| Kindred: No more excuses for a half-empty Redbird Arena
A bunch of non home-grown players who are here for the basketball more than the education. Why do I want to cheer for them? How about ripping people for not spending more time helpign their kids with homework, or volunteering at a nursing home- you know, things that actually are important in the scheme of things... " .
Conditions at Tri-Oval favor technical drivers
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. It was a drivers' course Saturday and Sunday at the Tri-Oval Speedway when the United States Snowmobile Association took over the track.Over 15 inches of ice covered the track itself, while mounds of snow were piled on the infield for the first-time event.
Usually, oval-ice snowmobile racing takes place on what else? an oval. But, of course, the Fountain City track is tri-oval in shape and that meant a little less speed and a little more conditioning.The Champs Sleds 600 Opens got up to speeds around 80 mph on the ice track. On a comparable half-mile track, the same snowmobiles will get up to nearly 100 mph.What that meant for drivers was more work steering, less throttle jamming."It favored a driver in good condition," Director of USSA competition, Jerry Korinek, said, "a driver agile enough to control the sled."This was the first year Tri-Oval Speedway owner Jeff Duellman held such an event.
Johns’ retrospective visits the Midwest
This grandiose collection boasts over 100 prints that display the culmination of Johns' talent, innovation and experience in a chronological walk through his artistic career. A palpable trademark of Johns' style is the repetition of motifs and symbols throughout his works. “Two Flags" and “Flags II" demonstrate his fascination with re-using subjects. Each print contains the American flag portrayed in a different style or color—a subject that Johns used in more then 50 drawings, 30 paintings and 14 prints. Johns reworked and transformed his subjects and motifs throughout by changing the medium, technique, color or scale to alter the form and meaning. Printmaking is a technique that allows for easy alteration and reworking of a subject matter, a main selling point for Johns when first considering printmaking.
City may move homeless from underpass to shelter
Mayor Ray Nagin's administration appears to be preparing to move the city's biggest homeless colony, a highly visible collection of people and bedrolls just off Canal Street, to a Central City emergency shelter. Some City Council members and leading advocates for the homeless say they are not aware of the plan, although the director of the New Orleans Mission confirmed that the city accepted his proposal on Friday. Nagin alluded to a plan for the homeless last week during an appearance on WWL-TV. He said he had recently seen a man in the encampment on Claiborne Avenue beneath Interstate 10 "drinking beer and just flipping the bird to citizens." Calling the scene "a mess," Nagin said that before the end of February, the city will begin enforcing its "habitation laws." "We've got more mental cases out there," the mayor said.
Fayette County man drops out of 9th District race
A Fayette County Democrat who said he was upset with U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's voting record has decided not to challenge him for the 9th District seat and instead is endorsing the incumbent.Robert "Ted" Pritchard, 56, Fairchance, said Tuesday that he has to withdraw from the race because of health and personal issues. He said he spoke with Shuster and will be supporting him, not his would-be Democratic primary challenger, Tony Barr, of Blair County.
When he announced his candidacy at the end on January, Pritchard said he was upset that the 47-year-old Republican congressmen voted against the Clean Air Act and a minimum wage increase. He also said Shuster should have introduced legislation to combat the energy crisis.After speaking with the lawmaker, Pritchard said he changed his mind."Personally (Shuster and I) see eye to eye on things," he said.
Startup plans floating data centres
A STARTUP is planning to build floating data centres on knackered cargo ships. San Francisco Bay Area company International Data Security (IDS) envisions it will have up to 50 decommissioned container ships housing data server farms, moored in various ports around the world including 22 in North American cities. IDS believes using cargo ships will give it flexibility and enable expansion limited only by the availability of ships and port space instead of real estate constraints. Its first location will be available at Pier 50 in San Francisco starting in April and it already has, ahem, anchor tenants signed, a source close to the company said. Shipboard cargo spaces will be built out as data center floors and deck space will be used to stack modular data centers in standard shipping containers.
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