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State Ethics Commission
Press Release Ethics Commission Issues Public Education Letter to Wayland High School Head Football Coach Scott Parseghian
David A. Wilson, Executive Director
Media Contact for Ethics Commission Issues Public Education Letter to Wayland High School Head Football Coach Scott Parseghian
David Giannotti, Communications Division Chief
Call David Giannotti, Communications Division Chief at (617) 371-9505
Email David Giannotti, Communications Division Chief at David.Giannotti@state.ma.us
Mr. Parseghian was involved in purchases of athletic apparel for Wayland High School teams, clubs and departments from his father's businesses for over ten years
Boston, MA — The State Ethics Commission today issued a Public Education Letter to Scott Parseghian, the Wayland High School Head Football Coach. The letter resolves allegations that Mr. Parseghian violated the conflict of interest law by making purchases of athletic apparel for Wayland High School sports teams from his father's businesses, and by representing those businesses in merchandise purchases by other Wayland High School teams, clubs and departments.
According to the letter, Mr. Parseghian has served as Wayland High School Head Football Coach for sixteen years, and was the school's Assistant Principal between 2004 and 2016. From 2001 until 2015, Wayland High School made approximately $150,000 in purchases from Mr. Parseghian's father's athletic apparel businesses. Mr. Parseghian made forty-one of these purchases, totaling approximately $60,000. Mr. Parseghian also facilitated the purchase of merchandise from his father's business by other Wayland High School staff members by taking orders, maintaining catalogs and merchandise samples in his office, and delivering the merchandise. Mr. Parseghian represented his father's businesses in forty-six such purchases, also totaling approximately $60,000.
According to the letter, the Commission found reasonable cause to believe Mr. Parseghian violated the conflict of interest law in three ways. First, the conflict of interest law prohibits a municipal employee from acting as agent for anyone other than his municipal employer in any matter involving the employer. Here, the Town of Wayland had a direct and substantial interest in athletic apparel purchases by Wayland High School's teams, club and departments, and Mr. Parseghian acted as agent for his father's businesses in many of those purchases. Second, the conflict of interest law prohibits a municipal employee from participating as a municipal employee in matters affecting his or his immediate family member's financial interest. Here, Mr. Parseghian participated as Head Football Coach in many team purchases from his father's businesses. Third, the conflict of interest law prohibits a public employee from acting in a way that would cause a reasonable person to conclude he acts with undue favoritism in performing his official duties. Here, Mr. Parseghian's involvement as a Wayland High School employee in the purchases from his father's businesses would cause a reasonable person to conclude that he unduly favored his father in his purchasing decisions as Head Football Coach.
The Commission and Mr. Parseghian agreed to resolve this matter with the Public Education Letter. The Commission decided not to initiate adjudicatory proceedings against Mr. Parseghian because Wayland High School investigated the matter and imposed a financial penalty on him, and because Mr. Parseghian fully cooperated with the Commission's investigation. Mr. Parseghian chose not to exercise his right to a hearing before the Commission.
The Commission encourages public employees to contact the Commission's Legal Division at 617-963-9500 for free advice if they have any questions regarding how the conflict of interest law may apply to them.
The State Ethics Commission is an independent state agency that administers and enforces the provisions of the conflict of interest law and financial disclosure law.
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Hurricane Harvey Impacts Crude Oil And Gasoline: What You Need To Know
Ellen R. Wald Senior Contributor
suspension of some fracking activities will have an impact on global crude oil stocks
As we pay more at the pump, perhaps we will think of those who are rebuilding in Houston, Rockport and Corpus Christi and remember to help as we can.
Update: August 29, 2018 7:30 PM Eastern
The Motiva refinery in Port Arthur and the nearby Valero refinery announced that they are shutting down operations due to flooding. It is unclear when they will reopen.
U.S. refining capacity is now estimated at only 30%. Additional refineries are closing. The Motiva refinery has limited production to 40%. In addition, the Colonial Pipeline has reported disruptions that will impact the delivery of product to the southeast. Expect gasoline prices to rise and possibly increased prices on other petroleum products. As a result of the refining disruptions, crude oil producers will likely curb production. If they do not, we will likely see further reductions in the price of crude oil as stores pile up because there is no where for it to go.
As we support the residents of Eastern Texas who are persevering through the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and continued flooding, many are asking what the storm means for that region's most notable products: crude oil and gasoline. The effect on energy commodities does not compare to the devastation to the lives of millions, but oil and gasoline are integral to modern lives. The analysis is best broken into three parts: crude oil production, transportation and storage of oil and gasoline.
Refineries are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey August 27, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (BRENDAN... [+] SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Hurricane Harvey and the flooding that has followed are probably not major disruptions to crude oil production or supplies. Offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico was interrupted as Harvey passed, but it is already restarting. When this was written, 379,000 barrels per day of crude production remained offline in the Gulf of Mexico, which is 22% of total Gulf production. It is expected to return online shortly. Some companies suspended fracking operations in parts of south Texas. For example, XTO (owned by ExxonMobil ) shut all production in the path of Harvey and evacuated all staff. Chesapeake Energy is cutting back on crude oil production until refineries in Houston and the Gulf Coast come back online.
Even in the short term, suspension of some fracking activities will have an impact on global crude oil stocks . However, there was such a large oversupply and high levels of storage before the storm that there are no fears of crude shortages. OPEC will eagerly await any impact, no matter how small, hoping it pushes prices up. However, as of noon on Monday, WTI prices were actually down over 3%. Much of the gossip in the oil-trading world is reminding investors that crude price impacts are historically limited following such storms.
Shipping channels and ports in Eastern Texas have been disrupted. The Houston shipping channel was shut down and ports at Corpus Christi and Galveston were also closed due to the hurricane. Tankers are waiting in the Gulf of Mexico. At this time, neither crude nor petroleum products are coming or going from Eastern Texas. However, imports and exports of crude oil, oil products, and liquefied natural gas are all leaving and entering ports in Louisiana normally.
A storage tank is seen at the ExxonMobil oil refinery along the Houston Ship Channel in Houston,... [+] Texas. ( Carlos Javier Sanchez/ Bloomberg News)
The impact of flooding on some ports may be serious. Some have been filled with silt that builds up from the influx of water. This is called "shoaling," and it will require cleanup and maybe repairs. There will likely be a disruption of normal import and export patterns, but it is impossible to know how much until the damage is assessed. However, unlike after other Gulf hurricanes, there is no expectation of a shortage of crude oil because there is so much excessive oil already in storage. The problem, in this case, is ensuring that active refineries can access crude oil. The U.S. government has indicated that it is not planning to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve though it is prepared to if conditions make it necessary.
Gasoline prices will likely see the greatest impact from the storm in the energy industry. Sunday night gasoline futures rose almost 7%. 2.2 million barrels per day of refining capacity in Texas have been shut or greatly reduced as a result of Harvey. Among the facilities disrupted is the second largest refinery in the U.S. (an ExxonMobil-owned operation in Baytown, TX that refines 560,500 barrels per day). The industry expects some of these refining operations to be closed or at least disrupted for at least a week. However, good news is that along the Texas-Louisiana border the largest refinery in the U.S. (Aramco-owned Motiva which refines 600,000 barrels per day) is operating fully, at least for the time being. There are some reports that Motiva is considering a shut down depending on Harvey's path. Citgo is also planning to restart operations at its Corpus Christi refinery on Thursday.
Customers fuel vehicles at a Sunoco LP gas station ahead of Hurricane Harvey in Texas City, Texas,... [+] U.S., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The price of gasoline rallied as the hurricane threatened to wreak havoc on the heart of America's energy sector. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg)
Recent EIA have shown gasoline builds, so there was already a backlog of gasoline in the system to compensate for some loss of refining. Nevertheless, prices are expected to rise. There was also concern before the storm that pipeline closures could disrupt supplies in other parts of the U.S. and some pipelines that supply crude and condensate to refineries in Texas are closed. However, the main concern for consumers in the eastern U.S. was the Colonial Pipeline. This pipeline supplies gasoline and other products to key area. If the Colonial Pipeline were to be disrupted, gasoline prices in the Southeast would spike as they did during other recent disruptions, but the pipeline appears to be operating normally.
The refining disruptions in Texas should take us right into the Labor Day weekend when many Americans are on the road and buying gasoline. Typically, gasoline prices rise in September as refineries slow for scheduled changes to winter blends. Harvey and the flooding that has followed may exacerbate the gasoline price jump for a while, but the higher prices will pass before long.
Ellen R. Wald
I'm an energy historian writing about how governments and energy businesses interact globally. My work looks at how policy, wars, diplomacy, the stock market, oil pric

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How are you doing? Have you figured out where Destination Eleven is yet? Let's see. From Day 1's picture clue you know that D11 has ginormous auroras (northern lights). And on Day 2 you discovered that D11 is lightweight enough to float in water, although its pretty unlikely anyone will ever find a tub big enough to actually try it!
So, have you figured it out yet? What, you want another clue???
When Gallileo looked through his telescope two years later he was shocked to find that the small 'stars' (which he also called 'moons') on either side of D11 had disappeared. And he was even more surprised to see them back again 4 years later. He tried to account for this strange behavior by concluding that the 'moons' were actually some sort of 'arms'.
Does that help, Space Bloggers? What do Galileo's 'arms' look like to you?
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The Inhumans confirmed as coming to the small and very big screen at ABC and not a threat to Agents of SHIELD
Marvel has officially greenlit an Inhumans TV series for its ABC lineup, with the first two episodes being screened in IMAX theatres across the US.
The series will be filmed entirely on IMAX cameras and premiered in a two-week theatrical run at the beginning of September 2017, before moving into ABC's Autumn line-up.
The Inhumans follows a hybrid human-Kree race of superpowered mutants, each of whom has their own signature ability meant to restore an evolutionary equilibrium.
The series "will explore the never-before-told epic adventure of Black Bolt and the royal family", a Marvel statement read.
Some fans were worried the show may mean the end of Agents of SHIELD, but according to Marvel "Inhumans has no impact on the fate of Agents of SHIELD. No decision has been made as to whether Agents of SHIELD will return for a fifth season or not."
More as we get it.
Source: Collider & IGN
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Belgian coalition talks collapse
The caretaker government is set to stay in place for now (Photo: EUobserver)
By Honor Mahony
6. Sep 2010, 09:28
Talks on forming a new government in Belgium collapsed over the weekend leading a series of French-speaking politicians to raise the normally-taboo subject of a possible break-up of the country.
King Albert on Saturday (4 September) accepted the resignation of French-speaking Socialist leader Elio Di Rupo as lead negotiator after he failed to bring the seven-party talks to an agreement on reforming the state, a precondition for establishing a coalition government.
Mr Di Rupo is the second mediator to fail in the task since elections just under three months ago. Bart de Wever, the leader of the devolution-minded Flemish party, the N-VA, which won the 13 June poll resigned from the task in July.
The King has now appointed the Francophone speaker of the lower house of parliament, Andre Flahaut of the Socialist Party, and the speaker of the Senate, Danny Pieters of the N-VA to try to kickstart the negotiations again.
The discussions have focussed on three issues - the future of francophone suburbs in Brussels that lie within Dutch-speaking Flanders (the issue that caused the collapse of the last government in April), a new federal financing law and the refinancing of the nation's capital Brussels. This last matter is causing the most friction in recent weeks.
The issues go to the heart of relations between richer Dutch-speaking Flanders wanting more power for the communities and subsidy-dependent French-speaking Wallonia which fears devolution will see it lose out economically.
With talk on the breakup of the country normally the preserve of Flemish politicians, it is French-speaking politicians who this time have stolen the media march.
Francophone Socialist Laurette Onkelinx told La Derniere Heure: "Let's hope it doesn't come to that because if we split, it will be the weakest who will pay the heaviest price."
"On the other hand, we can no longer ignore that among a large part of the Flemish population, it's their wish. So yes, we have to get ready for the break-up of Belgium."
Philippe Moureaux, another leading Francophone socialist, said Belgium was on the verge of a "progressive organisation of separation" while Rudy Demotte, head of the Wallonia state government, told RTBF radio that "all options" are now open.
Tactics?
Flemish papers have suggested that the comments are more of a tactic as negotiations go to the wire, particularly over the revised financing of debt-ridden Brussels, with Flemish politicians calling for clearer commitments from the Francophones such as linking financial reform of Brussels with overall reform of the state.
De Standaard, a Flemish newspaper, quotes N-VA politician Phillipe Muyters as saying that if French-speaking politicians "take their responsibility" in negotiations then their position becomes much more difficult.
An unnamed Flemish politician is said by the newspaper to have referred the statements as "blatant bar talk" and likening the Francophones to a toddler bent on destroying what is before them because they have not got their way.
French-speaking politicians argue they have made great concessions to the wishes of the Flemish parties.
Meanwhile, according to Marc Eyskens, from the Flemish Christian Democrats CD&V, agreement is not far off.
"The splitting of Belgium, a country so intricate, is impossible. By contrast, the secession of Flanders is more probable, with the difficulties that that entails as much as with regards to Brussels, which Flanders would lose, as regards to the European Union, of which it would not be a member," he says.
Lengthy coalition negotiations are not new for Belgium. The last round took almost nine months. However, the negotiations are particularly under the microscope at the moment because Belgium is supposed to be running the day-to-day affairs of the European Union, as the rotating presidency country.
In addition, the country's perilous public debt level is also adding pressure. Its debt-to-annual output ratio is the third highest in Europe. The central bank has forecast that it will rise above 100 percent next year.


My cousin's wedding was covered by the LA Times, which is kind of cool. Even cooler, he and his now husband were finally able to get married in California.
To be honest, I'm not even entirely sure how we're related. I think his mom and my grandmother are first cousins. If I've remembered that correctly, he would be my second cousin once removed, right? However we're related, I'm so happy for him. Congrats Paul!


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Curbside Classic: 1980 Cadillac Sedan DeVille – Et Tu, Brougham?
Robert Kim
(first posted 2/9/2015) Friends, Romans, CCers, lend me your ears! I come to praise this 1980 Cadillac Sedan DeVille despite its decrepit exterior condition, not to bury it. The evil of a car design lives after it, the good is often forgotten and sent to the junkyard with it, but let us not allow that to happen with this Malaise Era Cadillac.
This Sedan DeVille is one that I have seen parked on the same street in Washington, DC, near Georgetown University, since the early 1990s; from time to time driven and then re-parked on the same street, gradually becoming more ragged as the years passed, but still alive and running. After this car's 34 years of existence and my over two decades of seeing it, I have come to speak of what I know about its story.
The downsized 1977 Cadillac DeVille and Fleetwood Brougham continued much of the basic engineering of their enormous 1971-76 predecessors beneath their trimmed down bodies. The unique Cadillac V-8 continued, reduced in displacement from 500 to 425 cubic inches. Output was a respectable 180 horsepower and 320 ft-lbs of torque with a carburetor or 195 horsepower and 320 ft-lbs of torque with the optional electronic fuel injection introduced in 1975, and the (unadjusted) EPA mileage rating was 14 mpg city/20 mpg highway.
With 138,750 Sedan DeVilles, 95,421 Coupe DeVilles, and 28,000 Fleetwood Broughams sold in 1977, a considerable increase over the 114,482 Sedan DeVilles, 67,677 Coupe DeVilles, 6,200 Calais sedans and coupes, and 24,500 Fleetwood Broughams sold in 1976, the market had clearly spoken that the 1977 DeVille and Fleetwood Brougham were right for the times and a success.
The 1980 DeVille and Fleetwood Brougham tweaked the concept further with a more aerodynamic restyling with a more formal roofline that remained almost completely unchanged through 1989, and a Cadillac big block V-8 with displacement further reduced to 368 cubic inches. Retaining the same 4.06″ stroke, it reduced the cylinder bores from 4.082″ to 3.80″. Output now was 150 horsepower and 265 ft-lbs of torque at a barely above idle 1600 rpm from the only version, which used a carburetor with no fuel injection available (digital electronic fuel injection was an Eldorado and Seville-only feature).
Using the same 3-speed THM400 transmission, the EPA gas mileage rating now was 15 mpg city/23 mpg highway. Part of the credit for the mileage rating goes to the ultra-low 2.28:1 final drive ratio used since 1977, introduced along with the 425 and still usable with the 368 with its high torque from just above idle speed.
Photo from www.fleetofcads.com
For comparison, the only German sedan in close to the same class in size and engine configuration and displacement, the W116 chassis Mercedes-Benz 450SEL, had an EPA rating under the same test protocols of 16 mpg city/22 mpg highway. With its single overhead cam, fuel injected 4.5 liter (275 cubic inch) V-8, smaller and more sophisticated than Cadillac's pushrod-operated overhead valve, carbureted 368 cubic inch V-8, it had essentially the same fuel consumption as the Cadillac.
The shorter wheelbase, six cylinder Mercedes-Benz 280SE paradoxically had a worse mileage rating of 16 mpg city/20 mpg highway, from its 2.8 liter double overhead cam M110 inline six whose low power and poor fuel economy led to diesels becoming the preferred U.S.-market Mercedes engines in the W116 and W123 series.
The Mercedes 4.5 liter V-8 no doubt had advantages in power to weight ratio and peak rpm, and Mercedes' four-wheel independent suspension was more sophisticated, but in a luxury sedan with a typical driver of such a vehicle during the era of 55 mile per hour highway speed limits, these theoretical advantages probably rarely affected real-world driving.
Few remember 34 years later, but the 1980 Cadillac DeVilles and Fleetwood Broughams — both now available for 1980 as either a four-door sedan or a two-door coupe — had not only enormous interior space and considerable "presence," but also both surprising fuel economy, and proven reliability and durability from the well-established Cadillac engine under the hood.
It had been a success from its introduction as the 472 V-8 in 1968, and it had evolved gradually for over a decade as the 500, 425, and finally 368. The 368 of 1980 was the last successful general usage of this engine, which acquired the unreliable V8-6-4 electronic controls in 1981, then disappeared in favor of the infamous HT4100 aluminum block V-8 in 1982 except in Fleetwood Limousines and commercial chassis, which used the 368 to move their longer and heavier bodies until 1984.
Identifying the year of this Sedan DeVille was initially difficult because it had no badges on its flanks or trunk lid identifying the engine, announcing "V8-6-4" or "HT4100 Digital Fuel Injection" or "5.0 Liter." Some research to determine the year of the grille told me why there were no engine badges — this car came from the end of the era when a full size DeVille or Fleetwood Brougham had a Cadillac engine standard, not any of the engines that ruined Cadillac's reputation with their unreliability, lack of power, or both.
The first dagger came in 1978, with the introduction of the ill-fated Oldsmobile diesel V-8 as an option; a further one in 1981, with the addition of the unreliable V8-6-4 electronic controls to the 368; and the lethal blow in 1982, with the across the board introduction of the underpowered and unreliable HT4100 aluminum V-8 as standard.
The Oldsmobile 307 V-8 that took over as the powerplant for this body style as the "5.0 Liter" in the Cadillac Brougham, in 1986, restored reliability to the engine compartment, but its reduced displacement and power (140 horsepower and 255 ft-lbs of torque) came with an only slightly improved EPA rating of 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway (16 mpg city/23 mpg highway under the current rating system), even with the benefit of the four speed THM200-4R.
Instead of again having more than adequate power from a Cadillac engine, the Brougham would continue with a non-Cadillac engine barely able to move it — a final disappointment. Et tu, Brougham? Then fall, Cadillac!
So here we have a Sedan DeVille from the last of the traditional and fundamentally sound years, with current inspections and registrations and still at least occasionally driven after 34 years. The car has certainly lived a good life, and from the looks of the blue velour interior (identical in color to the interior in this brochure), so has its owner.
The interior had a unique feature that I have not seen before on any car, which reflections on the windows unfortunately did not allow me to photograph: a front seat with completely even wear on the driver and passenger sides. The driver of this car rarely if ever went anywhere alone; he or she apparently always went places together with either a spouse or friends. We all should be so lucky.
The driver and passenger spent all of those trips over the course of 34 years in comfort. With enormous interior and trunk space, soft leather or velour, automatic climate control, and power everything, Today, critics seem obsessed with 0-60 times and whether the wood grain was from a tree or made of plastic. The owner of this car probably did not care about either, and with good reason.
There are probably many 1980 DeVilles and Fleetwood Broughams that have led similar lives as reliable and reasonably economical luxury cars in anonymity, out of the 55,490 Coupe DeVilles, 49,188 Sedan DeVilles, 29,659 Fleetwood Brougham sedans, and 2,300 Fleetwood Brougham coupes produced that year.
Photo from www.gm-classics.com
At least a few enthusiasts have seen further potential in these cars and acted on it. One was Matt Garrett, a collector with an impressive collection of Cadillacs, who built an extreme yet stock-looking luxury muscle car from a 1980 Fleetwood Brougham D'Elegance with a factory Commercial Chassis frame and Astroroof, powered by a 500 horsepower 500 cubic inch Cadillac big block and with Caprice 9C1/Impala SS suspension upgrades.
It was comparable to the renowned Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9, with its big-block 6.9 liter M100 engine, but far more powerful and faster. So although this white 1980 Sedan DeVille may never be considered worth restoring, out of the many who once loved these Cadillacs — not without cause — some mourn their passing and have preserved examples that remind us of what these cars once were and could have been.
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Very nice. Sad to see the deterioration, you wonder how it would look had a garage been available.
The 1980 might be the high point that combines styling, power and durability. I liked those updated sombrero wheelcovers in the car in the ad.
AWEboss
However, I wish you hadn't included the link to Matt Garrett's 'muscle Fleetwood' – because now that I've seen it, I desperately want a Caddy like that 🙂
(of course this is a joke, I very much enjoyed reading both articles)
DesignToronado
The "Standard of the World Gangster Look" brought to you from behind the walls of Jackson Penitentiary, the Worlds Largest Prison, by "Design."
He does sell them from time to time – if you go to his site you can see what he has.
Ditto!! 🙂
Ha ha! At school, I wear a toga on the Ides of March and go around reading Mark Antony's funeral oration. Yeah, I'm weird.
Some of my favorite lines:
"If you shall send them word you will not come,
Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
Apt to be render'd, for someone to say
'Break up the Senate till another time,
When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'
If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?
Schoolyard paraphrase: "Caesar is a chicken, Caesar is a chicken!"
occam24
Interesting observation on even seat wear. Matches what I've seen over the years. Caddies tend to carry older couples who go everywhere together; and often carry a second couple in the back seat.
I'd love to see it restored to its former glory. The last big and reliable Cadillac before a long dark winter of our discontent.
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And remove that ugly vinyl top. This one would look good without it, all in white.
The standard of the world
That was my dad's last Cadillac, same color. At the time I saw it as a well-executed barge, plenty of room & decent gas mileage. While driving down the old Pasadena Freeway, that hood made me feel it took up 1½ lanes.
I don't remember why he replaced it with a 1st-gen Panther Town Car, maybe he got tired of the Check Engine Light. Dad bought cars w/o consulting his family. Anyway, it made me miss the deVille's styling.
mark reimer
After 1980 I am guessing what was passing for an unreliable, slow, joke content Cadillac sold more than a few Lincoln Town Cars.
Ding, ding, ding…
I remember that every Town Car in the parking lot of the golf course my father frequented (in the late 80s to mid 90s) was roughly 1984 and up. They far outnumbered the Cadillacs.
Although they were a contrast to the less affluent and younger members who tended to have pickup trucks or an old muscle car they were holding tightly onto. (Dad's Mustang fell into the last category.)
It must've been CAFE ratios that allowed Ford to get away with selling all those 302 Panthers, for it's otherwise hard to explain Cadillac surrendering the V8 barge market to Lincoln, esp. since Fords were usually thirstier than GMs of comparable size.
When Dad traded his TC for the 3rd-gen version, the neighbor across the street snapped up his old one, which suggested the latent demand for that type of car.
I figure the 302 Ford was just more powerful with equal fuel economy than anything GM had in the five-liter bracket. The 350 Chevy was good and strong but put a passenger car into the gas-guzzler tax bracket.
texan01
The 302 had a bigger bore than the 305, which helped make power, the little 305 had a smallish 3.74″ bore vs. 4″ of the 302 and the GM heads of the times had tiny valves, so the 305 never really had a chance from the factory.
That's cool that you've been seeing this car for the past two decades, witnessing the changes over the years.
Orrin
The last regular sedan with the old Cadillac V8, THM 400, and no computer. Having driven the Brougham version I've often wondered if the non-limousine rear window in the Sedan DeVille would be an improvement. Less "privacy" to be sure, but the visibility would be better.
As you point out, the '80 is probably the last Cadillac for several decades with componentry that permitted to be competitive, and likely cross-shopped, with some of the foreign competition. The unreliable engines, early THM200 transmissions, and "withering on the vine" of this design that followed would render it a geezer mobile by 1990 that nobody would be weighing against a big Benz. These represent the absolute last moment that Cadillac had it together, still crusing on the high from the positive reviews of the '77 and '78 models.
I missed out on the chance to buy one of these in 2006. I was driving the '87 Brougham to my mechanic for its tri annual issue with the 10000 feet of vaccuum lines connected to the 307/E4ME QJET. He had an '80 Sedan DeVille out front in that medium blue color, with the dog dish caps. 90K, $2500 OBO. I probably could have traded the newer Brougham and gotten cash back and saved a lot of money going forward. Still kick myself for that one.
Sean Cornelis
+1 Pretty much exactly how I feel about them. Was there still some good to the post-'80 Cadillacs? Yeah, but even by 1981 I think the W126 was making them look archaic.
I'm not going to go so far as "look". Outwardly, these remained contemporary in styling til about 1985. It was at that time that a car somewhat (if not identical in looks) similar to the '93 "whale" should have been introduced, with EFI, overdrive, and a more aero look.
Inwardly, as soon as the engines and transmissions ceased to be competitive, these were not comparable. I might still have preferred one from an aesthetic point of view, but there's no way a 307 carbureted V8 should have been powering the 1987 version of this car.
Agree on the engines–if it wasn't going to have a Cadillac engine, they should have given it an engine appropriate of the car at least. The 307 was not that engine. The Chevy 350 would have been the obvious choice, but if they couldn't do that without running afoul of CAFE, the next best choice would have been the Chevy "HO" 305 as used in the Camaro and Monte Carlo SS.
Joe Yoman
Indeed this was the last year of the 300-400K mileage potential Cadillacs. I wouldn't write off a good running 1988-90 307 Brougham either as they also have the potential to live many miles. Those three model years have 2.93: rear gears instead of 2.73 for 1986-87 307 cars or 2.28:1 for 1980-81 368 models. They also have spark control in these years and I knew a few guys with these cars that hopped there 307's up to 442 motors with upgraded cam, valve springs, tweaked carb secondaries and a lower restriction exhaust. This seemed to give more all around power even if it sacrificed a little low end response. If I found a mint low mileage Brougham that was 307 powered it would get the 442 engine treatment and a set of 3.42 rear gears from a 1982-85 HT 4100 car. There are actually two such Devilles in my local pick and pull and both have there original 3.42 rear ends in tact.
I had a 307 powered '87 Brougham some years back, damn good dependable car.
What about the 90-92 350 Brougham? Yes, it's a Chevy engine, but that seems like the pick of the litter to me post 1980. More power, far more torque and the good reputation of the late TBI 350. The 1990 styling tweaks with the composite lamps aren't to some people's taste, but they work for me.
pl8ster
I prefer the composite lamps, personally.
dealeraward
The 1991-92 models equipped with small block, fuel injected 305 or 350, pick up where the 1980 left off. Finally some power with decent gas mileage (305).
Greg Olotka
Back in 1991, I rented one of the last Broughams, a white 350 with burgundy leather. It was like driving your living room around at 70 mph. Good times…
Minstrel_Gallery
I thought the 1980 restyle looked a lot better in the sedans than the coupes (didn't like the 1980+ full sized coupes at all), the sedans are really nice cars but it's a shame those built from 1981-85 suffered through poor, underpowered engines and poor reliability
Frank Bray
I liked the '77-'79 versions more, never much cared for the sharply creased, upright lines on the '80s Deville/Fleetwood. And the reliability woes and engineering gaffes really tarnished Cadillac's full-sizers in the early '80s. The strangely-styled bustleback Seville, The puny Cimaron and the downsized shrunken Eldo really did the brand in, bringing the pain full circle. In all, the 1980s were a terrible decade for Cadillac and it struggles even today to bring back the lost magic.
My uncle had a '79 Buick Electra Limited, essentially the Buick version of this car. It was beautiful, with lots of interior room, nice furnishings and a cushy ride. A shame this car is in such poor shape.
Disagree with you on the downsized Eldorado, unless you're talking about the '86 model. The first downsized models of '79 were among the best American cars of the era. But the really downsized '86-'91 models were one of the worst product failures in automotive history.
I was referring to the drastically downsized '86-91 models, sorry I should have made that clear. the '79-85 Eldo and its stablemates was one bright spot at GM during that time.
But apart from the '79-85 Eldo, everything else during the '80s turned into a big steaming pile at Cadillac.
Tom C
Robert, you have reversed the production numbers for the deVilles in the 70's. The Coupe deVille was a better seller than the Sedan deVille throughout the 70's. It was in the early 80's that things changed for the Coupe deVille. In fact, 1980 was a bad year for Cadillac in general as sales decreased over 27% from the previous year.
1980 was a bad year for pretty much any model of car that was larger than a compact, due to the 1979 energy crisis and its attendant recession. At GM, the new FWD X-cars and the fuel-efficient Chevette did great, the aging H-bodies (Monza/Sunbird, in their final full model year) did OK, and almost everything else probably experienced a significant sales decrease. Still, it could have been worse; they could have been Ford…
1980 was a bad year for cars in totality, wasn't it? Not talking about sales numbers, I'm talking about the cars themselves.
I mean, the car in this article is probably the closest thing to a shining moment of automotive greatness as far as 1980 is concerned. Or am I just being overly cynical?
Hard running car. Best of all it's a cadillac.
Olddavid
My short stint with GM was over in 1982. I had the good fortune to be "forced" to long term test a deactivated 8-6-4 Fleetwood Coupe. White with the burgundy leather. Perhaps the best luxury experience of driving to that date in my young life. I was already programmed to feel 150 horsepower as adequate, and my upward mobility desire had me in 'wanna-be" mode, so this car was perfect for me and for the time. I think I probably had it for 3-4 months without a hiccup. I do not believe I have seen a two door Fleetwood since that time. If one were to come up, it would make a perfect foil for my MarkVIII. I think I would alter my usual stock plans and attempt to adapt the 472/500 for power. Full circle, I guess. I just wish my Dad were here to collaborate. This car represented Cadillac's last gasp as "Standard of the World".
It was stupid of GM to drop the fuel injection on this car and relegate it to only Eldos and the Seville. In 1975 it looked like GM was looking into the future and seeing that carbs were going the way of the dinosaur and that the future was fuel injection (which it was) and then they drop back and stick in an engine with a carb.
Then there was the V8-6-4 engine offered the next year. Despite what many folks think, that engine was not a bad engine itself and the concept was good(most car makers use Variable Displacement in their cars now) it was just the electronics of the day were just too primitive for the job at that time.(had they rolled out this engine in the late 1980's it would have worked out). Most folks had this system deactivated at the dealership(you clipped one wire) and the engine then gave its owners years of trouble free driving because the engine itself was sound.
But instead of GM deciding to try to improve the engine or simply offer the engine without the cylinder deactivation (it was a damn fine running engine mechanical wise) they dropped it by 1984 and instead offered a the HT4100 in the cars.
I've always kinda wanted to get a V8-6-4 just to dick around with/see if I could get it to function as intended. There's a lot of good documentation out there on GM EFI and supposedly they kept updating it through '84 in the Commercial Chassis/Limos. A guy I used to work with, a huge Caddy nut, had a Seville equipped with the 8-6-4 in the '90s and claimed it worked flawlessly for him… so that makes at least one of them that worked properly!
I've caught a superclean one running around with a V8-6-4 badge. I've seen it a few times but have't been able to ask the owner if its still running the original engine.
It probably does, the actual engine was not the problem in these cars. That was bullet proof. It was the solenoids on the engine that gave the issues. To fix it and to lock it in to V8 mode permanently, you simply cut a wire going to the transmission which told the computer that the car was cruising(a yellow wire I believe) and then the engine behaved well and gave you years of trouble free issues. Yea it probably bothered the greenies or the folks in charge of the CAFE numbers or folks in the California government in charge of CARB that it was now back to the same gas guzzling and smog producing Caddy it was the year before but to most folks that bought the cars, gas mileage was not really a concern.
MadHungarian
The 4.1 was really more intended for the FWD cars that GM had in the works. But GM felt that they would miss CAFE targets no matter how they tweaked a fuelie 368, and GM had made a corporate decision that they would not accept having to sell any car with gas guzzler tax.
People criticize that decision all the time, but I don't think GM had any real choice. It's one thing if a smaller non-U.S. automaker has a couple of gas guzzlers or misses its CAFE targets; if they're only selling a few thousand of those cars in the States anyway, it's not like it represents any great environmental disaster or affront to the public interest. For the largest U.S. automaker to flaunt the rules would have been quite another matter. That's the kind of thing that puts regulators in a mood to get really punitive in hopes of setting an example for others.
This single asinine decision was the start to the mess Cadillac still faces today. And the 5.7 diesel being std equipment in some 1980 models didn't help along with offering carbureted Buick V6's for 1980-82. The 368 could easily have been made to increase MPG enough to escape a guzzler tax with lower gearing and an overdrive automatic transmission.
My 1981 Consumer Guide auto lists a 351 2BBL V8 tied to an overdrive transmission as being available on the Panther series cars. If Ford could work that out with a carburetor then a FI 368 should have been abel to pull it off.
Didn't last long though. I'm not sure what the last year was for the 351 being an option across the board, but for most of the 80's through to the end of the box Panthers in '91, the 351 was only available on the P71 police package cars. I think that was a 4bbl variant.
Please bring back velour seats, it's far more luxurious than (p)leather….pillow top velour is even better. I'm drooling over those blue seats.
Here's this car's New York cousin, parked in front of a graveyard:
I haven't been seeing this car for two decades, but it's been there that long. It's been a regular sighting for me over the past 5 years… which is as long as I've been working in the neighborhood. The owner just sold it recently, which makes me very sad – but its sale also enabled me to learn its history (it has a webpage!) with an interesting story and lots of photos over the years.
Apparently it lived, and continues to live, a very happy life – and has apparently racked up 450k miles on its original 425! I remember hearing it start up one cold morning when it was missing its exhaust and it still sounded healthy and strong. I always meant to stop and talk to the owner, but never got around to it… I took for granted that it might not always be there!
http://www.thecadillacwiththetigerinit.com/
Here it is when it was just a teenager, on a road trip to its birthplace:
I've seen this one too, downtown!
Thanks for that link! The car has quite the fascinating story, and how many cars get to tell it in their own words?
Hopefully the new owner will update the web site at some point.
Did we get the "fancy" engines in these here in Canada? I just recall seeing Chevy or Olds engines in these.
We had one in the family with the Buick 4.1, a credit option- had a 4 barel carb and the same hp and slightly more torque than the infamous 4100. Never had issues. The 4.1 was not quite Cadillac like.
My business partner drove a 1982 black Deville around for 3 years with slightly over 100K miles that had the Buick 4.1 V6. It needed a new choke pull off and the catalytic converter was partially plugged but after that was done I was quite surprised how well that little engine moved that boat around. The only time you noticed a lack of power was when a quick burst of passing power was needed and it just wasn't there or long steep grades.
Seems like most of the 1980-92 full sized RWD Cadillac's I see today are those built from 1986 onward due to them having the 5.0 Liter V8 engine, I definitely agree the 1977-79 version was far superior in style, reliability and power.
210delray
I wonder if the featured car was purchased at Capitol Cadillac, now located outside the capital in Greenbelt, Maryland. I remember their radio jingles from the 80s!
Dave B
Nice run down on the run down of the Cadillac engine. I believe technically Cadillac could have kept the 368 or even the 425 going in the high production models if they had been willing to risk some gas guzzler taxes. I believe GM had an edict that guzzler taxes would not happen – perhaps one of their bigger strategic errors.
I'm always amazed that this body will still turn up on my local rust belt roads in very good condition. Would you believe last Friday leaving the Costco parking lot as I was pulling in? In nice condition, these look positively patrician and unfortunately very much from another era.
Another damned brougham.
Crush it. Now.
Jon in Texas
Damn that is one ragged looking Caddy!! Not a lot of love going on there I think!!
LeBaron
I don't think it would be fair to compare a Fleetwood to a 6.9 as the 6.9 cost twice as much and was not a disposable car. Having owned Fleetwood's from the 60's, 70's and 80's, and having spent a good deal of time with 6.9's I can tell you there is no comparison no matter what kind of engine the Fleetwood might have installed.
I liked the 80's Fleetwood, especially the coupe.
I always have liked that color on a luxury car.
Hey, what happened to Carmine????????????????
Ralph L
It's a shame they killed the 368 in 1984, since gas prices plummeted the next year (a major factor in the collapse of the USSR) when the Saudis opened the spigots. But they probably just made extra in 1981 for later commercial sales. So many of GM's bad decisions were really stupid only in hindsight or were forced by government.
I drive a 1978 Cadillac DeVille regularly and I feel that the styling of the 1977-1979 cars was much nicer. The "formal" roofline really didn't age very well in my opinion.
The 425 is all about torque. It peaks at 2000 RPM and with the 2.28:1 rear axle, it works out to exactly 70 mph. All GM cars of the 1960's-1970's were designed to run at 65-70 mph. It will go up a mountain road in high gear without breaking a sweat. It was a motor that was worthy of a Cadillac car. As a matter of fact, I gunned it up Roger's Pass.
The 368 simply wasn't worth it. The EPA rating is a big 1 mpg better and it loses 45 hp.
I have never even come close to the EPA ratings. It's a big heavy car and I am not exactly easy with the right foot. Using US measures, in the city 12 MPG is about it and maybe 15-16 MPG on the highway
What did Cadillac change to add 2″ of rear legroom in the 1980 models (noted in the ad)?
The squarer roofline may have allowed them to move the rear seat back a bit and it's probably more upright. Wheelbase and A pillar didn't change.
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MY ROLE IN AZIKWELWA, THE 1957 ALEXANDRA BUS BOYOTT
These briefly are the facts as largely ignored by The Sowetan.
I took a leading part in the Alexandra Bus Boycott of 1957 first as Publicity Secretary and then as the Secretary of the Organising Committee. This Bus Boycott was successful in that the Bus Company, PUTCO, lowered the fares to the previous fares viz. a penny fare for a penny ticket on a long term basis, so that the people could travel at a price they could afford. It was not led by the African National Congress although in the article and other media interviews in November the implication is that ANC activists were also in effect the successful leaders of the Boycott. Azikwelwa was a spontaneous action of the people.
I myself belonged to a political organisation, The Movement for a Democracy of Content, which also organised politically in England, Germany and the USA. We worked with people from other organisations in the Boycott but above all we listened to the people and their wishes. Although the ANC was represented in the organising committee they were not the leaders of the boycott as such.
In the article, the Reporter did not separate the Defiance Campaign from the Alexandra Bus Boycott (Azikwelwa) which started on 7th January 1957, The Defiance Campaign was an ANC Campaign. W hen the Defiance Campaign of 1952 was launched I had, after my expulsion from Khaiso Secondary School for political reasons, joined the Society of Young Africa (SOYA) of the Unity Movement which characterised the Defiance Campaign as a misdirection of people, an analysis with which I agreed and still do today.
Azikwelwa was a spontaneous movement of the masses and no organisation could be said to be dominant in it, the ANC included. Effective leadership took command of the hour.
Before that the people had been following the Standholders and Tenants Association which took PUTCO to Court. PUTCO was not abolished in 1945 as is written in the article but was actually formed at that time.
The Potato Boycott was an ANC action which continued before and after Azikwelwa.
Despite the arduous task of walking to and from the town for several months – a distance of eleven miles each way – only one person died in jail.
The gentlemen mentioned in the article, Simon Noge and Arthur Magerman, who apparently gave the information for the article, were introduced to the Alexandra Peoples Transport Action Committee (APTAC) by myself. Each member of the organisations involved introduced three members to the Committee. I introduced them as they were in the Movement for a Democracy of Content with me.
For the purpose of clarity and correction I also sent Mr Nare of The Sowetan my book: Lessons of Azikwelwa which, despite typographical errors, gives a clear picture of what took place. Consulting this would have made it difficult for Mr Nare to make the mistakes mentioned above.
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Britta Maria Stövling, ogift Olsson, född 11 juni 1923 i Kungsholms församling i Stockholm, död 11 maj 2010 i Sankt Matteus församling i Stockholm, var en svensk författare och feminist.

Stövling, som var dotter till ingenjör Herman Olsson och kontorist Astrid Bondesson, uppnådde normalskolekompetens 1941, genomgick handelsutbildning 1942, studerade vid vuxengymnasium 1954–1956 och blev filosofie magister 1962. Hon var sekreterare 1942–1946, förlagsredaktör 1965–1970 och författare från 1971. Hon utgav feministiska böcker, artiklar, antologier och noveller. Hon var även verksam som föredragshållare.

Hon var 1946–1969 gift med konstnären Erik O. Stövling (1913–1991).

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Jobb: rapport från tre fabriker  (1971)
Politiska ord: annorlunda om ismer, gerilla, jargong, termer, tredje världen (1971)
Jorden är vår!: en bok om kvinnor och män, politik och natur, förtryck och befrielsekamp (tillsamnmans med Irene Götefelt, 1974)
Återtagandet: feminismens andra våg ur kvinnorörelsen i USA  (1977)
Kvinnor och barn först: sexualpolitiska dikter  (1977)
Kära kamrat! Boken om Alexandra Kollontay (1977)
Svärma som bin: kärleksprisningar och samtal med 16 kvinnor i Nordamerika (1980)
Incest: dotterrätt mot patriarkatet (tillsammans med Åsa Britasdotter, 1982)

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Agenor (klassisk grekiska: Ἀγήνωρ) var en kung av Tyros i grekisk mytologi. Enligt Herodotos levde Agenor på 2000-talet f.Kr..

Enligt Apollodorus föddes i Agenor i Memfis, Egypten. Han var son till guden Poseidon och prinsessan Libya av Memfis. Han var tvillingbror till Belos. Belus regerade över Egypten medan Agenor flyttade till Fenicien och regerade där. Enligt andra källor var han son till Belus och Neilos dotter Achiroe.

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Remedy Bar & Brewhouse hold an annual Easter Beer Festival and were wanting a PVC Banner designed and printed to advertise the event around Stockport Market Place. Keeping in with brand, it was black with white text. Main title graphics used the same font as was used within their logo and a punchy font was also used to on additional text explaining the amount of beers and ciders that will be showcased at the Beer Festival.


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Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning > Vol 11 > Issue 5-6
Computational Optimal Transport
Gabriel Peyré, CNRS and DMA, ENS, France, gabriel.peyre@ens.fr Marco Cuturi, Google and CREST/ENSAE, France, cuturi@google.com
Gabriel Peyré and Marco Cuturi (2019), "Computational Optimal Transport", Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning: Vol. 11: No. 5-6, pp 355-607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2200000073
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2. Theoretical Foundations
3. Algorithmic Foundations
4. Entropic Regularization of Optimal Transport
5. Semidiscrete Optimal Transport
6. W1 Optimal Transport
7. Dynamic Formulations
8. Statistical Divergences
9. Variational Wasserstein Problems
10. Extensions of Optimal Transport
Optimal transport (OT) theory can be informally described using the words of the French mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746–1818): A worker with a shovel in hand has to move a large pile of sand lying on a construction site. The goal of the worker is to erect with all that sand a target pile with a prescribed shape (for example, that of a giant sand castle). Naturally, the worker wishes to minimize her total effort, quantified for instance as the total distance or time spent carrying shovelfuls of sand. Mathematicians interested in OT cast that problem as that of comparing two probability distributions—two different piles of sand of the same volume. They consider all of the many possible ways to morph, transport or reshape the first pile into the second, and associate a "global" cost to every such transport, using the "local" consideration of how much it costs to move a grain of sand from one place to another. Mathematicians are interested in the properties of that least costly transport, as well as in its efficient computation. That smallest cost not only defines a distance between distributions, but it also entails a rich geometric structure on the space of probability distributions. That structure is canonical in the sense that it borrows key geometric properties of the underlying "ground" space on which these distributions are defined. For instance, when the underlying space is Euclidean, key concepts such as interpolation, barycenters, convexity or gradients of functions extend naturally to the space of distributions endowed with an OT geometry. OT has been (re)discovered in many settings and under different forms, giving it a rich history. While Monge's seminal work was motivated by an engineering problem, Tolstoi in the 1920s and Hitchcock, Kantorovich and Koopmans in the 1940s established its significance to logistics and economics. Dantzig solved it numerically in 1949 within the framework of linear programming, giving OT a firm footing in optimization. OT was later revisited by analysts in the 1990s, notably Brenier, while also gaining fame in computer vision under the name of earth mover's distances. Recent years have witnessed yet another revolution in the spread of OT, thanks to the emergence of approximate solvers that can scale to large problem dimensions. As a consequence, OT is being increasingly used to unlock various problems in imaging sciences (such as color or texture processing), graphics (for shape manipulation) or machine learning (for regression, classification and generative modeling). This paper reviews OT with a bias toward numerical methods, and covers the theoretical properties of OT that can guide the design of new algorithms.We focus in particular on the recent wave of efficient algorithms that have helped OT find relevance in data sciences. We give a prominent place to the many generalizations of OT that have been proposed in but a few years, and connect them with related approaches originating from statistical inference, kernel methods and information theory. All of the figures can be reproduced using code made available on a companion website. This website hosts the book project Computational Optimal Transport. You will also find slides and computational resources.
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Computational Optimal Transport: With Applications to Data Science
The goal of Optimal Transport (OT) is to define geometric tools that are useful to compare probability distributions. Their use dates back to 1781.
Recent years have witnessed a new revolution in the spread of OT, thanks to the emergence of approximate solvers that can scale to sizes and dimensions that are relevant to data sciences. Thanks to this newfound scalability, OT is being increasingly used to unlock various problems in imaging sciences (such as color or texture processing), computer vision and graphics (for shape manipulation) or machine learning (for regression, classification and density fitting). This monograph reviews OT with a bias toward numerical methods and their applications in data sciences, and sheds lights on the theoretical properties of OT that make it particularly useful for some of these applications.
Computational Optimal Transport presents an overview of the main theoretical insights that support the practical effectiveness of OT before explaining how to turn these insights into fast computational schemes. Written for readers at all levels, the authors provide descriptions of foundational theory at two-levels. Generally accessible to all readers, more advanced readers can read the specially identified more general mathematical expositions of optimal transport tailored for discrete measures. Furthermore, several chapters deal with the interplay between continuous and discrete measures, and are thus targeting a more mathematically-inclined audience.
This monograph will be a valuable reference for researchers and students wishing to get a thorough understanding of Computational Optimal Transport, a mathematical gem at the interface of probability, analysis and optimization.


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There were two 2-days courses visited in England in Joanne Poulton's Paint school. She is a professional who has a long practical work experience and has complemented herself in London, New York and Italy. Her works have taken her to Mauritius, Caribbean, America, Italy, Germany and France. Joanne is actively carrying out courses about decorative finishings.
The first workshop was "The Polished plaster course", where several Italian decorative finishing techniques and materials (e.g. Oikos' materials Raffaello, Travertino romano, Marmorino naturale, Cera per stucco, etc.) were treated and also Moroccon technique tadelakt. The course was very practical and during two days all the participants could make seven samples that could be taken home later. The used materials were ready-made mixtures from Oikos, these are environmentally friendly, solvent-frees, very durable and easily cleanable. The mixtures consist mainly of marble flour and lime. On the first day the surfaces and first coats were prepared, on the second day were made the finishing layers and the surfaces were polished.
The second workshop was "The Marbling and Stenciling with polished plaster course", where the focus of different decorative finishing techniques was mainly on imitative final finishings (e.g. marbling, stone patterns, etc.). The used materials were, for example, San Marco's products Marmorino classico, Grassello di Calce and Oikos' Marmorino naturale, Finitura autolucidante and different polishing waxes. On the first workshop day the surfaces and base coats were prepared, on the second day the final finishes were made with different tinted mixtures and with stenciling techniques. Also instructions were given how to make stencils ourselves and different finishing techniques were combined. It was very interesting to use different colourful waxes for imitating marble. During the course six different samples were made.
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UPDATE: Well, that was fast. THR's own Borys Kit, who broke the news to begin with, has tweeted that the offer for Gordon-Levitt was from November, and the actor has already passed. Our original story is below.
So are we just going to offer every lead role to Joseph Gordon-Levitt from now on? That sure seems to be what's happening, with the Dark Knight Rises actor on the rumored shortlist for the Guardians of the Galaxy lead, and now word that Legendary Pictures wants him to topline their Godzilla remake as well.
The giant monster movie earned massive buzz at Comic Con last summer when a brief teaser was shown, but the proejct-- directed by Monsters's Gareth Edwards-- still doesn't have a script or a cast in place. The Hollywood Reporter dropped the tidbit about Gordon-Levitt's offer in writing about the brewing battle between Legendary Pictures and producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee, who brought the project to the company. The studio is reportedly trying to boot the producers off the project, which could slow things down in advance of what they're hoping will be a start of production this spring.
While the producers and the studio iron out their differences-- and for more on the dispute, you can read Hitfix's account of Lin and Lee's departure-- we can at least focus on the happier business of casting. Gordon-Levitt isn't the only actor they're considering, of course; according to Variety's Justin Kroll, the studio also wants Henry Cavill to star, while "creatives"-- possibly Edwards himself-- are interested in Monsters star Scoot McNairy and Caleb Landry Jones, the actor seen as Banshee in X-Men: First Class. With the script still unfinished nothing is yet official, but in the meantime you can let us know in the comments who you'd like to see onboard-- and hope that, whatever happens, the dispute behind the scenes doesn't put the project off track.
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PASPA — the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that has kept all but four grandfathered US states from offering legal sports betting for the past 26 years — could possibly be overturned sometime Monday by the US Supreme Court, if a decision determining whether the federal sports betting ban violates the US Constitution is handed down.
March 5 has been predicted as a possible determination day by the nine SCOTUS justices.
BetDSI, an online casino and sportsbook that is taking wagers on the decision date, feels Monday is the day.
The current moneyline on "When will Supreme Court deliver ruling on Christie v NCAA" has March 5 the frontrunner at +100. That line implies odds of 50 percent, with wagers doubling should the bets be correct.
April 2 is next at +150, then April 30 (+300), May 14 (+750), May 21 (+1000), and May 29 the longest at +2500.
As for the verdict, bettors are putting their money on a repeal of PASPA, with "Yes," the Supreme Court will reverse a lower court's decision and allow New Jersey to authorize sports betting at -130. "No," PASPA will be upheld, is at +100.
The PASPA line means oddsmakers feel there's currently about a 58 percent of New Jersey horse racetracks and Atlantic City casinos soon operating sportsbooks.
Betting on political outcomes is predominantly illegal in the US. There is one exception, however, and it's PredictIt.org, an online betting platform that allows gamblers (or so-called "traders") to buy and sell shares of outcomes.
When events are determined, shares of the winning answer are paid $1 each, while people holding losing shares see their valuations go to $0.00. PredictIt limits financial wagers to $850 per market/question per person.
Prior to the December 4 hearing in Washington, "Yes" shares for PredictIt's "Will the Supreme Court rule against federal sports betting ban?" were trading for 74 cents. Following what many believed to be a successful day for New Jersey plaintiffs, the same shares surged as high as 90 cents.
The market was still at 90 cents in early February, but has since retracted slightly. As of Friday, "Yes" shares were at 84 cents.
New Jersey lawyers argue PASPA unlawfully forces certain states to adhere to federal regulations to their own disadvantage, while others are excluded from the ban and benefit. They cite anti-commandeering interpretations of the Tenth Amendment, which says Congress cannot compel a state to comply with a regulatory program while exempting others.
PASPA provided immunity to Nevada, Montana, Oregon, and Delaware when it was passed in 1992, as those four states had some sort of legalized sports gambling at the time. If the Supreme Court simply rules that the federal government can't keep states from creating their own sports betting laws, more than dozen would be expected to pass legislation as soon as this year.
However, if the Court says that PASPA is unconstitutional based on the Tenth Amendment, the consequences could be significant.


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Temple is a city in Carroll and Haralson counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 4,228 at the 2010 census, up from 2,383 in 2000.
The name "Temple" was adopted in 1883 when the railroad was extended to the settlement, after one Mr. Temple, a railroad official. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Temple as a town in 1883.
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As of the census of 2000, there were 2,383 people, 864 households, and 664 families residing in the city.
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Famous Wall Street Investing Quotes: Who Said It?
Cocktail-party stock tips are a dime a dozen, but some investment advice is worth taking to heart. We've collected famous words of wisdom from some of the best financial minds on and off Wall Street. Take a look to see if you can match these investing gems to the people who doled them out over the years. Good luck!
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"Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!"
Bogle has always preached the benefits of making passive investments in many stocks over trying to pick individual winners. Vanguard, the mutual-fund company he founded in 1975, was a pioneer in low-cost index investing.
"Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it."
Under the guidance of Lynch, the Fidelity Magellan fund delivered an annual average return of 29% between 1977 and 1990. His preference for simple, easy-to-understand businesses – Lynch's mantra was "Invest in what you know" – helped fuel those gains.
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"The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it's different.'"
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
The antithesis of Bernard Baruch's sober investing advice could be heard in Michael Douglas's big-screen portrayal in "Wall Street" of Gekko, a fictional financial Master of the Universe. The film captured the zeitgeist of American capitalism in the 1980s.


Pig Gelatin and Synthetic Pork: Kosher?
This week's Torah reading (in the diaspora) is Shemini, famous for its list of kashrut laws. One of the things explicitly prohibited is, of course, pork meat (Leviticus 11:7). In recent times, a number of articles have circulated making a variety of different claims, such as that lab-grown pork might be kosher, or that pig gelatin is kosher, or even that all pork meat is actually kosher! Is there any validity to these claims? And why is pork forbidden to begin with?
Did the Torah Mean to Forbid Pork for Everyone?
Last year, an article made headlines arguing that the prohibition of consuming pork was only meant for Israelite priests, not the general public. This is based on the old idea that the entire Book of Leviticus was meant only for Levites. The argument is silly, for although Leviticus does have many laws intended only for priests, it also has a great many laws that obviously apply to all of Israel, including the well-known "love your fellow as yourself". One simply has to look at how the laws are introduced to know whether they apply solely to priests or to the whole nation. When it comes to kashrut, the Torah states: "And Hashem spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them: Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'These are the creatures that you may eat among all the animals on earth…'" (Leviticus 11:2) Clearly, God commanded all of Israel when it comes to dietary laws.
Besides, abstaining from pork was actually common in other places across the Middle East. The Greek scholar Strabo (c. 63 BCE – 24 CE) noted that the ancient Phoenicians also abstained from pork, as did those who dwelled in the Arabian Peninsula, and their Muslim descendants to this day. Some believe this is because raising pigs requires a lot of water compared to raising other livestock—a precious commodity in the dry Middle East. Even the ancient Egyptians appear to have avoided pork meat at times. Perhaps the oldest reference is in the Coffin Texts that date as far back as the First Intermediate Period (2181-2055 BCE). Here, the evil god Set takes the form of a black pig, and is ultimately slain by the god Horus, to whom "the pig is an abomination". Whatever the case, it is well-known that archaeologists working in Israel can easily differentiate an ancient Israelite site from a Philistine one by the conspicuous absence of pig bones in the former compared to the latter. There is no doubt that all ancient Israelites abstained from pork.
Meanwhile, Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Itzchak, 1040-1105 CE) holds that the prohibition of pork is a chok, a divine law with no human rationale, just like the laws of the Red Cow or the prohibition of shaatnez, the wearing of wool and linen together in one garment (see his commentary on Leviticus 18:4). There are spiritual things at play that we simply cannot understand. More mystical texts do try to explain those spiritual mechanics: for one, it is said that a person absorbs the qualities of the animals they eat. This is why we do not eat predators or filthy animals, as we do not want to take on their aggressive or impure qualities. The kosher animals are essentially all herbivorous and docile, and it is those peaceful and calm traits that we want.
The Arizal (Sha'ar HaMitzvot on Ekev) further explains that kosher animals are those whose souls we are able to elevate. The act of slaughtering the animal in a kosher manner, reciting a proper blessing before eating it, and ingesting it into a holy human vessel allows those special spiritual sparks trapped within the animal to ascend to Heaven. The emphasis here is on holy human vessel, for if a person is unrefined and not righteous, with no connection to Heaven, they are unable to elevate any sparks at all. This is why, the Arizal explains, the Talmud states that an 'am ha'aretz (an unlearned person or one who does not keep the mitzvot) shouldn't eat any meat whatsoever! The Arizal notes that even a righteous, Torah-observant Jew should only eat meat on Shabbat and holidays, when a Jew is said to receive an additional soul. Without this extra spiritual power, it is nearly impossible to "rectify" the meat.
While it is clear that consuming pork is absolutely forbidden, what about pork by-products like gelatin? Gelatin is made by boiling and processing the bones, skins, and sinews of pigs (or cows, or fish) to produce the jelly substance used widely in the food industry. It is typically reduced to a powder that can be mixed with water. The powder itself gives no indication that it came from a pig, and certainly no longer has any taste of pork flesh. Is it still not kosher?
In Jewish law, a food that has been processed so thoroughly that it becomes tasteless (or inedibly bitter) is not considered to be "food" anymore. If one cannot enjoy from the flavour of the substance at all, then it is permitted, even if derived from a non-kosher animal (see Mishneh Torah, Yesodei haTorah 5:8). Such a substance is treated like an artificial chemical as opposed to an actual food. Similarly, something that is so putrid that even a dog would not eat it is no longer considered food.
In the case of pig gelatin, it is tasteless, and it is unlikely that a dog would consume raw gelatin powder. Even when mixed with water, many forms of raw gelatin have a horrible taste. This puts gelatin in the category of a chemical, rather than a food. Thus, using it as an additive would be permitted. Many authorities have ruled this way, including Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940) and Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank (1873-1960). Still, some modern authorities forbid pig gelatin, which is understandable considering the great aversion to all things pig in Jewish culture. Today, when there are alternatives like fish gelatin, or even carrageenan (derived from seaweed), there is no great necessity to consume products with pig gelatin.
Some medications are encased in gelatin capsules, and are fine for use.
Insulin that is derived from pigs falls under the same category. It would unarguably be permitted since it has a life-saving necessity for diabetics. Having said that, today most insulin is actually derived from genetically-modified bacteria, and recently scientists have even developed genetically-modified plants that grow human insulin!
In recent years, artificially lab-grown meat has become a reality. This type of meat is cultured in a lab from the stem cells of an animal. The meat is produced synthetically, without any need for raising or slaughtering animals. The potential benefits are tremendous, since lab-grown meat allows for only the very best tissues to be grown, and tweaked to have a perfect combination of nutrients. It prevents the need for large ranches and slaughterhouses, for the great amount of farmland used to raise food for the livestock, and all of the pollution that this entails. (Altogether, animal agriculture accounts for about half of all greenhouse gas emissions, and countless tons of sewage and toxic waste.) Scientists have successfully created lab-grown hamburgers, and an Israeli company (SuperMeat) is close to bringing cultured chicken to the market. Their chicken is healthier, uses 99% less farmland, 90% less water, and releases 96% less pollution. It appears that lab-grown meat is poised to take over in the coming decades. Is it kosher?
While the halachic issues are complex and remain to be settled by halachic authorities, some have already stated there shouldn't be any problem with lab-grown meat. In fact, since it does not come from an animal, and requires no slaughter, it wouldn't even be considered "meat" to begin with, and would likely be parve. This has been suggested by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, the rosh yeshiva of Ateret Yerushalayim, as well as Rabbi Menachem Genack of the Orthodox Union. Thus, kosher cheeseburgers may yet be on the way.
More recently, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow (of Israel's Tzohar Rabbinical Organization) stated that even lab-grown pork should be kosher. Once again, this is not an actual pig, but simply flesh cultured from a few pig stem cells. Such pork meat would never contain any blood, which the Torah states is what holds the animal's nefesh (Leviticus 17:11), nor would it come from a living animal at all. From a Kabbalistic perspective, then, there would be no spiritual sparks to elevate. It seems lab-grown pork should be kosher.
Amazingly, Jewish texts long ago stated that a day will come when pork will be kosher. For example, the Ritba (Rabbi Yom Tov of Seville, c. 1260-1320 CE) writes in his commentary (on Kiddushin 49b) that the pig is called chazir in Hebrew because in the future God will hachziro, "return" it to Israel! While we have discussed in the past that certain Torah mitzvot will be abrogated in the Messianic Era, it seems unthinkable that pork should become kosher.
More problematic still, if the Messianic Era is a return to the Garden of Eden—as prophesied—than how can there be consumption of any meat at all? There was no death of any kind in the Garden of Eden, and consumption of meat was forbidden. It was only ten generations later that God permitted Noah to eat animal flesh. It should seem that the Messianic Era would be an entirely vegetarian one, like in Eden. At the same time, though, Eden is said to have contained all the pleasures of the world—so how can it miss the pleasure associated with eating meat? (Scientific studies confirm that eating meat boosts mood and happiness, and vegetarianism has been linked with higher rates of depression.) The World to Come should certainly be entirely pleasurable!
Perhaps lab-grown meat is the answer, for it beautifully solves all of the above issues. Lab-grown meat requires no animals to die, and allows everyone to consume every kind of taste—with the added bonus of being healthier for both body and planet. We can safely return to Eden without worrying about killing animals, without worrying about destroying the environment, and without worrying about giving up the foods we delight in.
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...this should resolve the question once and for all: We are on our own.
From yesterday's Washington Post:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked about the anger of the Democratic "base" over her failure to end the war in Iraq.
"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things - Buddhas? I don't know what they were - couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk."
Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment."
Oh, well, cue the violins, Nancy Pelosi doesn't like being the target of demonstrators, who she wishes could be arrested for loitering. Poor baby. If she actually did what was necessary to rein in the militarist fantasies of President Shrub, she wouldn't have that problem. Instead, she flat out refuses to cut off funding for the war by blocking passage of funding for it, saying she "will never cut funds for troops in the field." She cravenly capitulates to Bush vetoes of any sort of restrictions by giving him whatever he wants while whining that without the votes to override, she's helpless - rather than, for example, passing the same damn bill again and telling Bush if he wants his blood money, these are the conditions, take it or leave it, and make up your damn mind. And let's not forget that originally, last spring, she didn't even want to allow a vote on a Progressive Caucus alternative with a fixed (relatively) short-term deadline for withdrawal.
But oh my the poor dear is so terribly upset. In fact, she's "seething."
"We have to make responsible decisions in the Congress that are not driven by the dissatisfaction of anybody who wants the war to end tomorrow," Pelosi told the gathering.... Though crediting activists for their "passion," Pelosi called it "a waste of time" for them to target Democrats. "They are advocates," she said. "We are leaders."
A revealing statement in so many ways. First, Nancy Pelosi regards antiwar protesters as irresponsible. That's a rude, wrong, rant, but ultimately not surprising; "passionate" "advocates" are always disparaged in such terms by "serious" people. Then there is her contention that going after Dems is "a waste of time." Which is also not surprising but still it's nice to have it confirmed that for Pelosi it's not about ending the war, it's all about attacking Republicans, it's all about electing Democrats, it's all about, as I have said so many times, positioning for the 2008 elections and continued death, destruction, and devastation are preferable to running the risk of being called "soft" on "national security."
That was actually reconfirmed by another Pelosi comment.
[A]pproval ratings for Congress, in the teens and 20s, didn't evoke regrets. "I don't like the numbers for Congress," she admitted, but "I'm very pleased with the Democratic numbers." She then took an unusual detour into polling minutiae. "Today the Rasmussen numbers were the third time that we were double-digit ahead in the generic," she reported, "and the third month in a row we were in the high 40s."
Do you get what that means? The "generic" refers to those "Are you more likely to vote for a Democrat or a Republican for Congress" questions, i.e., asking about party support rather than particular candidates. So Pelosi doesn't care that the voters who put the Democrats where they are, are pissed off at the crappy job they've done, particularly on the war - not so long as Democrats are ahead of Republicans. It's all about the politics, not about the policy. It's all about winning, not about governing. It is, when it comes right down to it, all about the party, not about the people.
Oh, but at least she finished with a joke. "We are leaders." I mean, that is a joke, right? Since the Dummycrats came into control of Congress, there are more US troops in Iraq, hundreds of billions of additional dollars have been approved for the war, no restrictions have been placed on the Shrub gangsters (the utterly toothless "benchmarks" which even the White House can't bring itself to claim are being met, an admission met with almost complete silence from Pelosi's "leaders," do not count), and based on her own accounts, Dims in the House have engaged in nothing but pure self-serving symbolism, passing legislation they know will not become law and by which, when push comes to shove, they will not stand.
If that's "leadership," I'm Fred Thompson.
I've said it, I've said it, I'm going to keep saying it: We are on our own. We cannot depend on the Dimcrats any more than we can depend on the GOPpers to get us out of Iraq until and unless we make it politically untenable for them to do otherwise. And that will not take quiet, "serious," discussions. It will take public noise and lots of it. Which means, by the way, that Pelosi's annoyance at demonstrators outside her house is a good thing because it means they're getting under her skin.
So carry it on.
Footnote: Two quickies on other Pelosi-isms.
- In response to a question about complaints that Democrats didn't go far enough on climate-change legislation, she said "We did not say we were going to do any more than we did." And just how is that an answer to the complaint? What, "We said from the beginning we were going to offer an inadequate program that doesn't solve the problem" and we're all supposed to say "Okay, yeah, great job?"
- Asked about her "greatest mistake," Pelosi said "Why don't you tell me? 'Cause I think we're doing just great." Remember when Georgie stumbled over a similar question and couldn't recall any mistakes? It seems Our Only President is not the only one so afflicted.
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