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Why design a high-tech lightweight car and make it four times as heavy as the competition? In a footnote, the Times sources its chart to How Stuff Works, where D found the following sentence: Even though the body is sculpted in carbon fiber to minimize its mass, the car weighs in at about 4,300 pounds (1,950 kg). For comparison, a Dodge Viper weighs about 1,000 pounds (454 kg) less. [Emph. added] That's more like it. ... Not hard to tell what happened here. The LAT can't even steal straight! ... Desperate attempt to find Larger Significance in this incident: Here's a question for MoveOn and everyone whining about the Times staff reductions: Is it more likely that this minor howler resulted from a) corporate layoffs and staff cuts that have left the Times with too few editors to do a good job; or b) a history of bloat and lassitude that have left the Times with too many non-good** editors who should be laid off? **--Four layers of "experienced Times editors," according to the late David Shaw's famous anti-blogging article--which might as well have been subtitled "Invitation to a Layoff." 9:54 P.M.
Primaries head to the finish line
The two Senators are now expected to go head-to-head in Nevada and South Carolina, and then on to what is being called "Super Tuesday" February 5, where the winner may be decided. The basic thrust of the rest of the Democratic contest will be between Clinton and her experience, and Obama's message of hope and building a broad national coalition to make change. No such clarity exists on the Republican side. Former Governor Mike Huckabee's victory in Iowa was rightly attributed to that state's sizable evangelical Christian voting bloc. With this movement's support for Huckabee's conservative positions on "social values", the underfunded Huckabee was able to overcome the well-funded campaign of former Governor Mitt Romney, who spent well over $10 million in Iowa.
Tver Region
In 1775, Tver once again became the center of the Tver governorship (Tver Province as of 1796).
From 1809 to 1812, Tver was the center of the newly organized Tver, Yaroslavl, and Novgorod governorship. Putevoi Palace became the residence of the governor-general, Prince G.F. Oldenburg.
Aleksandr Pushkin visited Tver a number of times between 1820 and 1830; and celebrated figures such as poet Fedor Glinka, dramatist Aleksandr Ostrovsky, writers Fedor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ivan Lazhechnikov, and Aleksandr Ertel and many others lived here in the 19th century.
The city's development kept up with the times. All events occurring in Russia were reflected in its social, political, and cultural life. The first congress of zemstvo doctors [doctors who worked for municipal health care systems organized by local assemblies known as zemstvo in the 19th century] was held here in 1871, and the Tver provincial scientific archive committee was set up in 1884.
Dell spends $340m on summer of SAM
Dell said it is spending around $340m to buy Asap Software, a software asset-management (SAM) company, as part of an effort to simplify how customers can communicate with it. Asap is one of the leading SAM companies, with offices in France and the US. SAM is becoming increasingly important as legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley and pressure from organisations such as Microsoft and the Business Software Alliance puts increasing pressure on companies to maintain compliance. The acquisition will "strengthen Dell's existing software business by integrating Asap's complementary expertise in managing software licensing, purchasing, renewals, and compliance", Dell said. It said it anticipates closing the deal in the third quarter of this financial year. According to David Marmonti, president of Dell EMEA, the acquisition will mean Dell customers "will have one of the world's leading software-solutions providers as a single point of expertise and accountability for software licensing, compliance, renewal and asset management".
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Struggling to keep up with snow
Because of the continuing snowfall, the Garfield County Road and Bridge Department may have to go back to the county commissioners to request more money - used to pay for expenses like "IceSlicer" that is used to break ice on area roads - than was requested for 2008, said Marvin Stephens, the county's road and bridge director. According to the county's 2008 budget, there is $35,000 appropriated for snowplowing and ice removal.
That budget does not include money for labor or truck maintenance, Stephens said.
"It has bit into my snowplow budget pretty good," Stephens said of the constantly falling snow. "If it keeps going, we will have to go back to (county) commissioners and ask for more money."
A figure for how much the county has spent on recent snow removal was not immediately available.
Every School Every Thursday -- Johnston
Our hope, as we plan our metric Olympics, is that students will have fun while they learn to convert and measure in the metric system. The event is complete with medals for our event winners.
Congratulations to Cameron Biondi and Victoria Horstman for being selected to attend the Optimist Club Youth Appreciation Luncheon. Each year the Optimist Clubs from central Iowa honor students for their contributions and accomplishments to their schools and communities. Biondi and Horstman were selected for their outstanding modeling of the six pillars of character. Both students have demonstrated excellent academic skills and model the good character each and every day.
Three ninth-grade students represented the school at the State girls' cross country meet. Brittany Trow ran a time of 14:57 and placed 21.
Are online firms doing secret deals with DDoS attackers?
A security expert from IBM has controversially suggested a number of large companies are still "more often than not" paying off cyber criminals threatening them with distributed denial-of-service attacks. The accusation comes despite claims from many major online businesses who say they do not negotiate with criminals. Speaking at Virus Bulletin 2005 in Dublin, malware specialist at IBM, Martin Overton, said the DDoS scams, which typically target companies that rely upon peaks of online transactions such as internet bookmakers, are still a major money spinner for the criminals. Discussing the dilemma many bookmakers have faced, Overton said: "If you're a bookmaker and somebody comes to you and says we're going to take you down during a major sporting event, what are you going to do?" "More often than not they pay up," Overton told delegates.
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