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10 Actors Who Became Younger With Crazy CGI Tricks
There are times when age outraces an actor, especially at times when he or she needs to feature in a film which is a sequel to an older film done by them in a younger age. In today's time, CGI can create almost any visual, as long as you are not trying to take away Superman's mustache in Justice League. There is a great deal of movies which have portrayed old actors as their younger versions to serve the purpose of the narrative. We have compiled a list of such films.
Jeff Bridges – Tron Legacy
Upon the return of Tron Legacy in 2011, two of its famous characters Kevin Flynn and CLU also returned, and Jeff Bridges played both the characters. However, CLU happened to be a computer, it was given a younger appearance with the help of CGI and VFX, and it turned out to be quite bad. Things looked even worse when we saw the real Jeff Bridges in the movie. This call by Disney was absolutely beyond reason!
Michael Douglas – Ant-Man
Disney seems to have put in a lot in its de-aging techniques as they repeatedly keep coming up with older films and create the new ones. This serves well at times, and at other times it fails to work. Ant-Man was a film where the de-aging thing was managed well during a flashback scene featuring Michael Douglas which showed a younger Hank Pym as Ant-Man. That was quite courageous of Disney!
Carrie Fisher – Star Wars: Rogue One
Among the biggest memories of the movie's ending was the appearance of Princess Leia. Fisher was seen as the young Princess Leia, something necessitated by the movie's plot. Despite being a small scene, it polarized the fans as some of them were delighted by it, and others criticized the imperfection.
Robert Downey Jr. – Captain America: Civil War
The very first scene featuring Robert Downey Jr. in Captain America: Civil War depicted a much younger version of the actor, and it felt as if we were seeing the Downey of the 1990s. It was then revealed to be a hologram used by Tony to describe his new B.A.R.F. technology. Overall, people liked the younger CGI aided Tony.
Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Once again we were surprised by Disney's de-aging work in 2017. Johnny Depp saw his years getting reversed courtesy CGI in the latest Pirates film which featured a younger Jack Sparrow. It was akin to the younger days of Johnny Depp, and it was certainly the best piece of de-aging ever in a film.
Orlando Bloom – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
It's universally known that Elves don't age, thus, the team chose to give Orlando Bloom a CGI rejuvenation in the film as he was last seen in the Lord of The Rings trilogy almost a decade back, and this isn't X-Men, where people don't age a day in a decade! The CGI facelift gave Legolas a shiny, glowing face which appeared a bit strange to eagle-eyed viewers.
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen – X-Men The Last Stand
By doing this shoddy work, Fox proved that Disney is superior to them in every aspect, even the art of de-aging stars using CGI. While their CGI team certainly tried their best to make the duo look younger, there wasn't much success. The funny thing is that as per X-Men: Apocalypse, McAvoy, and Fasbender would look as old as Stewart and McKellen in only three years.
Kurt Russell – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
One of Disney's best de-aging endeavors was the touch given to Kurt Russell. Yet, Russell did resemble a 35-year-old human being. Russell who portrayed Ego the living planet in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel was given a younger look to narrate a key plot point.
Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence
This can be called the most disgusting de-aging job ever done in Hollywood because Dwayne The Rock Johnson was given the appearance of a young dancing blob of fat. However, it was all in good jest, and people laughed at it, thus, no offense taken.
Arnold Schwarzenegger – Terminator: Genisys
Schwarzenegger filmed a fight sequence with his own younger version. While Arnold looks old, he was given a younger look in both ways, using makeup, and CGI of course. The CGI element was done very well, and we managed to get a good fight sequence.


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Halloween is a 2018 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Jeff Fradley, and Danny McBride. It is the eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise, and a direct sequel to the 1978 film of the same name, while retconning the continuity of the previous sequels.[7] Set forty years after the original film, the plot follows Laurie Strode as she comes face-to-face with Michael Myers for a final showdown on Halloween night. Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprise their roles as Strode and Myers, respectively, with stuntman James Jude Courtney also portraying Myers. The film also stars Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, and Virginia Gardner.
After failing to develop a new Halloween film in time, Dimension Films lost the production rights, which were later obtained by Blumhouse Productions, with original co-creator John Carpenter's involvement. He served as a composer, executive producer, and creative consultant for this installment.
Principal photography commenced on January 13, 2018, in South Carolina, and concluded on February 19. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 and is scheduled for release in the United States on October 19, 2018, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics, who considered it to be a return to form for the series and lauded Curtis' performance. Feel free to download the English Subtitles to the just premiered movie.
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A Great and Terrible Beauty Lies
Everyone lies at some point, and in A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma and her friends are no exception, telling all sorts and breeds of lies. The thing is, though, that their lies are very often connected to self-preservation. Pippa lies about having epilepsy so no one will think she's damaged goods, Gemma lies about her mother's death to protect her family's reputation, and all of the girls lie to keep their forays into magic a secret. There's so much lying in this book, in fact, that you could probably argue that it's essential to the lives of each of the girls in the new Order.
Questions About Lies
Does Gemma have a good reason to lie? Does anyone in this story?
Why does Tom convince Gemma to say her mom died of cholera? Is it a good choice?
How does lying make Gemma feel? How can you tell? What makes her feel better?
Gemma only lies to protect herself from real danger since she has supernatural power.
As young women, the girls in the new Order have to lie since society doesn't accept them as their true selves.
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France opposes foreign takeover offer for supermarket chain
FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010, a sign is seen at a Carrefour supermarket in Brussels. France's government said Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, it opposes the proposed 16.2 billion-euro ($19.6 billion) takeover of French supermarket chain Carrefour by Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard.
PARIS (AP) — France's government says it opposes the proposed 16.2 billion-euro ($19.6 billion) takeover of French supermarket chain Carrefour by Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard.
Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne said Thursday on radio Europe 1 that she is "opposed to a takeover." That follows similar comments by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire who explained that the country's "food sovereignty" is at stake.
"I'm not in favor of such a deal," Le Maire said on television channel France 5 on Wednesday.
Carrefour is Europe's biggest retailer and the biggest private employer in France, with over 105,000 employees in the country.
Under French rules on controlling foreign investment, the government's approval is required in some strategic sectors, which includes food retail, Le Maire said.
Carrefour said on Wednesday in a statement that the Alimentation Couche-Tard group had approached it with a tie-up proposal and that talks are at an early stage.
Couche-Tard also confirmed it proposed an initial "friendly combination" at the price of 20 euros per share but stressed "there is no certainty at this stage that these discussions will result in any agreement or transaction."
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Snow, more snow and Santa Claus. Utter the word "Lapland" and you might imagine a place where it's Christmas all year round.
But due to its location, largely within the Arctic Circle, Lapland has extreme seasonal variations in climate. While it can be freezing cold for much of the year, visit in spring and summer and you'll witness permanent sunlight and warm temperatures, sometimes reaching 30C.
For those inhabiting this region, which spans parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, being able to adapt is key and no more so than when it comes to earning a living.
Take for example Swedish Lapland. Traditionally the endless light of summer was a crucial time for getting jobs done before the inhospitable winters set in and the lightest time of year still plays a big role in people's lives.
Mikael Suorra is from the indigenous Sami population and has grown up around the reindeer, brown bears, eagles and elk that roam this part of the world.
Mikael Suorra
Late-night bear watching tours are popular with tourists
From a base near Harads, around 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, Mr Suorra runs nature tour company Hide & See which takes tourists on local safari trips. He says the months from May to August are perfect for spotting brown bears.
"Bears are active at night and at this time of the year you can see them all day and night; even at 1am the light is good."
Mikael has built a six-person hide right in the middle of an ancient pine forest so that visitors can get the perfect camera shot of one of the region's most revered creatures.
Visitors aren't guaranteed to spot a bear – this is still a largely untamed wilderness and there are no certainties. However, even though guests pay around £300 per person, Mikael says that his visitors don't mind if they don't encounter one of these majestic animals.
"They often come here for the quietness and beauty of their surroundings and if they see a bear it's a bonus."
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Jay Bartlett runs night-time fishing trips in Swedish Lapland
The stunning natural beauty of Lapland doesn't just offer opportunities to local business people. Every summer Jay Bartlett, a Reading native, runs Fly Fish Adventures which offers salmon fishing trips for enthusiasts keen to reel in a prize specimen.
The Briton charges up to £1,250 a week but says this is comparatively cheap.
"Historically this kind of fishing's been expensive and in parts of America, Canada and Russia you can spend a hell of a lot more."
Wading into the River Torne at Kengis Bruk, just before midnight, Jay casts off, hoping for that magical tug on the end of his line. Surely though, even in the quest for the ultimate catch, fishing in the middle of the night is a bit extreme?
"When you have 24-hour sunlight it's difficult to go to bed when you know the fish of a lifetime is in the river," says Jay. "It also makes practical sense. During summer, daytime temperatures can get pretty high but the optimal is around 12-13C. Those conditions are most likely in the middle of the night."
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Rooms at the IceHotel 365 feature a variety of ice sculptures
The salmon season runs from the beginning of June to the end of August and for the rest of the time Jay is back home in Reading drumming up trade for his trips. However, he says he "counts the days" until he can go back again in June.
Tourism is an increasingly important part of Northern Sweden's economy, and up in Jukkasjarvi, 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the Ice Hotel has found a novel way of capitalising on this.
Every year around December the firm constructs a hotel from blocks of metre-thick ice from the River Torne, although come spring it melts away.
This year, however, the company launched a second ice hotel that stays open all year round, ironically by harnessing the power of sunlight.
The ice on the exterior of IceHotel 365 does melt during the summer months, but the interior remains frozen thanks to a cooling system powered by solar panels.
Per Pesula at his farm gift shop
"Every summer people turn up expecting to see the Ice Hotel but of course it's already disappeared," says hotel guide Ellen Rye-Danjelsson.
"But at the new hotel we can keep the temperature at between -5C and -8C all year round."
Sleeping surrounded by ice in the middle of summer may seem counterintuitive but this part of the world is full of surprises.
Take Per Pesula's farm in Kukkola, which is right next to the River Torne, which divides Sweden and Finland. Up here, a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, Mr Pesula lays claim to being the world's most northerly producer of cooking oil.
"People are shocked when I tell them I grow rapeseed and mustard but because of our geographical position we have an extra growing month. In the summer the 24/7 light means that the rapeseed shoots up by 2cm a day."
At his farm gift shop, Mr Pesula tells that me his burgeoning business produces around 12,000 litres of rapeseed oil a year as well as homemade mustard.
Tourists can also see eagles in Lapland
"We use 5,000 litres of the oil to power the farm machinery and I sell the rest to visitors and local supermarkets. When we've finished the pressing we use the by-product for cattle feed instead of importing soy from Brazil."
In autumn and winter the number of daylight hours falls dramatically and Lapland businesses must adapt. But for some locals the transition can be hard.
Stockholm-based occupational psychiatrist Royne Strand says that the extremes of 24-hour light in the summer and almost permanent darkness in winter can cause psychological problems.
"Some people aren't affected by the darkness but others really suffer. We see depression, stress-related disorders and many people don't perform as well at work."
The opposite can also be true.
"I also have patients who get depressed when the light comes. There is a huge expectation to get everything done and the pressure to make up for lost time."
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Indy 500: Big race picking up speed after sputtering along for years: Kelly
This year's Indianapolis 500 is being hailed as a return to form after a long downturn.
By Cathal KellySports Columnist
Sat., May 25, 2013timer5 min. read
INDIANAPOLIS—The crank that turns the wheel of legend is nostalgia.
During this weekend at the Indianapolis 500, one being widely hailed as a return to form after a long downturn, many are recalling the race of 50 years ago, won by Californian Parnelli Jones.
Car racing in general and old-school Indy in particular have thrived on outlaw reputations. Cheating's never encouraged, but it's celebrated with a wink after the fact.
Jones won the race despite a substantial oil leak through much of it. Race officials noticed the leak — a serious hazard — and prepared to black-flag Jones. When the car's owner, J.C. Agajanian, saw the steward preparing to disqualify his man, he ran over to confront him at the start/finish. In those days, flags were displayed at ground level.
Agajanian argued that the leak was dissipating. It wasn't. The owner of the car running in second place joined the fray. Agajanian lost the argument, but won the war. The steward tried several times to raise the black flag. In each instance, Agajanian grabbed hold of his arm and prevented him from waving it. This went on for several laps. Eventually, the oil fell below the level of the crack in the external tank and stopped spraying the track. Jones won the race. Agajanian became part of the legend.
It's sometimes credited to him that flags are now deployed from a crow's nest above the finish line.
This is what Indy is. It's not a car race, per se. It's a collection of stories. It's Mario Andretti's charm, A.J. Foyt's dyspepsia and Emerson Fittipaldi choosing orange juice over milk because he was a gentleman citrus farmer.
After the disastrous split of CART into IRL and Champ Car in 1996, the traditions remained intact. But people stopped caring. NASCAR came up the middle and took hold of the American racing imagination.
The Indy remained a highlight on the calendar, but on the ground it began to fade.
Newmarket native and ESPN analyst Scott Goodyear remains a favourite at the course, in large part because tough luck cost him three victories as a driver.
The Speedway's canvas is so large, spreading across a century of racing, it has room celebrate its failures just as loudly as its victors. One of the main draws here this weekend is Jigger Sirois, a driver who's best known for never qualifying for this race. That's big hearted.
Goodyear's career straddled the height of open-wheel racing's American popularity in the early '90s, and its collapse later in the decade.
"I don't think I realized at the time of the split how devastating it was to our sport," Goodyear says. "When it happened, it didn't cut it down the middle. It shattered it with a hammer."
Though the warring IRL and Champ Car series reformed into IndyCar in 2008, Goodyear recalls that for years afterward, people would still ask him when the rift would be healed.
That took its toll here in Indianapolis. The race itself has always been near capacity — north of 250,000 spectators. The two best-attended sports events in the U.S. — the Indy and NASCAR's Brickyard 400 — both take place at the Speedway. But festivities leading up to the race began to fizzle.
In the prime of his career, Goodyear travelled by helicopter to the Speedway in order to avoid the crowds. A couple of years ago, you could drive up to the gate an hour before the start of practice on the penultimate Friday and not hit any traffic. This year, that's different.
"Now we're back to needing police escorts," Goodyear says. "That went away for quite a few years."
(A helpful note to all past and future attendees: if you've sat in traffic on 16th St. for an hour on Carb Day — as we did Friday morning — those police escorts can be purchased. God bless America.)
Like many here, Goodyear can't put his finger on what has changed. The popularity of the races wrapped around the Indy remains low. A series that once mounted a stiff enough challenge to Formula 1 that the global leader made moves to block it from tracks around the globe, now only competes in two other countries — Brazil and the Honda Indy in Toronto.
In America, it's still an also-ran to NASCAR. The stock car series averages around 4 million TV viewers a race. No IndyCar event other than the 500 averages much over a million.
Outside its titular hometown, Indy is now Triple-A racing in every sense — in terms of attendance, viewership, sponsorship and the money paid to drivers.
But in the place it matters most, things are charting upward.
"The main thing that is very encouraging is that the product is here," says Mario Andretti. "There's depth in the field, and the cars themselves. . . . This series suffered tremendously from politics. Now I think that's behind us."
That's one thing, but it obscures the fact that the competition was always there. It was the perception of quality — lessened by the split and its resultant dilution of the talent — that created a second-class aura.
Formula 1 is a more difficult discipline with a more talented field, but it can also turn into a dreary processional. Out on the track, F1 is about playing defence; Indy is nothing but offence.
But why now and what next? The closest observers are left grasping.
"I don't know what the change is. I don't know that we really understand what it is. Did NASCAR understand what it is they were doing, or did it just snowball?" Goodyear wonders. "Is there a big answer? I don't think so. We don't need to hit it out of the ballpark. (The series) just needs to be there in the public eye. It can be small, but it needs to be constant."
That constancy is a ways off. What they have now is this weekend and this legend. What's required is a small burst of anti-nostalgia. A track steeped in "Do you remember whens?" needs a "Did you see that?" moment. They need new heroes, new losers and above all, new stories.
That's the point where Goodyear's figurative snowball — already present, to judge by the surging crowds this week — begins picking up speed.
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Q: $SU(2) \to I$ symmetry breaking In "Cosmic strings and other topological defects" by A. Vilenkin and E. P. S. Shellard, section 2.1.3, they detail some examples of spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the first example, they discuss the Higgs field field transforming as a two-component spinor  in the fundamental 2 representation of $SU(2)$:
$\sigma = \begin{pmatrix}
\sigma_1\\
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We then break this symmetry with a quartic potential. The little group $H$ is trivial, as there are no generators that can annihilate the vacuum expectation value. They go on to argue that $\sigma$ may couple to three gauge fields, all of which become massive after the symmetry breaking $SU(2) \to I$. Furthermore, they say it is clear that one massive Higgs boson will remain.
It is not clear to me why in this model there should be a massive Higgs, as earlier they detail the number of massive Higgs fields present will be $n - K$, where $n$ is the dimension of the real representation of G and $K$ is the number of massive gauge fields. In this case, I believe $n$ should be ($N^2 - 1 = 3$), hence no massive Higgs should emerge. Could someone explain please why in $SU(2) \to I$ symmetry breaking there will be a massive Higgs?

A: Your complex doublet field σ has 4 degrees of freedom (independent components). The number of (Goldstone bosons of SSB and hence) massive gauge fields is 3. The number of "uneaten" σ components is therefore 4-3=1. So one massive residual Higgs left.
(By contrast, the real 3-dimensional representation you seem to have erroneously considered in your counting is the adjoint one. This, not coincidentally, is K as well.)
This should, of course, be evident  in the standard treatment in most QFT textbooks detailing SSB.

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Guest Policy: Open. The public is invited to play.
Rental clubs: New Callaway sets: $20.
Outing facilities: Pavilion. There is a great shelter on #14 for hole-in-one witnesses.
Water on Course: Snack bar and vending machines at # 6 & 14.
Players' Club (rather than a Men's Club and a Women's Club). Weekly (Saturday) events and monthly tournaments.
Architect: Ron Kern & Gary Kern.
Hosted the 1994 Indiana State Open and 1997 Indianapolis Open.


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Techland Announces A New PvP Expansion For Dying Light
By Mike Sousa on December 7, 2017, 2:46PM EST
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Developer Techland today unveiled Dying Light: Bad Blood, a new PvP standalone expansion for Dying Light.
Bad Blood was created as a response to numerous fan requests for a Player-vs-Player approach to Dying Light. While retaining the core of what made people fall in love with Dying Light in the first place, Bad Blood will offer violent and dynamic online matches that blend PvP and PvE styles of gameplay.
Our aim is both to satisfy players' demands for competitive PvP gameplay and to explore new directions for Dying Light's multiplayer experience. Since Bad Blood was inspired by fan requests, we want player feedback to be an integral part of our development. That's why we're inviting Dying Light fans to take part in our Global Playtest. They can play the expansion early and share their thoughts, knowing their feedback will have a major influence on Bad Blood's development.
Tymon Smektala, Producer at Techland
Techland will allow players to participate in a Global Playtest, which is a closed online event for selected players to try out the expansion before its release. PC players can register for the playtest here.
Dying Light: Bad Blood will be launched as a standalone PvP expansion in 2018.


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Q: Credibility evaluation - how to model conditional continuous density from multiple variables of various types? I recently got dataset for 37000 households with declared income and a few dozens of other variables of various types: continuous, discrete, binary.
The task is to automatically (unsupervised) evaluate credibility of declared income based on the remaining variables: evaluate if it agrees with statistics of the sample.
Approach I have used ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08040 , general slides):

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*Normalize the income to uniform distribution on [0,1] using empirical distribution function like in copula theory. Thanks of it, modeled density of conditional distribution of this variable seems a proper way to evaluate credibility (?) Here are examples of pairwise dependencies of such normalized variables - would be rho=1 if independent, inhomogeneity allows to predict different conditional distribution of income based on the second variable (e.g. for 70 year old, extreme value is less credible):

*To combine predictions from multiple variables, I just used linear regression: of cumulant-like polynomial coefficients of predicted variable, as linear combinations of features of the remaining variables (e.g. their contribution to j-th moment) - works nicely, here are some predicted densities:
I would like to compare it with some standard approach, but don't know what to use?
KDE doesn't seem useful here (?) - what other ML methods can be used to model such complex conditional continuous probability distributions?

A: What you might try is estimating quantile regression to predict, let's say, 1st and 9th decile (or other n-tiles) of declared income given all the other information. Then, for the test data, you can treat realized income outside of predcited ntile range as unusual (procedure sort of similar to hypothesis testing). In fact, quantile regression is available in the context of many machine learning models (glms, random forets, boosting trees and so on).
Another thing you can try are Vine Copulas to estimate multivariate probability density. Then, compute marginal distribution of your income and compare it to realized values.


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George W- Bush
The disconnect between Mr. Obama's actions, and his beautiful words
The 44th president of the United States ends his term this week, succeeded by the 45th, and in a ceremony Monday at the White House honoring Major League Baseball's 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs, Barack Obama proved his usual eloquent self in describing sport's distinct role in American — indeed, global — society.
What's now up to history to judge when it comes to sport is the demonstrable disconnect between Mr. Obama's eloquence and his actions. Arguably no president in American history, none all the way back to George Washington, has been as disruptive as Mr. Obama.
Particularly in the sphere of international sport.
There can be no question, none whatsoever, that Mr. Obama talks a good game. On Monday, for instance, in the august East Room of the White House, jammed with dignitaries and Cubs fans alike, many in jerseys and caps, the president was funny, captivating, moving and profound, all of it, in a 20-minute address.
Referring to his campaign slogan in 2008 and the Cubs' World Series drought, which would ultimately extend to 108 years before the Cubs last fall defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games, Mr. Obama said Monday: "… Even I was not crazy enough to suggest that during these eight years we would see the Cubs win the World Series. But I did say that there's never been anything false about hope.
Everyone laughed and applauded as he added, "Hope — the audacity of hope."
The president, a longtime fan of the Chicago White Sox, the 2005 World Series champs from the city's South Side, went on to say:
"All you had to know about this team was encapsulated in that one moment in Game 5," meaning the World Series, "down three games to one, do or die, in front of the home fans when [the catcher] David Ross and [the pitcher] Jon Lester turned to each other and said, "I love you, man." And he said, "I love you, too." It was sort of like an Obama-Biden moment," a reference to the vice president, Joseph Biden, Jr.
Later, referring to the Cubs' victory parade: "Two days later, millions of people -- the largest gathering of Americans that I know of in Chicago. And for a moment, our hometown becomes the very definition of joy."
And, finally:
"So just to wrap up, today is, I think, our last official event — isn't it? — at the White House under my presidency. And it also happens to be a day that we celebrate one of the great Americans of all time, Martin Luther King, Jr. And later, as soon as we're done here, Michelle and I are going to go over and do a service project, which is what we do every year to honor Dr. King. And it is worth remembering — because sometimes people wonder, well, why are you spending time on sports, there's other stuff going on — that throughout our history, sports has had this power to bring us together, even when the country is divided. Sports has changed attitudes and culture in ways that seem subtle but that ultimately made us think differently about ourselves and who we were. It is a game and it is celebration, but there's a direct line between Jackie Robinson," the first African-American major league baseball player with the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1947, "and me standing here. There's a direct line between people loving Ernie Banks," the Cubs star from 1953-71, "and the city being able to come together and work together in one spirit.
"I was in my hometown of Chicago on Tuesday, for my farewell address, and I said, 'Sometimes it's not enough just to change the laws, you've got to change hearts.' And sports has a way, sometimes, of changing hearts in a way that politics or business doesn't. And sometimes it's just a matter of us being able to escape and relax from the difficulties of our days, but sometimes it also speaks to something better in us. And when you see this group of folks of different shades and different backgrounds, and coming from different communities and neighborhoods all across the country, and then playing as one team and playing the right way, and celebrating each other and being joyous in that, that tells us a little something about what America is and what America can be.
"So it is entirely appropriate that we celebrate the Cubs today, here in this White House, on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday because it helps direct us in terms of what this country has been and what it can be in the future."
These are, genuinely, lovely and moving sentiments. Thank you, Mr. President.
Did Mr. Obama's administration prove true to those sentiments?
During most of his two terms, it can be argued, Mr. Obama — or by way of extension, deputies in his executive branch — used sports to project the full power and authority of the United States, both by way of action and, in the case of the president himself, omission. The government ranged far afield in projecting distinctly American notions of equality and morality in sports, some of the very values Mr. Obama said Monday "America can be," though it remains far from clear the roughly 200 other nations in the world can or should be like the United States, or want to be. The U.S. government pushed its views of the law in the anti-doping arena. And, of course, though there had been no cry to do so, the U.S. government saw fit to deputize itself to police international soccer.
Was this all triggered by the International Olympic Committee's emphatic rejection of Mr. Obama in 2009?
Recently having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the president went to Copenhagen that October to lobby for Chicago, his hometown, then bidding for the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago failed to make it out of the first round, fourth of four, losing to Rio. Madrid and Tokyo were also in the race.
"Other than people who like to cheer, 'We're No. 4! We're No. 4!' I don't know how this is anything but really embarrassing," Republican strategist Rich Galen told CNN at the time, adding that Obama's failed pitch would "probably be the joke on Capitol Hill for weeks to come."
Had Mr. Obama ever before suffered a defeat, indeed a rejection, so intense and so personal? Was it that Mr. Obama was himself stung? Or was it his longtime, and protective, aide, Valerie Jarrett? Or both? Or others in the president's close circle as well?
Seven-plus years ago, the president played off Chicago's Olympic loss. He said it was "always a worthwhile endeavor to promote and boost the United States."
His real feelings may have emerged in an interview published this past October in New York magazine:
"So we fly out there. Subsequently, I think we've learned that [the] IOC's decisions are similar to FIFA's decisions: a little bit cooked. We didn't even make the first cut, despite the fact that, by all the objective metrics, the American bid was the best."
As anyone who has spent the better part of a lifetime in politics can attest, "objective metrics" often mean nothing. Same for just four hours around the IOC, which is how long Mr. Obama was on the ground in Copenhagen that October morning. How could the president of the United States not have known that?
And what has been the fallout since?
— 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016: Olympics, Winter and Summer. Four editions of the Olympics during Mr. Obama's two terms, four opportunities to make an appearance, two — in Canada in 2010, the United Kingdom in 2012 — in countries as close and friendly to American interests as they might get, hockey rivalries or words like "trunk" and "boot" aside. Mr. Obama shows in none of the four. (Michelle Obama went to London.) Compare: President Bush attended the 2002 Salt Lake and 2008 Beijing Games. President Clinton made the 1996 Atlanta and Hillary Clinton the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
— September 2013: Thomas Bach is elected IOC president. Since, Mr. Bach has met more than 100 heads of government and state. But not Mr. Obama. In October 2015, Mr. Bach and most everyone in senior Olympic leadership traveled to Washington for a conference. Mr. Obama did not deem it worthy of his time. Late in the event, Mr. Biden — clearly pressured to show up on behalf of the administration — made a seven-minute cameo.
— February 2014: Mr. Obama, in response to a Russian anti-gay propaganda law, decides to try to stick it to his friends in the Kremlin by sending to the Sochi Games U.S. delegations for the opening and closing ceremonies that include a number of gay athletes, including the tennis star Billie Jean King. Why a tennis star, even one as superlative as Ms. King, ought to be featured at a Winter Games event is yet to be explained.
Mr. Bach said in opening the Sochi Olympics, in a shot at Mr. Obama, "Have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful, direct political dialogue and not on the back of the athletes."
— 2015, FIFA indictments. This is not to say that there wasn't wrongdoing on multiple levels in and around the international soccer scene. The relevant question for history is otherwise. Outside the World Cup, soccer is far from baseball, basketball and especially football in the United States. And by far the majority of those accused have not been American citizens. The Justice Department, when it brings an explosive case such as this, does so to score political points as much to make a case in court. So: why so important for the FBI, IRS and the Attorney General of the United States herself to make this a federal matter?
— May 2016: federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, from the U.S. Attorney's office serving what's called the Eastern District of New York, have opened an investigation into allegations of doping by top Russian athletes, the New York Times reports. For those keeping score at home: Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, used to head that Brooklyn office. For those further keeping score: this is the same Justice Department that brought cases sparked by allegations of doping against the likes of baseball stars Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, couldn't seal the deal, but now believes considerable taxpayer resource is well spent pursuing Russians?
President-elect Donald Trump, meanwhile, has already spoken by phone with Mr. Bach, expressing support for the Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Games. Paris and Budapest are also in the race. The IOC will pick the 2024 site in September at an assembly in Lima, Peru.
Mr. Trump takes office on Friday. For sure, he has a range of priorities to pick from. If he decides that one of them is making new friends, and fast, in international sports, he could make it plain to his pick for attorney general, the current U.S. senator Jeff Sessions, the Republican from Alabama, that the Brooklyn investigation ought to be dropped, and fast.
Like, why is the United States government interested in doping by Russian athletes?
Especially an administration directed by Mr. Trump, who has shown little to less than zero interest in pursuing allegations the Russians might have played an active role in pre-election hacking?
Mr. Trump wasn't at the White House Monday. Not his moment. But in the Ricketts family, which owns the Cubs, here nonetheless was a little slice of America as it is right now: Todd Ricketts, Mr. Trump's pick for deputy commerce secretary, stood to one side of Mr. Obama while on the other stood Mr. Ricketts' sister, Laura, who during the campaign raised significant funds for Mrs. Clinton.
This past summer, as he was heading off to vacation at Martha's Vineyard, the remote Cape Cod locale, Mr. Obama, with a nod to Mr. Trump, had this to say as the Rio Games were just about to get underway:
"In a season of intense politics, let's cherish this opportunity to come together around one flag."
"In a time of challenge around the world, let's appreciate the peaceful competition and sportsmanship we'll see, the hugs and high-fives and the empathy and understanding between rivals who know we share a common humanity."
Beautiful words. But — just that. Just words.
Tagged: Barack Obama, Barry Bonds, Bill Clinton, Billie Jean King, David Ross, Donald Trump, Ernie Banks, George W- Bush, George Washington, Hillary Clinton, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Sessions, Joe Biden, Jon Lester, Laura Ricketts, Loretta Lynch, Martin Luther King Jr-, Michelle Obama, Rich Galen, Roger Clemens, Thomas Bach, Todd Ricketts, Valerie Jarrett
The Olympics and President-elect Donald J. Trump
A Romanian friend and I were talking the other day about the campaign for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
If Paris wins, he said, it will be a thoroughly French Olympics. But if it's Los Angeles — that, he said, would be an international Games with the potential to prove truly transformational for the Olympic movement in the 21st century.
Maybe Tuesday's election of Donald J. Trump has changed everything.
Or maybe — actually, probably — it has changed nothing.
Take a deep breath. Things tend to work out.
Are there any guarantees? No. Promises? No. But that's not the way life is. And, again, things tend to work out.
Did Trump say all kinds of rude, belittling and worse things during the campaign? Absolutely. Since his election, has he struck a more conciliatory, encompassing tone? For sure. On Thursday at the White House, he met with President Barack Obama, the president saying, "I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we are now going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the country succeeds."
The last time this sort of weirdness settled over a significant portion of the United States if not beyond, it was January 1981, and Ronald Reagan, a former movie star, was being inaugurated. We all lived through that. Indeed, Reagan was president during the 1984 Summer Games in LA, which all but saved the movement. How much did he personally have to do with those Games? Very little.
If you stop and pause for just a moment, it's actually quite possible a Trump presidency could be good for the Los Angeles 2024 bid. The committee issued a statement Wednesday that congratulated the president-elect, noted the bid's "strong bipartisan support at the local, state and federal level" and said it was looking forward to working with Trump to "deliver a 'new games for a new era.' "
OK, good PR move. Even so, the Olympics, and particularly the bid process, is all about connections. Here's what that statement didn't — couldn't — say:
Angela Ruggiero, the U.S. women's ice hockey star, is now chair of the International Olympic Committee's athletes' commission. She is also a former contestant on "The Apprentice," the TV show that Trump starred in for years. Trump was so impressed with her that, afterward, he offered her a job.
So — now the IOC has a direct conduit to the president-elect of the United States. What more do you want?
IOC president Thomas Bach on Wednesday offered a brief statement to Associated Press that said, "Let me congratulate President-elect Trump on his victory and wish him all the best for his term in office for all the people of the United States and of the world."
Would it have been "better" for the American 2024 effort if Hillary Clinton had prevailed in the electoral college as well as the popular vote?
To be sure, she was, in Olympic circles, something of a known quantity. She led the U.S. delegation to the 1994 Lillehammer Games. She and President Bill Clinton led the American side in Atlanta in 1996. When the 2012 Games campaign was going on, Hillary Clinton, then a senator from New York, traveled to the IOC session in Singapore to lobby for New York.
No disrespect intended whatsoever to Mrs. Clinton but New York got crushed and Atlanta is hardly remembered fondly in many senior Olympic circles.
At any rate, there's little question that California wanted Hillary. The state went for Mrs. Clinton by roughly 2-1, 61 to 33 percent. The U.S. Olympic Committee turned to LA for 2024 for a variety of reasons — one of which is precisely that California is different, about as far away from Washington, D.C., another potential 2024 candidate, as possible. Far away -- literally and figuratively.
Reflecting on Trump's election, Stanford political science professor Bruce Cain told the New York Times, referring to California, "We will go back into the mode that we were in during the Bush administration," meaning George W. Bush, "which is we were the kind of the rebel state."
We got through the Bush years, too, it should be pointed out. The American experiment did not collapse in on itself. For what it's worth, Bush is a huge proponent of the Olympics, traveling to Beijing in 2008 to watch Michael Phelps and the rest of the U.S. team after opening the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
At any rate, who is the former governor of California? Arnold Schwarzenegger. We all lived through that, too.
Who is replacing Trump as host of the successor show "The Celebrity Apprentice," his debut set for January 2017, just a few days before Trump is due to be inaugurated as president? Schwarzenegger.
People, the world turns in mysterious ways.
Here are some factors that remain immutable:
-- The United States is not Russia nor China, where the strong hand of the national government plays a key Olympic role.
— As the IOC well knows, western governments have a rude habit of change in the seven years between the time a city wins the Games and the opening ceremony. See, for instance, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Greece, Japan and others, including South Korea, site of the 2018 Winter Games, where hundreds of thousands are expected this weekend in the streets in protest against the current president.
And, for that matter, the United States.
Who knows whether Trump would even still be president in 2024?
— The recent demise of the Rome 2024 bid proves emphatically that the mayor — who killed off that bid despite national government and Olympic committee support — is more important in the Olympic bid process than anyone at the national level.
LA mayor Eric Garcetti is a rock star. Indeed, with Clinton's defeat, a loss that simultaneously made plain how few young Democratic stars there are, Garcetti is uniquely positioned to assume an even more prominent profile.
What tends to win Olympic votes is connection and relationship. The USOC chairman, Larry Probst, and chief executive, Scott Blackmun, along with Ruggiero and longtime IOC member Anita DeFrantz have spent the past several years seeking just that. Along with, now, Garcetti and LA 24 bid leader Casey Wasserman.
For all this, if you were the bid committees in Paris and Budapest, the two remaining 2024 candidates, you might well be feeling suddenly frisky at the prospect of a Trump presidency.
To be super-American about this, and quote Lee Corso, the former American college football coach turned ESPN television personality: not so fast, my friend.
One way to interpret Tuesday's result is that it makes for a rebuke of multiculturalism and globalization — the very things purportedly at the core of the Olympic soul. If that's the way the IOC ends up looking at it, that's going to be very tough for the LA effort. Or, simply put, if the members want to punish the United States for its choice of president -- see Bush 43 -- that's going to be tough, too.
Perhaps, though — "drain the swamp" and all that — it's more a rejection of Washington and its elites, and by extension global elites. Look, there is no bunch more perceived as a bunch of global elites more than the IOC, a point proven repeatedly in recent months and years with western European rejection of bids in — deep breath — Munich, Hamburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Krakow, St. Moritz, Vienna and, now, Rome.
This is a matter about which the IOC ought to be paying rapt attention. Its increasingly urgent mandate: to remain relevant in our obviously changing world.
So American voters just elected a rhetoric-spewing avowed nationalist?
This bears all the signals of the second act in a global three-act play.
Act One: Brexit. To put an Olympic spin on it, the British vote to leave the European Union came in the aftermath of what many consider the finest Summer Games in recent memory, in London in 2012.
Two: Trump.
Three: next year's presidential election in France. Would anyone be surprised if the third domino fell, with the candidacy of Marine Le Pen?
Her tweet Tuesday, even before all the votes had been counted stateside:
https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/796235915387699200
Translation: "Congratulations to the new U.S. president Donald Trump and to the free American people."
As for Hungary:
This past summer, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said, referring to Trump, that the ideas of the "upstanding American presidential candidate" and his opposition to "democracy export" could also apply in Europe. Orbán, who has ordered fences built at the Hungarian border in a bid to stop migrants, also said in July, "I am not Donald Trump's campaigner," adding, "I myself could not have drawn up better what Europe needs."
Amid the Trump victory, here was Orbán on Facebook:
Then, speaking Thursday at a European conference, he echoed, "We are two days after the big bang and still alive. What a wonderful world. This also shows that democracy is creative and innovative."
In even more-important news within the Olympic bubble, the government is due Jan. 1 to take over much of the authority of the Hungarian Olympic Committee. The IOC has long frowned on such intrusions in what it likes to call "autonomy," meaning appropriate independence from government.
France is not Hungary. But with the French Olympic committee comes a big dose of French government. That's the way things are.
That's the farthest thing from an issue in the United States. By 1978 law, Congress maintains USOC oversight. But the USOC must run and fund itself.
If all this makes anyone squirm about the rise of "populism" if not nationalism, if there is suddenly a tinge of forlorn regret for the Obama years, let's have — once more — an Olympic reality check.
Copenhagen, 2009. The president is the new winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He comes to Denmark to lobby for his hometown, Chicago, in the race for the 2016 Games. Chicago gets kicked to the curb in the first round, with fewer votes even than New York got four years before.
"… I think we've learned," the president said in an interview published last month in New York magazine, "that [the] IOC's decisions are similar to FIFA's decisions: a little bit cooked. We didn't even make the first cut, despite the fact that, by all the objective metrics, the American bid was the best."
Coincidence or not: since then, it's Obama's Justice Department that has gone after FIFA and has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of state-sponsored Russian doping. Coincidence or not: Loretta Lynch, the former head of Justice's Eastern District of New York, the office that is leading the charge, is now the attorney general of the United States. She reports to Obama.
It was Obama, recall, who opted to make a political statement in advance of the 2014 Sochi Games by sending a U.S. delegation that was to be headed by the tennis star Billie Jean King and two other athletes. King had to bow out of the opening ceremony delegation because of her mother's death; she later made it to the closing ceremony.
In three years as IOC president, Bach has met with more than 100 heads of government and state. A notable exception: Obama.
Politicians come and go. That is a vivid lesson of Olympic history. The issue that matters is elemental: where is the best place for the Olympic movement to reimagine its future? That starts with 2024.
Ask your kids.
If you can get them away from their election chatter — and how it's going to impact their lives, the very currency with the very audience the IOC is chasing — on Snapchat.
Snapchat — which of course is based in the hipster LA neighborhood of Venice Beach.
Tagged: Angela Ruggiero, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bruce Cain, Donald J- Trump, Eric Garcetti, George W- Bush, Hillary Clinton, Larry Probst, Loretta Lynch, Marine Le Pen, Michael Phelps, Ronald Reagan, Scott Blackmun, Snapchat, Thomas Bach, Viktor Orbán
Salt Lake 2022: not a chance
As Salt Lake City celebrates the tenth anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympics, local authorities have announced they intend to explore the idea of bidding again for the 2022 or 2026 Winter Games. Addressing supporters at the Olympic cauldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium was re-lit last week for a few minutes, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said, according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, "We need to pursue this [exploration] to see if there is real opportunity there."
I can help, Mr. Governor.
There is no chance Salt Lake City can win. Zero. Zip. Nada. You can stop right now.
Save everyone the money, the time and the worry.
This is not -- repeat, not -- a slam on Salt Lake, or Utah. Salt Lake is cool. Park City and Deer Valley are beautiful. So is Soldier Hollow.
This is, instead, a blunt assessment of the reality of the International Olympic Committee bid game. I have covered every IOC bid contest since 1999. I spent a great deal of 2011 reporting on the 2018 Winter Games contest, won by Pyeongchang, South Korea, going to each of the three stops on the Evaluation Commission tour and then the vote itself last July in Durban, South Africa.
Mr. Governor, not once since the 2002 Games closed has even one IOC member said to me -- you know what, I really want to go back to Salt Lake City.
That is why you have no chance.
Do you know where the members of the IOC consistently say they would want to go?
San Francisco. And Los Angeles. For the Summer Games.
In polling done for the 2012 New York and 2016 Chicago bids, IOC members consistently told their American friends that where they really wanted to go was California. The IOC is Eurocentric; San Francisco is a magic name in Europe and yet it has never staged the Games. LA has played host twice, in 1932 and 1984, but Southern California, with Hollywood, Disneyland and the surf and volleyball culture of the beach, nonetheless remains a potent draw.
Mr. Governor, another point to consider:
Salt Lake was an Olympic city in 2002 but since then, what? The IOC is back in the United States this week for a conference it stages every four years called "Women and Sport." President Jacques Rogge is in attendance. Some 800 people are with him. Where's this conference? Los Angeles.
Is anyone from Utah in attendance here in Los Angeles? Um, still looking.
Three years ago, an Olympic-related conference, SportAccord, was held amid the IOC's policy-making executive board meeting. Where? Denver.
What has Salt Lake done for the IOC since 2002?
This, again, Mr. Governor, is why Salt Lake has no chance.
Though you undoubtedly have been briefed, Mr. Governor, that Denver and Reno-Tahoe are your domestic competitors for 2022, and that Bozeman, Mont., may be interested as well, the real play for the United States may well be California in 2024.
Obviously, a 2024 candidacy would likely take 2026 out of the mix.
If, that is, there's any bid in play at all in the next few years.
There's just no urgency to bid, and here's hoping someone on your exploratory committee by now has told you this.
For starters, it's not at all critical for the Games to be back in the United States. Sure, it would be nice if the Games were back. But it's not an imperative -- not politically, economically or culturally. NBC just agreed to pay $4.38 billion for the rights to televise the Games through 2020; none of those Games is in the United States yet the sales price was hardly depressed.
Moreover, the U.S. Olympic Committee and IOC are locked in a long-running dispute over the 12.75 percent share of television rights and 20 percent cut of marketing rights the USOC gets from the IOC. The two sides are talking but progress has been halting.
There's no bid until there's a new deal, and it's not clear a deal will get done while Rogge is in office. He's president until September, 2013. That doesn't leave a lot of time to get a bid together in time for a 2015 vote for 2022; a bid these days typically runs north of $50 million.
As for Denver: they have to contend in Colorado with the 1970s Olympic give-back (still); the haul up to the mountains from Denver proper; and the environmental and financial issues inherent in building a bobsled track. Like, do we need another one in the American West when there's one next door in Utah?
Reno increasingly seems to be trying to package itself with California -- the Nevada-California border is right there -- and with San Francisco, four hours away.
Which only begs the question, right? Why go to Reno when you're inevitably drawn to San Francisco? That's one of the challenges the Reno bid is going to have to answer. Even in 1960, when the Winter Games were held in Squaw Valley, in the Sierras by the California-Nevada line, building on the same idea the Reno team is floating for 2022, the IOC held its session down in San Francisco.
It is true that the United States has become a Winter Games power and the finances of the movement have made staging the Winter Olympics a much more attractive option than ever before. But the primary play is, and always will be, the Summer Games.
There are lots of reasons San Francisco has never staged the Games. The politics are complicated; same for the traffic. But perhaps the main issue has always been, what about a stadium?
Earlier this month, the NFL announced it would give the 49ers $200 million toward a $1 billion, 68,500-seat stadium in suburban Santa Clara. Site work began in January. The stadium could open as soon as the 2014 season, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Unclear is whether the stadium could be configured for track and field or whether it's football-only.
Let's get back to Salt Lake. All the it-can't-happen evidence in this column -- people in Utah surely stand ready to dismiss it, eager to point to "sustainability" and to Mitt.
It is indisputably true that the facilities that helped Salt Lake stage the 2002 Games are still there. The airport; the venues; the mass-transit system; Interstate 80; all of that.
For one, come 2022, that bobsled track -- just to pick one venue - is going to be 20 years old. It's not going to take some upgrading? That's not going to cost some money?
Beyond which -- those kinds of venues, facilities and things on the ground are what the IOC calls the "technical" stuff.
The technical stuff doesn't win votes. New York had a great technical bid and got 19 votes, eliminated in the second round. Chicago had a great technical bid and got bounced in the first round, with 18 votes.
The IOC likes to talk about "sustainable" Olympics. Then it goes and awards Games to London (2012 - huge construction project), Sochi, Russia (2014 - huge construction project), Rio (2016 - huge construction project) and Pyeongchang (2018 - huge construction project).
Someday, perhaps, that string will be snapped. But why would it be Salt Lake?
Olympic bids are won on emotion, on story-telling, on connection.
The memories that we Americans have of those Games as a patriotic expression of can-do just five months after 9/11?
Within the IOC, "Salt Lake" is still remembered for the bid scandal, for the sense of having to move within a post-9/11 armed camp, even for President Bush's addition to the opening-the-Games formula. He added, "On behalf of a proud, determined and grateful nation" to the traditional formula, "I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City," and within the protocol-sensitive IOC you bet they still remember.
If the bet within Salt Lake City is that Mitt Romney, now running for the Republican nomination for U.S. president, would once again be cast as savior -- the position here is clear.
Romney, along with Fraser Bullock and the rest of the SLOC team, and the volunteers, deserve enormous credit for turning around the 2002 Olympics. The situation when he was brought in was, if not grim, pretty close to it. He and his team -- and everyone in Utah who contributed -- deserve full recognition for the success of the 2002 Olympics, and the $100 million surplus.
"I'm delighted that Utah is thinking about bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics," Romney said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "Our great nation is wonderfully suited to host the world's greatest sporting competition."
It's quite a proposition, though, that Romney as president would sway the IOC. First, he would have to get the Republican nomination; then be elected president of the United States; then convince the IOC. That's a lot of dominoes.
Remember that President Obama went to Copenhagen in 2009 to lobby the IOC on behalf of Chicago, his hometown, and to little effect.
Presumably, Romney would be greeted by the IOC as an Olympic insider. Then again, it's the IOC. One never assumes.
Tagged: Barack Obama, Fraser Bullock, Gary Herbert, George W- Bush, Jacques Rogge, Mitt Romney


I would like to speak out on the dedication of Paul Gorski, who is running for the Winnebago County Board District 11.
Paul was there for the citizens of The Special Service Area in the Village of Cherry Valley. When we decided to petition against a 1.6 million dollar tax levy, he gave us guidance as to where to go for information and help. He voluntarily shared his time and knowledge with the petitioners and offered help with research and procedures.
Paul also, voluntarily, stepped up to the plate with helping the "Friends of the Kishwaukee River" and promoting "Love Your River" day. He spent endless hours with the committee gathering information and developing a wonderful website just for Friends. This was, and is, a great help in promoting the sustainability of one of our wonderful natural resources, the Kishwaukee River. The dedication Paul showed toward this project is forever appreciated and is a credit to his civic commitment.
Vote for Paul Gorski! He does more than just be in office. He helps on a one-on-one basis. That type of person is worth a lot to our community.


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Q: Why socket implementation is slower than requests? I have a python 3.4 script fetching multiple web pages. At first, I used requests library to fetch pages:
def get_page_requsets(url):
    r = requests.get(url)
    return r.content

Above code gives an average speed of 4.6 requests per second.
To increase speed I rewrote function to use sockets library:
def get_page_socket(url):

    url = urlparse(url)
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    sock.connect((url.netloc, 80))
    req = '''
GET {} HTTP/1.1\r
Host: {}\r
Connection: Keep-Alive\r
\r
    '''.format(url.path, url.host, uagent)
    sock.send(req.encode())
    reply = b''
    while True:
        chunk = sock.recv(65535)
        if chunk:
            reply += chunk
        else:
            break
    sock.close()
    return reply

And average speed fell to 4.04 requests per second. I was not hoping for drammatic speed boost, but was hoping for slight increase, as socket is more low level.
Is this library issue or I'm doing something wrong?

A: The slowness is probably simply because you are doing HTTP wrong: You issue a HTTP/1.1 request and even explicitly specify connection keep-alive (not even needed because this is implicit with HTTP/1.1). But then you just read from the socket and expect the server to close the connection after the request is done. But the server will not do that, it will instead wait for more requests from you because of keep-alive and only close the connection after some time of inactivity, which depends on the server configuration. You are lucky to connect to a server with a very short timeout where you are still getting 4.04 requests per seconds, with  others servers it would be only few requests per minute with your code.
If you want to make a simple HTTP request with a plain socket use HTTP/1.0 and do not use keep-alive. Then you could read just until the server closes and you also don't have to deal with chunked transfer encoding which was introduced with HTTP/1.1. You also don't have to deal with compressed encoding because you don't specifically accept them (but some broken servers will send them anyway).
But, while this will make your code faster than it is now, it will not be as fast as requests, because all this keep-alive, compression etc was added to improve speed. To re-implement all of this correctly is not that easy, so I recommend you stay with the requests library.

A: requests uses urllib3, which handles HTTP connections very efficiently. Connections to the same server are re-used wherever possible, saving you the socket connection and teardown costs:

*

*Re-use the same socket connection for multiple requests, with optional client-side certificate verification. See: HTTPConnectionPool and HTTPSConnectionPool

In addition, urllib3 and requests advertise to the server that they can handle compressed responses; with compression you can transfer more data in the same amount of time, leading to more requests per second.

*

*Supports gzip and deflate decoding. See: decode_gzip() and decode_deflate()

urllib3 uses sockets too (albeit via the http.client module); there is little point in reinventing this wheel. Perhaps you should think about fetching URLs in parallel instead, using threading or multiprocessing, or eventlets; the requests author has a gevents-requests integration package that can help there. Another way of achieving concurrency would be to use asyncio combined with aiohttp as HTTP requests are mostly waiting for network I/O.


The United States of America is truly one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Why experience the hassle of traveling overseas when there's so much variety right here at home!
Don't believe me? Take a look at the best road trips in America and embark and an epic trip the next time you have some vacation days. You won't regret it.
You can't have a list of the best and most scenic road trips in the US without mentioning Hawaii. Just remember that you will need a camera and plenty of time to see the sights.
The Road to Hana is 50 miles long and will take you along Maui's northeastern shore. Along the way, you will see beautiful beaches, waterfalls, banana patches, and more. With so much to see, you'll have to stop and take pictures every few minutes.
If you love bourbon, a trip on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail is for you. But, you'll want to make sure to invite your friends on this particular road trip. With so many chances to sample delicious bourbon, you'll need plenty of designated drivers. Plus, you'll get to see the stunning countryside that has made Kentucky famous.
A road trip on Skyline Drive will take you through Shenandoah National Park. This park sits on 200,000 acres and has tons to see and do. It offers breathtaking vistas, awe-inspiring waterfalls, wooded hollows and more. You can also take a hike on the Appalachian Trail to see a wide variety of wildlife including black bears.
Have a love affair with wine? If so, a trip on the 29 mile long Silverado Trail must be added to your bucket list. This route will take you through the wine country's lesser known region. In other words, you won't have to deal with crowds as you sample what the local wineries have to offer.
A road trip through the Beartooth Mountain Range is perfect for a weekend getaway. This 68 mile journey takes about three hours to complete and will lead you to the gates of Yellowstone National Park, one of the most picturesque parks in the U.S. and the home of the famous Old Faithful Geyser.
This stunning 50 mile road will take you from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. En route, there is much to see so keep your camera ready. Make sure that you visit a couple of the historic mining towns in the area. Currently, many are being revamped into premiere destinations for dining, music, and art.
Regardless of where you begin on this journey, just two hours on 89A will set your imagination on fire. This road beautifully showcases some of the most awe-inspiring natural wonders in the world including the largest hole in the country, stunning red rock formations, and much more.
Going on a road trip on the highest highway in Texas will give you plenty of chances to see gorgeous scenery. These include stunning rock formations, beautiful wildflowers, and majestic mountains. Just remember to stop by the Prada store in the small town of Marfa. Although it's more artistic concept than retail store, it's still worth a trip.
Taking a trip along the northwestern part of Lake Michigan will enthrall your senses. On this 116 mile long journey, you will see lush countryside, quaint little towns and more. But, the best part is that you will end up at the exquisite Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. This park was named "The Most Beautiful Park in America" by Good Morning America viewers. With its majestic sand dunes and picturesque beaches, it's easy to see why.
The drive to Big Sur will reveal sheer cliffs, serene waterfalls, and beautiful shorelines. In other words, you'll want to bring your camera along to take plenty of pictures. Plus, the twists and turns on the 140 mile trip to Big Sur is an adventure all in itself.
What did you think of the road trips listed above? Are there any other places that you would recommend? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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V.24 – zalecenie ITU-T, które specyfikuje sygnały dwukierunkowego interfejsu przesyłu danych (opis gniazda i rozłożenie sygnałów na końcówkach) pomiędzy dwoma urządzeniami: DTE (Data Terminal Equipment - urządzenie końcowe, terminal) i DCE (Data Communications Equipment - urządzenie transmisyjne, jak np. modem).

Charakterystyki elektryczne sygnałów definiowane są w zaleceniu V.28.
Standard ten znany jest także pod nazwą V.24/V.28 RS-232.

Zobacz też
 V.28
 V.35
 RS-232

Linki zewnętrzne
 Zalecenie na stronach ITU-T

Standardy telekomunikacyjne

fr:V.24

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Frank Fine founded Lieber's Luggage in 1978. "I was a single parent and the retail business gave me the flexibility to balance my family and work responsibilities. My cousin was a luggage dealer in Cleveland, Ohio and I thought 'I could do that!'" That was also the source of the name Lieber's.
In 1998 Frank turned over the reins of the store to his wife Leslee. Since then he has focused on consulting and interim management services for non-profits, trade associations and small businesses. He continues to be active in store's marketing and planning processes and oversees accounting and bookkeeping.
Frank holds a BA from Boston University, a Masters in Architecture from UNM, and a MBA from UCLA. He and Leslee were married in 1988 and love traveling together. He plays duplicate and tournament bridge as much as he can!
He has served on numerous boards and committees for local and national non-profits, currently serving with Roadrunner Food Bank and Accion. In 2010 he was honored as the national Travel Goods Association's Person of the Year.
FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION: Paris! Leslee and I start most of our European travel in Paris and then go off to new destinations. But from our first trip together Paris has always been special to us. It really is the city of lovers.
FAVORITE NEW MEXICO DESTINATION: Taos. It captures so much of the spirit and beauty of New Mexico.
MY #1 TRAVEL TIP: For international travel, enroll in GOES (the U.S Government's Global Online Enrollment System). It makes entering back into the country a breeze. Plus it also makes you part of Trusted Traveler program. Carry your Global Entry card and all smart cards – credit cards, passport and the like, in an RFID sleeve or wallet to protect your identity from wireless thievery!


I can run from cd but when attempting to run from hard disk I get these or similar errors.Any idea in which direction I should look to solve them? I am familiar with computers but new to linux.
Were you able to complete the install and this is what comes up on boot or is this what comes up when you try to install?
We need a little more detail about what is going on before we can really help.
Also, if you have installed, have you tried booting up in the Recovery mode? It's the second listing on the GRUB.
I have never had a working installation.Once I was able to run from the cd but when I chose to install it froze.I read that the nforce 3 chipset might be a problem. I have changed bios settings and tried the 32 and 64 bit disks.
was finally able to install . Had to set master/slave settings on cd and hard drive AND have them plugged into specific cable connections. Cable select did not seem to work and reversing the connections did unpredictable things. I am trying to figure out why, but for now I am up and running.


Want to create your own Flash demo of NetBeans IDE functionality? Here's some steps to get you producing slick, professional looking demos with free tools.
This tutorial uses Wink, a great free tool for creating Flash demos.
The NetBeans team has put together a set of templates for callouts, buttons, preloaders, and control bars. Unzip the ZIP file straight over your DebugMode installation folder (usually C:\Program Files\DebugMode on Windows machines). To verify that you unzipped to the right folder, check to make sure that all the button images (i.e., nb_next.png) are placed in the DebugMode\Wink\Buttons folder.
Set your IDE window to be 800x600.
Only capture a 800x600 area of the IDE. For example, if you're just showing Source Editor features, you can just capture the Source Editor area and not the rest of the IDE.
Use a larger IDE window (for example, 1024x768) and then resize the Flash demo to 800x600. If you are going to do this, set the IDE to use a larger font size by starting it with the --fontsize 14 switch.
Note: You can use an application like AutoSizer to automatically resize your window.
Since you're only capturing a small area of your screen, you need to make sure that any menus and dialogs that you open appear in the capture area. Move the IDE window to the middle of the screen and open a few large dialogs (like the new Project wizard) to make sure they don't run outside of the IDE area. When you open contextual menus, try to right-click in the upper left of the Source Editor so that the menus also stay inside the IDE window area.
Although you can do a lot of processing after you've captured the demo, it's always best to know exactly what you're going to show before you start. If you're working from a text tutorial on netbeans.org, go through the tutorial several times to make your movements smooth. If creating something totally new, write out a script for yourself to follow.
You've installed Wink and set up the IDE for capture. Let's get going.
Make sure the Timed Capture Rate is set 5 frames/second. This is important so that you demo looks smooth without producing a huge file size.
A green box also outlines the area that will be captured. If you are capturing the whole IDE window, click Choose and then select the IDE window. The capture box adjusts automatically. If you are only capturing part of the IDE window, adjust the box by hand. Unless you plan to shrink the final flash movie to a smaller size, the size should not exceed 800x600.
Minimize the dialog to tray or move it out of the way and start capturing your demo.
Time-driven captures (Shift-Pause) Time-driven captures just takes a lot of snapshots of everything that happens on the screen. When Wink is taking a time-driven capture, the system tray icon displays a flashing box .
Input-driven captures (Alt-Shift-Pause) Input driven captures only take a snapshot everytime you click or type something. Wink then fills in all the motion between snapshots. When Wink is taking an input-driven capture, the system tray icon changes to .
So which to use? It depends on your style. Time-driven captures are more natural for most people, but you end up with a lot of excess mouse motions that you then have to edit out.
Input-driven captures are cleaner, but the timing is often too fast in some places and too slow in others. Also, when something happens that wasn't caused by a mouse click or typing on the keyboard, Wink misses it. For example, when you open a menu Wink takes a snapshot, but if you then open a submenu by just hovering your pointer over it, Wink doesn't take a snapshot. You can resolve this by manually forcing a snapshot with the Pause button.
The best approach depends on you. I recommend taking time-driven captures, but being very careful to only capture things that are part of the script. Whenever I'm not sure, I hit Shift-Pause to pause the capture and plan out what I'm going to do next. As we'll see later, cleaning up the Wink demo is not too difficult, either.
Note: Wink often hangs when working with very long files. If you're doing a long demo (longer than five minutes) consider splitting the demo up into several Wink projects. You can then paste each project into one master project.
Now you've captured your demo and are back in the main Wink window, shown below. As you can see, there are thumbnails of each snapshot on the bottom. You can delete, copy, and rearrange snapshots as you like. The right sidebar lets you enter callouts, buttons, and other elements.
First let's see what your demo looks like with no post-capture editing.
Press F7 or click the button. The first time you render your demo, the project settings dialog box appears.
Set the Frame Rate to 20, set the output file name, and click OK. Wink creates the SWF file and a sample HTML file in which to display it.
Press F8 or click the button. The demo is displayed in your web browser.
Note that after the first time you render, F7 overwrites your old SWF file. If you want to change the output file name or frame rate, click the button.
It is very important that you remove any stray mouse motions. In a flash demo, especially one without sound, the user assumes that each mouse motion is important and easily gets confused when the mouse moves for no apparent reason.
Select any frames that need to be removed and press Delete. You can hold down the Shift key and use the arrow keys to "run" through your demo almost at real time. Even if your cursor does not stray from the intended path much, you can remove any excess frames between the start point and the end point. Wink will fill in the cursor motion between the two spots and it will look much smoother.
Whenever you are about to perform an action that has significance, you should introduce it with a callout, as shown below.
Copying and pasting a callout that is already correctly configured. This is the recommended method. Open the DebugMode/Wink/nb-wink-template.wnk project and copy and paste any of the callouts there.
Click the Textbox checkbox in the right sidebar. Then click the button to select the correct callout. Choose any of the nb_name callouts. You also have to adjust the font to be 18pt bold and center aligned.
Note: If you do not see these options, make sure you correctly installed the NetBeans templates.
Copy and paste the intro and ending slides from the template project into your project. Note that Wink always pastes the slides before whatever slide you select, so for the ending slides you will have to move the final slide back before the ending slides.
Replace the text in the callouts with the title and description of your demo.
The preloader is the image that displays while a browser loads your demo. The control bar is the bar at the bottom of the demo. We've produced NetBeans-branded versions of both of these for you to use.
Choose File > Preferences or click the button.
Click the Choose button next to the Add preloader checkbox and select the netbeans_black preloader.
Click the Choose button next to the Add control bar checkbox and select the netbeans_silver control bar.
Make the ZIP of the demo available somewhere (they're often too big to e-mail) and send us a link to Webmaster. We'll add it to the NetBeans Media Library.


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First use of small UAS for aircraft inspection saves time
By Anthony James on	 16th March 2017 Drones & Air Taxis
When the 412th Test Wing's Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force (CTF) used a quadcopter to conduct a maintenance inspection of the exterior of a C-17 Globemaster III March 6, it marked the second time the CTF used a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) in a new application that shows promise.
The test involved flying the quadcopter at various distances from the C-17, which is on loan to Edwards for upgrades and testing from the 62nd Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
This was the first time the ET CTF flew an sUAS on the flightline. Winds remained manageable and allowed the test team to conduct three sorties with the quadcopter, which was fitted with a video camera.
Live video was assessed by the team, including maintainers, to determine if the quality was adequate for routine inspections. In addition, video recorded from the quadcopter's camera will be analyzed to see if it is clear enough to see smaller details of the cargo plane's exterior such as structural abnormalities, rivets and cracks. According to Maj. Dan Riley, ET CTF director, the test was so successful that the maintainers used the data to sign off their preflight external inspection, a first for the Air Force.
"This could save [maintainers]a lot of time," said Staff Sgt. Joshua Jaburek, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Lewis-McChord. "When we go on top of the airplane, we can only walk on certain parts and then we have to hook and unhook our (safety harness) every few feet."
Jaburek said inspections that would normally take 45 minutes to an hour could be done just in a few minutes with a quadcopter if it's successful. Maintainers also would not need a lift to inspect a C-17's tail.
According to Capt. Justin Merrick, ET CTF lead engineer, the CTF got the idea from seeing a video online showing a commercial airline company using an sUAS to inspect an airplane.
Edited by Michael Jones
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