relations, adultery, and certain non-violent drug-related offenses. Many of these mean that the regime is entering into individuals' family and home life to dictate how they live and those who defy the regime are risking death. "Insulting the prophet" is an umbrella charge that the regime and its judiciary use against anyone that they see as a potential threat.
Once an individual is arrested, they are at risk of receiving torture and other ill-treatment before their trial, if they are even allowed a trial. None of this follows the international guidelines for due process and fair trials, which Iran has signed onto, but ignores in practice.
Those who have been charged with #national security crimes, often live with a lack of care and even adequate access to medical care. Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish prisoner who is serving a life sentence, has been denied medical care for her eye. Those who are imprisoned continue to protest using hunger strikes to bring international attention to the prison conditions and their treatment.
Part of the reality of living under the #regime is not just the potential of going to prison. It is the complete suppression of the basic freedoms of the Iranian people. The internet is monitored and various apps are constantly being blocked or censored.
#Journalists are at risk of being arrested, but even those who blog on social media and say something the regime finds inappropriate risk prison time, ill-treatment, and even torture. While there are laws in place to protect these freedoms, it is clear that without a #mechanism to enforce these freedoms and protections, the regime will continue to run over the Iranian people.
Authorities from the Judiciary #Intelligence Agency arrested Sasan Aghaei, 34, deputy editor of the reformist daily Etemad, and Yaghma Fashkhami, a journalist for the Didban Iran website, at their offices in #Tehran on August 13 and 22 in 2017, respectively. As of November 2017, authorities have not charged either individual with a recognizable crime.
Those who are attempting to protect the rights of the working classes are also on the regime's suppression list. When they are jailed, the unionists also receive harsh treatment, in an attempt to limit the leadership of these groups and their ability to mobilize average working #Iranians.
Authorities sent back to prison several prominent trade unionists whom they had sentenced to prison for peaceful activities but later released. Authorities arrested Ismael Abdi, the Secretary General of the Teachers' Union, and Mahmoud Beheshti Langeroudi, the Union's Spokesperson, on June 7 and September 13, respectively, while they were out on furlough. On August 9, #Reza Shahabi, a prominent labor activist, returned to prison to serve the remainder of his six-year prison sentence in order to prevent the judiciary from seizing his bail. Shahabi had been released on medical grounds in May 2014.
Speaking out for #human rights and against the regime's treatment of its citizens is something that receives a harsh response. Scores of human rights defenders and political activists remain behind bars for their peaceful activism.
Abdolfatah Soltani, a prominent human rights lawyer who has been in prison since 2011, is serving a 13-year prison sentence for his human rights work, including co-founding the Defenders of Human Rights Center. Zia Nabavi, a student activist, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Karoon prison in the city of Ahvaz.
On March 16, Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights defender who was arrested in June 2015 to serve the remainder of her six-year prison sentence, began serving a new sentence of 10 years in prison on charges including "membership in the banned campaign of Step by Step to Stop the Death Penalty."
Over the past three years, authorities have prosecuted several Iranian dual citizens who traveled to Iran. These individuals have been accused of spying and other charges. Additionally, the #Iranian regime does not acknowledge that dual citizenship, so they reject any calls from the other countries to release these individuals.
In the end, the realities of life in Iran is full of human rights violations and systemic suppression of the rights of the individual under the rule of the mullahs.


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Cat Videos and Murder
This month marks twenty-five years of the web.
Enjoy the FIRST-EVER cat video, from nearly one hundred years before the web. A film recorded in Edison's office of boxing cats, which neatly ties together the history of a place that has become a bastion for thieves, Copyright infringement and other debauchery, via a motion picture, which Edison stole the patent for by murdering Louis Le Prince.
Hooray progress. Thanks, Al Gore.
Miming Towns of the Old West
If you've ever abandoned all fear and simply wanted to know the thoughts that go through my head, here's a sample from the "Television in BrianLand" File:
"Tonight on Miming Towns of the Old West, Marcel Montana. We'll visit a place where the winds rip so violently through the main square that residents have evolved to walk at a near sixty-degree angle."
[cut to scene of cowboys leaning against non-existent boxes while one pulls on an imaginary rope to lead an equally imaginary horse – VOICEOVER: "Yes, it's never a dull day here in Marcel, sister city to Paris, France. Here we see Bose 'Mr. Pockets' Ketchum wrangling some lunch!"]
"We'll visit the high-security prison [wide shot of three men "trapped" in an imaginary cube], and get to know a four-hundred pound local known only as 'Tumbleweed.'"
"Survivor" Sounds Like a Stretch
The Ted Kennedy Collection promises to be a huge draw at next January's Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction…
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Titanic Number Two: The Remnant
Oscars on your mind? Me neither, because I work for a living. But that didn't stop me from crafting a little Movie mash-up for you. I'm a giver, after all. That said, enjoy this blended mash of Titanic and The Revenant. I call my treatment Titanic Number Two: The Remnant.
All I ask is that you sticklers suspend your "timeline" and "historical facts" bullshit for this overview. This is a movie. They're meant to entertain. We have books and whatnot for "facts" and "historical preservation." Go read one.
A Gilbert Grape-era Leo is in steerage aboard the Titanic, which is transporting French carnival animals to the US, because the American ones don't smell enough to be taken seriously (also, Chris Rock needed a paycheck, and his reprising of the whole Zebra voice-over role really adds a Jar-Jar Binks quality that many dramatic films seems to miss lout on). While a stowaway, Jack Grape befriends a bear, and the bear shares his food, and Jack draws pictures of it in fecal matter (whose, exactly is never discussed) on the walls as dramatic music is played. Stanley Kubrick can guest-direct this scene as an homage to his own work, that self-important hack. Eventually, a bored First-Class passenger wanders to the lower decks in search of adventure and trendy bohemian-looking trinkets to steal from the dying, or to trade items from the cheese cart with the near-dying. Leo meets this girl, and they do it in front of the bear. Sex back then wasn't all that romantic. Hell, these two do it right there, and Jack even draws a picture of it using fecal matter, the source of which is known this time.
The Titanic is taken hostage by a group of Russian paramilitary types, and their poorly-drawn map (stolen from a Dora the Explorer activity set) guides them straight into an iceberg, placed into the script so that the Liberal director can voice his opinion on global warming by killing eleven hundred penguins (again, suspend your geographical knowledge). As the boat sinks, Jack chooses the girl over the bear as sex with her proved slightly less painful. However, the bear survives, making its way South through Canada (in the two movies it takes to cast many, many cameo appearances) to find Jack, where it wreaks a revenge similar to Misery, but all Smaug the Dragon-like, assuming that he were breathing poo instead of fire.
Leo gets help from three penguins who survived the original wreck by latching onto his nipples (to explained in the Director's Cut), all voiced by Liam Neeson, and they capture the bear, and skin it for a rug in their new home.
In the alternate ending, we learn that the whole thing was a dream, taking place in the subconscious of Jack's alternate personality.
More credits.
When Did Hot Rodding Become Hip Hop?
A little piece I threw down for Tubbed Magazine. Stop by and enjoy the second coming of Pro-Street.
Think back to your first memorable experience that set your fate as a "car guy." Don't let nostalgia sway you, just blurt it out. Just roll with the first one that comes to mind.
I'd be willing to bet that it had nothing at all to do with what anyone else thought of you. Taking that a yep further, I'd sweeten that bet by adding that it had nothing to do with fame or money. While one or two of you may have though about the guy with the bitchin' ride in your hometown that got all of the girls or that every other guy wanted to be, that seems pretty normal, and had nothing to do with defining just who you were. It started with the car, right?
Along that patch of blacktop we all travel on our way to becoming full-fledged car guys, we all get a taste of the pride that comes with a thumbs-up at a stoplight, or the strangers wanting to discuss our cars and the one they had "just like it" back in the day. Ego always grows a bit to fill those freshly upholstered bucket seats, and it's all fine if you know how to keep it in check. And if you had any car guy friends worth anything, they knew how to help you keep that in check. It's what good friends do.
It's a family.
Compare your memories to what any kid coming into what remains of the hobby today will know it as:
A bunch of posturing and ego-driven, money-hungry wannabe celebrities driving catalog-sourced vehicles destined to provide big returns at auction. In an entitlement-driven, fame-is-everything era, we're losing the real car guys and builders to a steady stream of TV stars and project managers. It's an awful lot like Hip Hop and reality TV: Just a load of "look at me" bullshit with no redeeming value. And having already conquered reality TV, it's not a far stretch to see the whole thing sink to a level of commerce-driven stereotypes telling you what's cool this week, and making everything so base and trend-driven that they'll be left with little choice but to either cannibalize the damned thing, or just leave it to die and move to the next.
Let's roll with the whole Hip Hop analogy. Let's create a fictional car guy who maybe came into the scene in the late-1970's. He's stoked about these "Pro-Street" cars, and can't get enough of the look. It becomes in his mind the right look: Big, fat tires out back, a rake, skinny tires up front, and perhaps some form of induction poking though the hood. The essentials are in place. Our budding car guy is exposed to cars like Joe Ruggirello's Mustang II or Lisk's Challenger or Kollofsky's '55 Chevy (side note: Anyone else find it coincidental that all of these guys have names befitting a cool character or bad-ass cop in a movie?) or any other of a series of killer, pro-style bruisers. And much as any fan of what would come to be called "Hip-Hop" would have heard Grandmaster Flash or the Cold Crush Brothers early on and been drawn to it for the unique approach and the imagery it inspired in anyone outside of the Bronx, what would come to named "Pro-Street" did likewise to anyone who never cruised Woodward.
While Hip Hop evolved by taking outside influences from funk and soul to new wave and even punk, Pro-Street did likewise, borrowing from Street Freaks and Street Rods and other places, always looking to raise the bar just a touch. And, like anything gaining popularity, each had a stand-out that came to be the face of the movement: Hop Hop had acts like Run DMC, and we scored with names like Sullivan, Dobbertin and Hay (they could play the law firm in that film idea mention earlier). And in that popularity of a select few, we can trace the evolution of each, mans see the ongoing influences applied to shape just where each might head.
Like anything that goes popular, there exists the danger of haven it buckle under its own weight. While Pro-Street suffered from a number of ills, we could blame the decline on magazine saturation and constant competition to be the next big thing, with cars adding more extreme power plants and detailing and so-on, that it just became a caricature of itself, and begged for something to step in and rebel against it. We wound up with Pro-Touring, which didn't seem to heed its own warnings, and is finding itself on a similar path. As for Hip Hop, it changed from a creative ocean of experimentation and arrangement to a soul-less money farm in the 1990's (oh, the similarities between Hip Hop and Pro-Street are many, kids), and eventually a sad joke with all of the "gangsta" posturing and crunk-style bragging. (Side note 2: Consider that Dr. Seuss coined the phrase "crunk car" back in the 1970's, and you start to feel all lightheaded, right? Scary how that works.) Where Hip Hop and its offspring found their way into the mainstream via MTV and radio play, hot rodding was doing likewise via major events, magazines and videos. TV wouldn't be far behind.
It's not such a far reach then, to compare Hip Hop and Hot Rodding. Each became a pale version of its former self once television became a part of the marketing. Hell, we could take this little notion on a whole other ride, but let's settle on the marketing of each as being hand-in-hand harbinger of destruction forthe movement. Don't get me wrong, I get the money thing… We all need to eat. But when the problems come banging down the doors, they usually look like the fresh-from-College guys from Marketing. And when they come visiting, even the goldfish stop swimming, if you get my drift. The dollar signs flash, and it's off to the races. On the music side, it becomes about selling the image of what Marketing thinks that it should be, with reference to moving product (as Yogurt the Wise taught us so many moons ago, the real money is in merchandising). You craft an image, and get the kids to buy into that. On the car side, it's eerily similar: Craft an image of what someone outside of the whole thing thinks it should be (based upon what the data shows will sell), and run with it, facts be damned if need be. Understanding that, it's not so difficult to see why we had shows like Orange County Choppers or, keeping with the theme, Pimp My Ride. On one hand, you had screaming and yelling and time crunch drama because, by golly, that has to be how it is in a real shop, right? The natural outgrowth was American Hot Rod, Wrecks to Riches and their ilk. They appealed to the "behind the scenes" exclusivity gene which TV inserted into the genetic code, and never mind how skewed from reality it might be… Just cash that check and find more shit to fight about. Take that a step further in the appeal to "you can sell these cars and make money!" idea, and by golly, the shows practically write themselves. I am convinced that there are but two formulas for any reality-based show:
1. The Shop as setting for drama (family, client/shop, contest, money or otherwise) formula,
2. The find it/buy it/fix it up/sell for profit/repeat formula
…each of which may be seasoned to taste by adding celebrity appearances, surprises, some form of competition, pranks or canned "tech tips" wherever holes appear in the story line. Take a long, hard look at Monster Garage and tell me it isn't so. Shit, get a hold of a script from Lords of the Car Hoards, Unique Whips, Leepu and Pitbull or Fast N Loud, mix them all up, and I'd bet that a seven year old could put a season's worth of shows together at random, and you'd never be able to tell the difference. You could do likewise with any current Hip Hop video premise. It's not about telling a story or building a cool car; it's about who can brag the loudest. And that opens the door to really scary things, and can usher outcomes like not unlike the Lucifer Effect, as postulated by Philip Zimbardo (aka the Stanford Prison Experiment), wherein the wheels can be put into motion that make a good person do some really twisted evil things. I mean, what would the dollar amount be for you to sell out and bastardize the car hobby you love? Roll with your first instinct. That's a lot of fucking zeros, isn't it? And that's chump change when the Advertising Department bros get involved (and you thought that little fishie was holding still earlier? You ain't seen nothin' yet). And when the image consultants and writers come to play, you'll hardly recognize yourself. It doesn't take a lot to go from singing about your sneakers over a sampled loop to bragging about the women you slept with in the penthouse last week and how big the rims on your SUV are when the residuals roll in.
And that's where we stand today: It's not about some guy with a cool 1970's action movie cop name building a kick-ass machine that will set your synapses afire, blazing a whole new path for thought across your brain or even mashing two things together that have never been mashed before. It's about having some money guy or project manager (at best) playing the douche (OK, sometimes it's not a stretch for the guy. As a wise man once told me, "Only two kinds of people wear sunglasses indoors: Rock stars and assholes. Be on the lookout for a guitar.") and creating some filler to top with ad sales. It's loosely connected product placement opportunities designed to make the numbers so that Trent and Blaine in the front office can keep that tee time. You don;t have the imagination or thrill of discovery involved with your entry to the hobby anymore. Instead, you have an image to play up to, and try to out-douche so that you can make your own mark and score that show.
After all, it isn't about the cars anymore, unless they're a prop for your bitches to lean against while you pose with jewelry and assorted gold-plated handguns. While I can appreciate how anyone uninitiated into the family that is hot rodding can fall for this, you can bet your ass that I'll be stepping into frame and doing my best to drop knowledge on Quick Mix Theory and Bill Jenkins' Pro Stock Vega.
Bonus Script Idea #9,017,244,592
Considering that in modern-day Hollywood, virtually everything can benefit from a remake, I'm finding time to finish a script idea that could go one of two ways:
1. ZAPRUDER! becomes a musical comedy, set in a just-off-Broadway theme, but as told from an independent filmmaker who is attempting to make the stage production of a play about another independent filmmaker who happens to capture an historic event on camera (only to later record over most of it with Gong Show reruns) into a feature film, but is doing so in guerrilla style, so as to avoid paying any of the actors, using the ruse of filming a "making of the documentary about the making of the play." It's all very Inception meets the Twilight Zone, but with the tone of an early episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Assuming that the show were produced in the universe of A Clockwork Orange.
2. Zapruder: Rise of the Third Gunman becomes a 3-hour, single tracking shot action epic with Michael Bay-style explosions, telling the story of the Kennedy assassination… I'm leaning toward this, as the sheer joy of having Bruce Willis wander off-set in the final moments of the perfect shot leaves me tingling with anxiety.
Failing those, we could simply head back to the toilet and drop back into a parody:
International Iceberg Lettuce Appreciation Day
A Visit to the Shrine of Stein
While the Max Wedge reached its pinnacle in 1964, when the Stage III version was released, the legacy lives on in the garage of Mr. Jerry Stein. One of the most respected of the Stock Eliminator racers, Jerry managed to not only have a career as a Physical Education teacher, but raise a family as well, all while besting the bigger-budget 'other' makes on the track. As a young man, I had looked up to what Jerry was achieving, and simply marveled at what ingenuity and creativity, coupled with a deep understanding of the mechanics involved could produce. In Jerry's case, it was success after success on the strip, netting him NHRA records, and a very impressive collection of trophies and accolades.
I was honored with the opportunity to visit with Jerry as a stop on the Dart Road Trip, riding along with another of my automotive heroes, Mr. Steve Magnante! Never could I have imagined riding shotgun with a walking encyclopedia of all things Mopar, but to stop with him and visit Jerry Stein, and see, in person, not one, but two of the Teacher's Pet cars! It made for a number of raised-pulse moments with every turn and glance around Jerry's garage, and certainly etched that afternoon deep into my brain. Rather than clutter what was indeed a tremendously visual visit to the garage of Mr. Jerry Stein, I thought it best to approach this entry much the same way as I did:
In quiet reverence of the incredible history and collection of rare and just plain cool parts and pieces contained within. Enjoy.
The man himself, revisiting some great memories.
Just a peek at a small portion of Jerry's collection of parts and pieces… not to mention two versions of the famous Teacher's Pet.
While some may offer their eye teeth for one, Jerry has some Max Wedge intakes stacked like fire wood in his garage.
Aluminum front end pieces? Yeah, Jerry has those, as well. Consider what seeing these did to my inner 14 year-old: I had only read about these as a car-obsessed kid… and there I was on a sunny NJ day, staring down a pair of aluminum fenders, resting atop a Max Wedge car, in Jerry Stein's garage. With Steve Magnante. Mind blown.
Consider just how cool this is… Aluminum pieces used for weight savings back then would have been considered exotic. My Challenger has an aluminum hood, and the weight-saving materials on the Dart Rallye we drove to Jerry's place, along with the technology on board, would have seemed far beyond exotic in the days of the Max Wedge cars. Having both the Dart and the classic racing parts and cars in one police was a study in contrasts to be certain, yet, the logical progression from drag strip to fuel-efficient thinking and design seems quite natural. Following this visit, my mind has been working over-time on some ideas to combine the power-hungry Max Wedge days with the modern day Dart, but more on that in a future blog. At that moment I saw the aluminum fenders in question, it was as though I had peered back through time on a number of levels.
As an aside: Growing up, I was (and remain to this day) a custom car fanatic. Taking the aluminum front end story a step or two beyond the lightweight racing purpose, consider how, just a year after the Max Wedge cars dominated, the mighty Hemi was to return. I mention this simply because of the unique tie it has to my custom car appreciation: In '65, the first Hemi cars were slated to become Max Wedge cars, much like the pair you see here. These were switched to become Hemi cars, and a few were shipped to the famous customizers, the Alexander Brothers in Detroit, to be converted to altered-wheelbase cars (having the wheels moved forward in the chassis for better weight transfer). My mechanized adventure in Jersey continued to scramble my gray matter. I was standing in the presence of history, and inching closer and closer, in terms of degrees of separation, to realizing so many of the car-crazy dreams of my youth. I was beginning to fear that the goosebumps may never go away, and that was just fine by me.
This selection of photos scratches the surface of our visit to Jerry Stein's incredible collection of racing parts and history, and I truly hope that you feel as though we were there together. It bordered on overwhelming at times, attempting to mentally catalog all that was contained in that garage, as well as listen to Jerry tell some great and entertaining tales, and Steve pointing out unique parts and supplying facts and figures which brought that history to life… This was certainly a day that I'll never forget, and hopefully you've seen a few things here that you've always wanted to see, and will never forget as well.
Family man meets racer:
Where's Wally? In Jerry's dining room. Many times over.
Peering over the shoulder of a giant:
Bonus points if you can name this nifty little piece and what makes it so darned nifty:
The past and the present in some wonderful harmony under a clear New Jersey sky:
This selection of photos scratches the surface of our visit to Jerry Stein's incredible collection of racing parts and history, and I truly hope that you feel as though we were there together. It bordered on overwhelming at times, attempting to mentally catalog all that was contained in that garage, as well as listen to Jerry tell some great and entertaining tales, and Steve pointing out unique parts and supplying facts and figures which brought that history to life… This was certainly a day that I'll never forget, and hopefully you've seen a few things here that you've always wanted to see, and will never forget as well.
Adventures in Self-Employed ArtistLand
I'm implementing a technique that seems common when people phone the Studio. When grocery shopping, I'm going to inform the first person I come in contact with that another store has this or that at a lower price. This may prove awkward in restaurants, Dentist offices, etc, but it would appear to be a fairly common practice, and may work in my favor (it fails regularly in the Studio, FYI).
I'm also going to start dropping names of the shopping cart attendants, meat department managers and so-on that I know around town, and sprinkling in a celebrity now and then for added punch.
I'll leave out the names, and slightly change the subject to protect the moronic, but here's an example:
"I totally know the Crest Brothers. I was friends with them when they invented toothpaste."
"Um… I think you'll find that toothpaste dates back to at least the 4th century AD in Egypt."
"I meant the stripey kind."
"Yeah, that was Leonard Marrafino in like 1955."
"Uh… that's what I meant. We called him 'Crest' 'Big Crest' was the MAN."
"You called him two people before you were born? Was he a conjoined twin toothpaste inventor? That's really neat, and pretty bizarre. You'd think they'd have featured his toothbrush on Mysteries at the Museum or something. 'This double-ended tooth cleaning implement was the personal grooming tool of history's most celebrated two-in-one inventor. What secrets could it hold, and why is one side worn slightly more than the other?' I'd watch the shit out of that."


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Samba..alla Turca! has proved to be very popular, in a number of different arrangements.
Over the years, it has spawned different versions - some fairly conventional in instrumental, others somewhat more challenging. A lot of these different versions have come about from email requests around the world, and others just as a perceived need for this or that popular combination.
I noticed that I haven't actually made an arrangement for Woodwind Trio, and which is quite a popular ensemble, so have made one specifically for Flute / Clarinet / Bassoon.
However, I have also seen trios where the top part is replaced by Oboe, so in this present arrangement, the top part is playable either by Flute or Oboe. In the present piece, this was even achievable without altering a single note, essentially because their playing-ranges are not that dissimilar.
As with all my arrangement of Samba..alla Turca! there are little bits which make it original, and, of course, the challenge of writing effective 'tune', 'harmony' and 'bass-line' is always greater where just three instruments are used.
If there's any other combination, or instrumental switch you'd like, just email, and I'll always see if something is viable!
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As Tuesday's midterm elections approach, it's gotten so deep for the Democrats that President Barack Obama just had to make a stunning announcement . . .
Just then, Obama gave notice that he couldn't stay for dinner, and had to cut out early. But before he split for Washington, he offered up a verbal appetizer.
"I've got to get home because Michelle is on the road," the president explained. "So I've got to be home to tuck in the girls and walk the dog. And scoop the poop." . . .
Yes, scoop the poop.
Is that what many Democrats in Congress are calling it, with Tuesday on their minds?
The reason for all these stops? Political scooping.
The Obama administration has deposited dangerous leavings across the land, and his loyal Democratic Congress has stepped in it.
They're the ones who will pay at the polls for his excessive feeding of the federal government.
Obama lost the independent voters. He had them in his pocket just 24 months ago. But he drove them off by doing something politicians should never do:
Jamming what the people didn't want down their throats and telling them to like it.
It started with a near-trillion-dollar federal stimulus — including cash for a famous study on coked-up monkeys — and it got worse.
Americans didn't want coked-up monkeys. And they didn't want the White House to own General Motors.
They didn't want massive government programs like his revamping of health care. They told him they didn't like it at all those angry town hall meetings. But he didn't listen.
And he didn't listen when moderate Democrats warned him. He didn't listen as many independents became radicalized as tea party protesters.
So the White House tried to demonize the tea party. At first the Axelrodian response was to insist the tea party folks were crazy, because only lunatics would oppose an unprecedented and costly expansion of the federal leviathan, right?
When that didn't work, the tea party folks were labeled as racists. Then as fearmongers. It all failed.
So on Tuesday, the bill will be paid. But the president isn't the one picking up the check. The Democrats in Congress get stuck with this one, and it's their fault too, because they smoked the Hopium and closed their eyes and voted for his agenda . . .
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- Concerned Taxpayer said...
I just think it's hilarious that Ellsworth accuses Coats of lobbying for the "Tax & Crush" bill, that will, in the words of Ellsworth, "DEVASTATE HOOSIERS."
Yet the democrats are doing everything they can to PASS the bill!
- Marycatherine Barton said...
Isn't it hilarious, concerned taxpayer. And AI, what all you say about the reasons for dissatisfaction are true, but still, I would not be surprised if 90% of the incumbents are reelected(down 6% from the norm).


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Columbia reaches settlement with the EPA
COLUMBIA - The Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Columbia have reached a settlement for a series of Clean Water Violations at Columbia's landfill. The city agreed to pay a civil penalty of $54,396 and construct a wetland.
The city had a series of violations from December 2011 through March 2015, according to EPA region 7's Public Affair Specialist, Chris Whitley.
Whitley said the Columbia landfill discharged pollutants such as iron, oil/grease, and suspended solids that exceeded the limit authorized by the state.
"The state gets the authority to issue it [permits] and sets the limit for the permit holder on how much pollutants can be discharged," Whitley said.
Since the violations, the city says it is has made improvements to its landfill management practices.
"We had a lot of violations for high sediment, and a lot of that was difficulty getting good vegetation established there," said David Sorrell, Assistant Director of Public Utilities for Columbia.
Sorrell said crews established more vegetation at the landfill to prevent erosion of solids into the stormwater basins and cleaned out the basins.
In addition to paying $54,396, which is due at the end of October, the city will also construct a wetland at the area of the landfill. The wetland will help reduce the amount of water runoff in Hinkson Creek.
"It [the wetland] will allow that water to infiltrate the ground instead of running directly into Hinkson Creek, but when it is big enough rainfall that the water does discharge it will be treated by the plants in the wetland," Sorrell said.
The city is required to complete the wetland within three years.
"We actually have plans that are already prepared for the construction, and we are going to build a sewer on Hinkson Creek, and so we are going to bid those projects together," Sorrell said.
Details about the settlement can be found on the EPA's website.


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It's time to make tasty hot dog! Are you into free online fast food games? Hot Dog Bush is the rational option for you! The game puts you in the shoes of an ambitious George 'Dubya' Bush and it's your turn to begin your business career. You are supposed to make delicious hot dogs and sell them day after to earn enough cash. Make an effort to take the orders from customers, prepare hot dogs burgers and drinks. Don't let your customers get mad, or else you will lose them! Okay, you probably learnt basic rules of the game! Let's start the game now and good luck!


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Rating: 5 Cups of Coffee
Goodreads' Book Description:Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. After all, it wasn't the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. That's just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame?
Finn knows that's not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go.
As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap—their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures—acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness—a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.
Alex's Experience:I was hooked from page one of this novel. Although the story intrigued me, it was Laura Ruby's writing that drew me in. The abundance of beautiful similes and metaphors sometimes made it hard for me to read this book without pausing every paragraph to think, "Damn." Her descriptions made the whole story so much more vivid and real for me. For example: "The pavement in front of Finn ended in a wall of sky, as if it had been sliced off by the swing of a scythe," or "The water churned and rushed and sucked and tossed him, and strange yellow eyes watched him from the sky and from the tall banks, and black shapes writhed under the surface of the river and brushed and bumped against his body – ridges of bone, sandpaper skin, the brief press of teeth that tested, tested." Damn.
If the writing doesn't do it for you, the story will. When Finn O'Sullivan witnesses the kidnapping of his friend Roza but can't remember the face of the man who took her, nobody believes his story. He's still determined to find out the truth behind her kidnapping, to remember the face of the man who moves "like a cornstalk twitching in the wind." Finn's beautiful and heartbreaking story explores themes of love, loss and magic and will keep you wanting more. The book switches perspectives every chapter, usually between Finn and Roza, but other residents of Bone Gap make their thoughts known to us as well, like Petey, the beekeeper's daughter whose tongue is sharper than a bee's sting and makes a shocking discovery about Finn, or Sean, Finn's older brother and town hero. This is a novel that really needs these perspectives, because the story isn't whole without them.
This novel seems like a regular thriller/suspense story, but it is so much more than that. As it progresses, you realize there is so much more to Finn, Roza and Petey than meets the eye. Finn isn't just a spacey, awkward boy. He's perceptive, loving and surprises everyone in Bone Gap with his determination despite a strange affliction you do not see coming. Roza's Polish roots seep into every page of her thoughts, and the story wouldn't be complete without them. She is strong and fights for her freedom with rough, calloused hands and a heart that longs to see Sean again. Petey is tough and hates being in Bone Gap, yet she has a soft spot for two things: bees and Finn.
Bone Gap is a thrilling, magical story that will take you through the gaps of Finn's mind, Bone Gap and the sea of corn that whispers here, here, here. You will escape to another world, and then another world within that one.
Charlie Valentine, the bizarre man who lets his chickens run wild in his home and harbors a secret Finn desperately needs to know, puts it best: "We don't have your typical gaps around here. Not gaps made of rocks or mountains. We have gaps in the world. In the space of things. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that they're there. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. Or maybe you don't want to find your way out."
Brew some coffee with honey (recipe here!) and lose yourself in this book. You won't regret it.
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Clarence United overcame a physical Launceston City outfit to record a 2-0 win in their first game at Wentworth Park since Round 4.
Clarence overcome Launceston City
In typically cold conditions, the Reds put in a strong second half showing after heading into the break deadlocked, to take the win and leapfrog the Kingborough Lions on the PS4 NPL Tasmania ladder.
The win leaves Clarence a solitary point behind Launceston City on the ladder now and on this showing, they may well end up above them at season's end.
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Warriors cruise past Rangers
The Olympia FC Warriors made it three wins in a row with a comfortable 3-0 win over Northern Rangers at Warrior Park. Canadian Gavin Hoy was at his brilliant best as the Warriors lead from early on in the contest and the three points never looked in doubt.
The first chance of the game fell Rangers way but Jorge Palacio blazed wide from 18 yards after getting in behind the Warriors lines.
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Strikers weather storm to steal precious points
Devonport have moved four points clear at the top of the PS4 National Premier League Tasmania with a 2–0 win over a wasteful South Hobart in a top of the table clash at Valley Road.
Fresh off Lakoseljac Cup glory, the Strikers made it two victories over South Hobart in one week, producing a two goal second stanza to surge further ahead at the top of the table.
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The Hobart JEEP Zebras pulled of a houdini-esque escape at Lightwood Park this afternoon, overcoming a two goal deficit at half time to score three second half goals and steal the three points from a solid Kingborough outfit that can consider themselves unlucky to not have taken more from the game. Luke Huigsloot was the star for the Zebras, whilst for the Lions, Shane Cartwright was in absolutely everything.
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On this day in 2005, Togo turned away a plane carrying Nigerian peacemakers, drawing threats of sanctions and accusations from Nigeria that it was blocking efforts to resolve a crisis widely condemned as a military coup…
– Also on this day in 2010, Goodluck Jonathan, the Vice President at the time removed the powerful Justice Minister in his first major action since assuming executive powers in the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua. The outgoing Justice Minister and Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa had been among the group of ministers who held out most strenuously against formally transferring power to Jonathan.
– In 2012, also on this day, the officers from the State Security Service and soldiers raided a home in Mutum Biyu, Taraba state, where Kabiru Sokoto, alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect's Christmas Day church bombing was hiding.
Sokoto had escaped a day after his arrest, and they later found him behind a rack of drying laundry where he was hiding. Two explosions went off outside a customs building in Maiduguri, killing four bombers and wounding two soldiers.


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Supervisor Joseph Saladino announced at a press conference on Oct. 23 that the town had received a $500,000 grant from State Sen. Carl Marcellino to continue making improvements to the hamlet of Oyster Bay's historic downtown business district.
The Oyster Bay Downtown Improvement Project will extend streetscape and crosswalk work along Audrey Avenue to connect Fireman's Field, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park and the Western Waterfront to the hamlet's main street. The funds were awarded to the town by the New York State Economic Development Fund.
"While discussions for this grant began earlier this year, paperwork in final pursuit of the grant was filed with the senator's office within the last month or so," said town spokeswoman Marta Kane. "Once this is all finalized during the winter months, we'll begin the design phase, after which we will go into the next step in the process, which is the bid phase and contractor procurement."
Colin Bell, the town's deputy commissioner for the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs, said the funds would help continue a streetscaping project in the hamlet.
"We received some grant funding for this community about two years ago, and we made an application to the senator within the last six months," Bell said. "He worked quickly to make it happen for us."
The Oyster Bay Downtown Improvement Project includes the installation of decorative paver crosswalks, which will replace the existing painted crosswalks. The appearance of the paver crosswalks serves a dual purpose: continuing a "visual theme" in the downtown, while also creating a safety zone for pedestrians.
"The pavers will be installed along Audrey Avenue, near the gazebo," said Rich LaMarca, president of the Oyster Bay Civic Association, "and since they're brick pavers, it will provide a much better look for the downtown."
The project will also provide new infrastructure for the bicycling community. Covered bike racks will be installed around the downtown area so cyclists can take a break from their rides to enjoy the sites of Oyster Bay.
"This infrastructure at Firemen's Field and Theodore Roosevelt Park will develop a common-theme connection between those areas and Audrey Avenue," LaMarca said.
Ultimately, the goal of the revitalization is to bring more visitors to the hamlet, Marcellino said. "We're improving the quality of life for the people in the town, but we're also improving the business community and the area as a whole."
Marcellino said the revitalization project would attract more people to Oyster Bay to enjoy the town, its restaurants and its facilities. "It's important that we maintain local business and local storefronts," he said. "This is a destination town with a business community that is second to none."
Ryan Schlotter, the incoming president of the Oyster Bay Chamber of Commerce, said he was appreciative of the town's commitment to local business through the facilitation of the grant. He is also the co-owner of Oyster Bay Brewing Company.
"We see projects going on that increase the eye appeal of the town, and it puts us all on the same wavelength," Schlotter said. "We want to bring people here for our businesses, and when the town backs us up and does the same, I think that's a recipe for a good downtown area."
LaMarca, who also sits on the chamber board, said he viewed the project as "a start to public investment in the Town of Oyster Bay. We've already seen new investment in businesses, and several new restaurants, and I expect we'll see more investment on the part of all levels of government."
The town anticipates construction of the project to begin in the spring of 2020.