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Continue reading …Towns throughout Ohio and parts of the Midwest braced for more flooding Tuesday, a day after storms and tornadoes damaged buildings and homes in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Three tornadoes touched down in Indiana on Monday. A tornado destroyed three homes in Kentucky’s Henry County, northeast of Louisville, and six…
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Photo: B. Alter: Aquatics Centre, December, 2010 London’s successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: that’s Olympic-speak for maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. The massive Olympic Stadium has just been saved from threat of demolition but now the Zaha Hadid-designed Aquatics Centre is going down the drain. The giant swimming pool has been controversial from the start and rema… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Poll: Over One Million Wisconsin Voters Ready To Sign His Recall Petition, But Walker Doubles Down
March 1, 2011 No CommentYou have to hand it to Scott Walker — he’s a wingnut true believer, with the charming personality of a rock and absolutely all the political instincts of a dead fish. Because Wisconsin voters are awake now, they know that class war is being waged, and they’re not going to sit and take it: MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers represents just one piece of his vision for the state’s future. Now he’s ready to reveal the rest. With the union rights proposal stuck in a legislative stalemate thanks to runaway Senate Democrats, Walker planned to forge ahead with the Tuesday release of his two-year spending plan that will include major cuts to schools and local governments to help close a projected $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated for two weeks against Walker’s collective bargaining proposal, which he calls necessary to free local governments from having to bargain with public employee unions as they deal with the cuts he’ll outline Tuesday. Schools last week started putting teachers on notice that their contracts may not be renewed for next year given the budget uncertainty. Walker has confirmed he will propose cutting education aid by about $900 million, or 9 percent statewide. School leaders are bracing for more bad news. The governor is expected Tuesday to announce a new revenue limit that would require a $500 per-pupil reduction in property tax authority. The limits, in place since 1993, have gradually grown to reflect increasing education costs. That part of Walker’s proposal alone would reduce the money available to the state’s 424 districts by 7 percent, or nearly $600 million , based on a study done by University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky. Looks like his arrogance will cost him big-time . A new poll shows that an estimate 1.1 million Wisconsin voters are willing to sign his recall petition, and that of eight Republican state senators. Yes, elections have consequences. But when you act as if you’re the only person whose opinions count, well, the voters have a way of reminding you otherwise.
Continue reading …Poll: Over One Million Wisconsin Voters Ready To Sign His Recall Petition, But Walker Doubles Down
March 1, 2011 No CommentYou have to hand it to Scott Walker — he’s a wingnut true believer, with the charming personality of a rock and absolutely all the political instincts of a dead fish. Because Wisconsin voters are awake now, they know that class war is being waged, and they’re not going to sit and take it: MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers represents just one piece of his vision for the state’s future. Now he’s ready to reveal the rest. With the union rights proposal stuck in a legislative stalemate thanks to runaway Senate Democrats, Walker planned to forge ahead with the Tuesday release of his two-year spending plan that will include major cuts to schools and local governments to help close a projected $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated for two weeks against Walker’s collective bargaining proposal, which he calls necessary to free local governments from having to bargain with public employee unions as they deal with the cuts he’ll outline Tuesday. Schools last week started putting teachers on notice that their contracts may not be renewed for next year given the budget uncertainty. Walker has confirmed he will propose cutting education aid by about $900 million, or 9 percent statewide. School leaders are bracing for more bad news. The governor is expected Tuesday to announce a new revenue limit that would require a $500 per-pupil reduction in property tax authority. The limits, in place since 1993, have gradually grown to reflect increasing education costs. That part of Walker’s proposal alone would reduce the money available to the state’s 424 districts by 7 percent, or nearly $600 million , based on a study done by University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky. Looks like his arrogance will cost him big-time . A new poll shows that an estimate 1.1 million Wisconsin voters are willing to sign his recall petition, and that of eight Republican state senators. Yes, elections have consequences. But when you act as if you’re the only person whose opinions count, well, the voters have a way of reminding you otherwise.
Continue reading …‘Ethicist’ Columnist Randy Cohen Departs New York Times, Leaving Leftist Legacy Behind
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After 12 years and 614 columns (by his count), Randy Cohen has penned his last “Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine , signing off last Sunday. Cohen’s columns, in which he gave letter-writers advice on the right thing to do in ethically sticky situations, often glanced over cultural and ideological topics, which Cohen consistently addressed from a pungent left-wing perspective. According to the paper's veteran columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates should have sued the police, and no one can work for a tobacco company in good conscience. Below are some liberal lowlights from Cohen, both from his column, his blog, and various television appearances. In an October 24, 2010 column, Cohen wrote that no one could honorably work for a tobacco company. The gravity of the misdeeds is also significant. I believe, for example, nobody may honorably work for a tobacco company, the maker of a toxic product that, used as directed, annually kills 400,000 Americans. How grave is too grave? Alas, there is no universal bright line. But your employer seems to have crossed yours. On June 20, 2010 Cohen defended socialism's good name: Incidentally, not that the president is one, but how does it defame a person to call him a “socialist” (outside of nutty far-right circles) — a set of ideas many advanced Western democracies find congenial, what with the accessible health-care, affordable higher education and good public transportation? In a July 27, 2009 blog item on nytimes.com, he wrote of the then-current controversy over Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, urging Gates to sue the Cambridge police for arresting him for disorderly conduct, arguing that a lawsuit would be a valuable tool to probe “the troubled history of police interactions with African-Americans.” Cohen judged the entire episode through the prism of race, failing to address the fact that at least two of Crowley's black fellow officers back him up and not Gates.
Continue reading …‘Ethicist’ Columnist Randy Cohen Departs New York Times, Leaving Leftist Legacy Behind
March 1, 2011 No Comment
After 12 years and 614 columns (by his count), Randy Cohen has penned his last “Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine , signing off last Sunday. Cohen’s columns, in which he gave letter-writers advice on the right thing to do in ethically sticky situations, often glanced over cultural and ideological topics, which Cohen consistently addressed from a pungent left-wing perspective. According to the paper's veteran columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates should have sued the police, and no one can work for a tobacco company in good conscience. Below are some liberal lowlights from Cohen, both from his column, his blog, and various television appearances. In an October 24, 2010 column, Cohen wrote that no one could honorably work for a tobacco company. The gravity of the misdeeds is also significant. I believe, for example, nobody may honorably work for a tobacco company, the maker of a toxic product that, used as directed, annually kills 400,000 Americans. How grave is too grave? Alas, there is no universal bright line. But your employer seems to have crossed yours. On June 20, 2010 Cohen defended socialism's good name: Incidentally, not that the president is one, but how does it defame a person to call him a “socialist” (outside of nutty far-right circles) — a set of ideas many advanced Western democracies find congenial, what with the accessible health-care, affordable higher education and good public transportation? In a July 27, 2009 blog item on nytimes.com, he wrote of the then-current controversy over Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, urging Gates to sue the Cambridge police for arresting him for disorderly conduct, arguing that a lawsuit would be a valuable tool to probe “the troubled history of police interactions with African-Americans.” Cohen judged the entire episode through the prism of race, failing to address the fact that at least two of Crowley's black fellow officers back him up and not Gates.
Continue reading …AMD compares upcoming Llano Fusion APU with Intel Core i7, puts the heat on Sandy Bridge (video)
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So far, AMD’s new Fusion chips have been all about the low-end, whether you’re talking in terms of price, performance or power consumption , but the company has a vision for its future that has these new Accelerated Processing Units dominating every segment of the market. In order to do that, AMD will need to overcome Intel’s latest generation of mainstream processors, the Core 2011 family we’re more familiar with under the Sandy Bridge codename. Before you rush past the break and watch AMD’s own comparison between said Intel hardware and the forthcoming quad-core Llano APU, be aware that processor performance can rarely be generalized from a single test alone and the one we’re witnessing is specifically geared to highlight the Fusion chip’s strengths. All that said, the workload demonstrated by AMD — a 3D game, HD video playback ( plus post-processing on the Llano rig), Excel calculations, and some 3D modeling, all running simultaneously — is handled most impressively by the A8-3510MX APU, which even manages to use less power than Intel’s 2GHz Core i7-2630QM. See the video after the break. [Thanks, Vygantas ] Continue reading AMD compares upcoming Llano Fusion APU with Intel Core i7, puts the heat on Sandy Bridge (video) AMD compares upcoming Llano Fusion APU with Intel Core i7, puts the heat on Sandy Bridge (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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If you’re old enough to have spent any time in an arcade, surely at some point you splurged an extra couple of quarters to play a game in a seat that moved a bit, shook a bit, made some feeble attempt at making you feel like you’re really in the game . Kid’s play, that stuff (quite literally), but just like people don’t stop gaming as they get older so too such motion simulation tech doesn’t have to stay for kiddies. Enter Force Dynamics and enter the 401cr: a full-bore motion simulator that can not only generate over a G of acceleration but can spin you right ’round as many times as you like. We took it for a quite a few spins indeed, plus more than one crash, and we think you’ll want to check them out the video below. Gallery: Force Dynamics Continue reading Force Dynamics 401cr test drive Force Dynamics 401cr test drive originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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