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Both Joe Huffman and Gun Free Zone are writing about Vox survey which asked people whether certain guns should be banned by sight. Twenty percent of Democrats, that’s one-in-five, think even flare guns ought to be banned, and all surveyed folks are dead split on whether the Remington 700 ought to be banned. I haven’t seen the survey methodology to suggest whether it’s any good, so I’m not going to take this too seriously. But I keep saying we’re heading into heap big trouble if gun owners keep sitting on their collective posteriors.

I do think the other side is succeeding in building their movement back up again, and I believe this election has the potential to lay waste to gun rights. It’s gloomy, but I have a lot of reasons to feel gloomy about our prospects. I think a lot of people don’t believe we can end up back where we were in the 1990s. We absolutely can.

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  1. Archer says:

    Please correct your title. 20% != “One in 20”.

    I’d like to see the survey methodology myself. If you can get 20% of Democrats to say ALL guns (including flare guns) should be banned, I’m sure the question can be duplicated/reworded to get a large portion of the population to say whatever you want.

    Imagine the outrage if:
    – 20% of Democrats say voting should be outlawed.
    – 20% of Democrats say learning to read should be outlawed.
    – 20% of Democrats say Due Process is racist and all white people should be shot on sight.

    Or best yet: 20% of Democrats say these crappy, questionable surveys should be outlawed.

    (The sad part is, you could probably make these results happen.)

  2. Homo Iracundus says:

    Everyone got this part wrong, but look at the graphs:
    33% of democrats want to ban orange flare launchers!

    Obviously it’s just prog propaganda, and the methodology will turn out to be crap in 6 months, but it’s still funny.

  3. Joseph says:

    Agreed about the other side possibly starting to build some kind of momentum, even though they have a habbit of getting over zealous, revealing their real intentions, and then sabotaging themselves. Given that the media is overwhelmingly anti-2nd Amendment, we will always be at a disadvantage. Too many gunowners have been apathetic for too long since DC V. Heller and even McDonald V. Chicago. I think the seeds of destruction regarding the 2nd Amendment were planted after the 2012 election when Obama got re-elected. That in and of itself should be the foreshaddowing of the loss of our 2nd Amendment rights in the future. Identity politics and racial, religious, and gender balkanization will be the end of our society and freedoms. Take a look at the 4 to 4 tie ruling regarding the case of Obama issuing executive amnesty. The 4 democrat judges gave the approval to set the precedent that the Executive Branch can create legislation……This is a total eviseration of the separation of powers, and if Obama manged to get Merrick Garland on the court, we would have had the 5th over 4 judges ruling that the Executive Branch can make legislation on the whim……that makes the country a dictatorship.

    When Hillary turns the SCOTUS to be an official Democrat rubberstamp, she will issue semi-harsh Executive Orders, like unilaterally putting “high capacity magazines” and “assault weapons” under NFA regulation. Court challenges to the Executive Orders will go in her favor, and then the physical gun bans at ALL levels of government will come through. The courts, as Democrat rubberstamps, will rule it constitutional for the police and even the Military to kick down your door and confiscate your guns. If you get arrested or killed in the procesd, well, the Democrats will just cheer.

  4. Sigivald says:

    Ah, Vox.

    Mentioning MG3s, but not mentioning that only semiauto ones are “assault weapons” under those laws, and that there’s basically No Such Thing as a semiauto MG3.

    (And that a semiauto MG3 would be a hyperexpensive toy for enthusiasts, utterly useless for any plausible criminal activity, and itself no more powerful or dangerous than much more portable and useful rifles…

    But then that poll shows people evenly divided on a hunting rifle being “bannable” because, I presume, it has a scary bipod.

    But they always tell me “nobody wants your guns”.

    Just to, you know, ban them.

    Tooootally different.)

  5. HappyWarrior6 says:

    Yeah this is pretty much a propaganda piece.

  6. Jim Jones says:

    To be fair, if you’ve ever seen one of Mark Dice’s videos and the crazy thing that he gets people to sign up for, 1 in 5 is low! If intelligence really does distribute on bell curve, I’d say those numbers are good. /s/


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The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, once said, “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” Self-discipline is the first step towards achieving greatness. It is an essential skill that your child should possess. For, without disciplining the self, it is difficult to achieve any kind of success in life.

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Drink wine and learn about Park City colorful past with the Mines & Wines tour from the Fox School of Wine.

If you've ever wandered the streets or slopes of Park City, you've probably stumbled across a historic relic or two. From abandoned mines and tram towers to commemorative statues, history is alive and well in Park City. What can we say? We really love celebrating our past and we've found plenty of ways to do it, including an annual Miner's Day celebration that takes place every Labor Day. Whether you're a longtime local or an out-of-towner, one of the best ways to delve into Park City's mining past is via a tour. Forget a dull lecture, these five historic adventure-tours offer fun, interesting, and unique ways to explore Park City.

Mines and Wines Tour

Pair anything with wine and it's a winning combination. Hence the Fox School of Wine's signature Mines & Wines Tour. Visitors hop on a luxury minibus that shuttles them around town for a three-hour tour featuring six historic Park City locations, each of which is paired with a sippable vintage. And because it's Park City, costumes and props are encouraged. Tour is 21+ and admission is $187/person. For details and to register, call 435.655.9463, or visit foxschoolofwine.com

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Hiking is one of Park City's main summer attractions, so it makes sense to match the activity with a historic overview. Take in the natural beauty of the area and learn something along the way with one of the guided hikes at Deer Valley. The hikes depart at 8:30 a.m. from the base of Sterling Express chairlift (next to the Silver Lake Lodge), last three to four hours, cover moderately strenuous terrain, and highlight the mining history of the area. A portion of the sales go to Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History. Tours are $10/person and reservations are required. For upcoming dates, visit the Deer Valley Resort website.

Guided historic hikes at Deer Valley

Park City Ghost Tours

The spookiest tour in town, the Park City Ghost Tour highlights the seedier side of mining history with stories of bar fights, poison, revenge, and untimely deaths. Meet the ghosts that haunt our town to this day with an hour-long walking tour on Main Street. Summer tours depart daily at 8 p.m., starting at Miner's Park on Main Street; no reservation required. Tickets are $20/person, $10 kids (ages 16 and under). Winter tours (Nov. 1st - April 30th) start at 7 p.m. and require a 24-hour-advance reservation. Visit parkcityghosttours.com for additional information.

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Tucked away at the end of Silver King Drive, the Historic Glenwood Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Park City's earliest residents. On September 22, the Park City Museum and Glenwood Cemetery Association team up to deliver a glimpse into the lives (and deaths) of those who lived and worked in Park City through reenactments with actors stationed at a number of gravesites. Two tours will be offered from 10:45 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 12:45 - 2 p.m.; Space is limited, make your reservation hereTickets are $15/person and appropriate for ages 10+. For more information, call the Park City Museum at 435.649.7457.

Cruise past the old mining structures that litter the resort during the Mines to Slopes on-mountain tour at Park City Mountain.

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Undoubtedly one of the most fun ways to squeeze a bit of history into a winter vacation is via the Silver to Slopes Historic Mining Tour at Park City Mountain. During the winter, hop on this free, guided ski/snowboard tour (intermediate level required) and discover the stories behind the resort's mining era structures. Find out more about this unique tour and preservation efforts of the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History hereTours are offered daily starting at Park City Mountain Village at 10 a.m. near the Eagle Statue and 1 p.m. at the Trail Map near the top of Bonanza Express lift.

This by no means makes covers all the ways to discover Park City's history. We highly recommend popping into the Park City Museum which offers some truly fabulous exhibits (including a dungeon!), events and its own walking tour.

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Far Cry 3's co-op trailer is a swearing masterclass

British Characterisation Alert! In case you couldn't tell that Callum - the narrator of this Far Cry 3 co-op trailer - was Scottish from his name, his unquestionably authentic accent, or the caption that labels him the "Scottish thug," Ubisoft have tried to really hammer the point home with his swearing. Within the first thirty seconds he's said "wanker", "bloody", "cock-up" and "cocksucker". Crikey.

The broad stereotypes don't end there. We're also introduced to Leonard, the "crooked cop", who's Southern drawl announces that "by the time I'm done, you won't be able to tell his face from a squirrel in a woodchipper." I think that might be the most American sentence I've ever heard. Finally there's Tisha, the "ex-soldier", and Mikhail, the "Russian Hitman", although sadly we don't get to hear either of them deliver any ridiculous dialogue at all.

Away from heavy-handed caricatures, the trailer's full of explosions, stabbings, molotovs, flamethrowers, box carrying and some good old-fashioned shooting as the team attempt to retrieve their "stash". It all looks enjoyably frantic, and it's nice to see that time's been taken to create a completely separate campaign for the co-op.

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This year, Instead of our usual afterparty at PAX East, we joined forces with Acer and Intel and brought you the ultimate PC gaming hangout at the Predator Gaming Lounge.

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Acer showcased the latest Predator line of notebooks, desktops, and monitors with popular PC games and debuted their latest: Predator 17 X.

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Google is employing a big team of lawyers, engineers and paralegals who have so far evaluated over half a million URLs that were requested to be delisted from search results by European citizens, the company said.

About six months after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave Europeans the right to compel search engines to remove search results in Europe for queries that include their names if the results are “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive,” Google’s team has reviewed about 170,000 requests to delist search results that covered over 580,000 links, Google’s Global Privacy Council, Peter Fleischer, said Wednesday.

So far, about 42 percent of the requests have been granted, while about 58 percent were denied by the team, which looks at every request, according to an online tool provided by Google that tracks the takedowns in real time. A removals team handles the easy cases, while the more difficult ones are dealt with by a more senior group of lawyers and engineers, Fleischer told privacy professionals during the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels.

Google put a lot of work into the implementation because of the court’s “vague” guidance, Fleischer said.

Easy yeses, easy nos

The delisting requests fall in to three categories. “There are the easy yeses, there are the easy nos and there are the really hard cases in the middle,” he said.

One easily granted request, for example, involved a case in which photos of a woman “in a state of undress” were posted to the Web by her ex-boyfriend. Another easily granted removal involved a man who had revealed his HIV-positive status in a forum posting 10 years ago and wanted a link to it removed.

An easy denial was made to a request by an Italian politician who was convicted of accepting a bribe and wanted a link to that removed just before running for mayor, Fleischer said.

One of Google’s problems, though, is that the process is often one-sided because a decision is based on information supplied by one person using a simple Web form.

Google was also asked to remove links pointing to information about someone who was convicted a crime a long time ago. “Which on its face sounds like, why wouldn’t you do that? Except that later you find out that the person has a history of being convicted and reconvicted and reconvicted of the same crime up to the present day. Suddenly that shines a different light on that kind of a request,” Fleischer said.

Due to the vagueness of the court guidance, Google also had to fill in other parts to implement the ruling. For instance, it decided to remove links from all 28 EU country domains, as well as from the Google domains in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, countries belonging to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

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However, the links weren’t removed from the domain, which was criticized by Joe McNamee, executive director of European digital rights group EDRi who took part in the panel discussion. It is inconsistent that Google removed links to photos of scantily clad women on those 32 domains and not on the .com domain, he said.

Fleischer said that Google decided not to remove the links worldwide because it is quite clear to the company that other courts in other parts of the world would never have reached the same result as the CJEU. This will probably be an area of some discussion and disagreement, and perhaps even some further judicial review over time, he added.

Another point of critique was aimed at Google’s practice of telling a site’s webmaster that a link to their site was removed from the search results, without telling them why. This has already led to speculation about the person who requested the removal, resulting in people and media wrongly guessing who filed the request.

As the court’s verdict was silent on the rights of the webmaster, sending such a notice is also a Google decision, Fleischer said. Because removing a link could result in less traffic for a site, the company felt obliged to alert the owner. “Remember, it is not about defamation. We are talking about valid and legal content here, that is indisputable,” Fleischer said.

Google is planning to continue to delist search results in the same way in the future. While the company has struggled with the aftermath of the ruling, Fleischer said that such cases ultimately serve to strengthen human rights, so from that perspective, he welcomes future court cases. “In the end, that is good for privacy,” he said.

Whether Google’s methods please the EU’s data protection authorities remains to be seen, though. The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the group representing the authorities, is planning to provide common guidelines for dealing with right-to-be-forgotten requests after next week’s plenary session, said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, chairwoman of the French data protection authority CNIL and the WP29, during the conference. The group wants to guarantee that every person in Europe has the same protection.

The focus shouldn’t be on what the ruling means to Google, but on the people making the requests. “It means that people want to control their digital life,” she said. “We have to listen to that.”

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Mark Gil and Charee Pineda (main photo) win top acting honors in this year's Cinema One Originals Film Festival for their performances in the film Alon. Mark tied with Ronnie Lazaro (inset) for his portrayal in Yanggaw.

It's a tie for Best Actor whilean 18-year-old bagged the Best Actress award in the 2008 Cinema One OriginalsDigital Film Festival held earlier today, November 28. The star-studdedawarding ceremony took place at the Dolphy Theater (formerly Studio 1) ofABS-CBN.

Mark Gil of the Cinema One entry Alon and Ronnie Lazaro of the Ilonggofilm Yanggaw were both cited for their outstanding acting skills. Mark wasunable to attend but Ronnie was present to receive the C-shaped trophy awarded to the winners.

"Mr. Ronald Arguelles[Cinema One channel head], maraming salamat sa paglalagay mo ng enerhiya saindustriya natin," said Ronnie in his acceptance speech.

Charee Pineda, who was previously seen in the Star Cinema film A Love Storyand the Cinemanila 2008 entry Sisa, beat more senior stars when shebagged the Best Actress Award for the film Alon. In this romance drama,she plays a young girl who goes on vacation in a seaside village. She meets amuch-older man (played by Mark Gil) who becomes attracted to her even though hestill has to take care of his dying wife (Eula Valdes).

The film Yanggaw, which means "infected" inIlonggo, was the big winner during the fourth edition of Cinema One Originals.It took home the lion's share of 14 awards given out today.

Tetchie Agbayani was chosen Best Supporting Actress whileJoel Torre was named Best Supporting Actor. Bacolod native Richard Somesearned the award for Best Director and he dedicated his award to Ilonggos whenhe went up the stage to be recognized. Best Sound went to this horror film—awardedto Joey Santos and Eduardo Velasquez—while Best Editing went to Borgy Torre.

During a short break, PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) was able to talk toTetchie regarding her triumph as Best Supporting Actress. She recalls that shereceived her last acting award way back in 1993 when she appeared in Sakay.According to Tetchie, her first acting award came from the Metro Manila FilmFest entry Okay Ka Fairy Ko.

During her speech, she told the stars andstaff members of Yanggaw, "Thank you for your patience when Icouldn't get my lines [which were all in Ilonggo]."

As the recipient of the Audience Choice Award, the filmmaker of Yanggawalso gets to take home the P100,000 cash prize.

Even though Yanggaw received six awards this afternoon, the Best PictureAward went to Sherad Anthony Sanchez for the film Imburnal. Aside fromtaking home a trophy, he will also get the cash prize of P200,000.

This dramais about two boys living in the slums of Matina Aplaya in Davao. Sherad took ontwo roles this year since he also wrote the screenplay of thiscoming-of-age film, which earned the Best Screenplay Award. Imburnalalso earned the Best Cinematography award for J. Geolamen, Jose Fiola and JohnTorres.

This year's jury chose the period film Kolorete as the recipient of theSpecial Jury Prize for its "fresh and imaginative take on history and for itsbeautiful cinematography..."

Written by Sherad and directed by Ruelo Lozendo, Kolorete tackles the struggleof people in a small town during the Spanish occupation. The black-and-whitefilm also bagged the distinction of having the Best Production Design among theseven entries this year.

The Best Musical Score went to Leujim Martinez for Alon, directed by RonBryant, and shot on location in Zambales.

Other entries for the fourth edition of Cinema One Originals include SenedyQue's Dose, Jon Red's MotorCYCLE, and Roman Olivarez's UPCAT.

Toni Gonzaga opened the event when she sang the theme song of Cinema One titled"Ang Buhay Natin, Parang Sine." She kept her cool evenwhen she encountered technical difficulties before she could sing her song. Sheeven joked, "Ang buhay talaga, parang sine kaya mag-take twotayo!"

Sam Milby also graced the event to sing "Mahal Pa Rin" as anintermission number while he strummed his guitar. The presence of the matineeidol enlivened the crowd, which was composed mostly of students.

Eugene Domingo, who was part of this year's jury, brought the house down withher impromptu jokes. When she presented the Best Screenplay Award and SpecialJury Prize along with Lance Raymundo, she told the crowd, "Hurado na ako!Palakpakan! Nag-enjoy ako sa ibinigay ninyong trabaho."

This year marks the first timethat Cinema One will go on school tours to hold question-and-answersessions with filmmakers, the stars, and students about filmmaking.

Cinema One channel head Ronald Arguelles believes thatbringing the films closer to the students will be beneficial to indiefilmmakers in the long run. "This year's successful campus tour of theCinema One Originals only shows that digital films are making a mark in academe. It has also tapped the younger generation of moviegoers that CinemaOne has always been wanting to capture."

The hosts of the awarding ceremony were Bianca Gonzales and reporter AtomAraullo.

This year's entries will be screened at IndieSine, RobinsonsGalleria, from December 3 to 10.

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  1. Oct 8, 2008 #1
    1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data

    You wish to travel to another galaxy, which is 1,000,000 light years away. You'd like to be still alive when you get there. How fast must you travel? Given enough fuel, can you do this?

    2. Relevant equations

    3. The attempt at a solution
    my teacher gave us the solutions, and I would really like to know why i need to solve for gamma and what it means...please :(
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    as I don't have time to go through the derivation and what exactly gamma does I can tell you this:

    Gamma = 1/sqrt(1-(v^2)/(c^2))

    This means gamma is always bigger than or equal to 1.

    For this question you want time dilation (obviously). You should know that when you travel faster relative to something else, your clock will run slower than the stationary clock, right?

    This means that t' (time in rocket's frame) must be less that t (time in universe's frame).

    Hence, t' = t/gamma. We need to know gamma in order to solve for velocity..
    gamma = t/t'. Now we want t' to equal 50 years (I just chose a random number of years I want you to age).

    Next, we must find t (the time it would take for the spaceship to get to the galaxy in the universe's frame). In this frame: t is just the distance in the universe's frame divided by the velocity in the universe's frame. This is just: 1 000 000/v.

    Now we have one equation for gamma, and one for v and since both are related to each other, simply convert v to gamma in this equation, or convert the gamma above to v.

    Things to remember:

    when you move faster than another object, your time moves slower than the object's time. Hence why you will age slower in this question. Just remember, if gamma is 1 or greater, in order to take a time and make it smaller, you have to divide by gamma. If you multiply, then the opposite would happen.

    Since the speed of light is c in all reference frames there are certain consequences..
    Think of the mirror clock example.. In a stationary frame, the light just goes up and and so the time the light takes to go from one mirror to the other and back again is just the distance btwn the mirrors divided by c multiplied by 2. If a spaceship had one of these mirror clocks and was moving relative to you, you would also measure the speed of light to be c so:

    since the ship is moving at some x velocity, there is also an x distance (perpendicular to the mirror clock) that the light has to travel through in order to reach the other mirror. Since the speed is the same, and the distance is more (light has to travel along the hypotenuse of this distance triangle) the time has to be less! Because speed is distance/time.
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  4. Oct 8, 2008 #3
    Thanks so much. You were very helpful, and I appreciate it
  5. Oct 9, 2008 #4
    the distance is 1,000,000 light years. light travels at 3x10^8 m/s (300,000,000 m/s). therefore at 300,000,000 m/s it will take 1,000,000 years to reach your destination.

    to get there quicker, you would need to travel faster. lets say you wanted to get there in 10 years, not 1 million years

    1 million years divided by 10 equals 100,000. therefore to get to your destination in 10 years, you would need to travel at 100,000 times the speed of light.

    so 3x10^8 times by 1 x 10^5 = 3x10^13 or 30, 000, 000, 000, 000 m/s
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    It would be difficult to be more wrong. :uhh:

    The problem doesn't ask how to get there faster than light can travel, the problem merely asks if you could get there within your lifetime. Read up on relativistic time dilation. Or simply read post 2.
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    1:45 A3o seems far to tight with those stacksizes.
    Sry but 5:00 is far to marginal to risk ur big edge with AQo. I can't imagine u want to flip or get it in for 55% in that deep. U have to be pretty sure, hes on tilt to make that call. I really hate that call sry, but prob just a question of oppinion.
    10:15 I prefer pushing A4s directly in that spot, cause raising makes u extremely vulnerable to resteals, and Alesanre is def capable of them.
    11:10 checking the Flop seems fine with the bd flushdraw, but you definatley shoud raise the turn, thats about the best card in the deck for you and theres lots of Draws out there. Also you get full value out of a queen and QJ does't have you beat any more.
    And sry what you say after the hand ist complete crap. "If I would have bet the Flop and the Turn and he then would have rivered me I would have lost far more"
    30:15: He cerntainly does not need a monster Hand to push in that Spot with the passive SB and his Stack. Still the fold seems ok with taking future game into account.

    Didnt watch more, but I definatly liked ur last Videos far better than this one.
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    As for the A3, im not a fan of getting it in, especially when they make an odd play of 3x out of their 9bb stack. Had he pushed, I would have been more compelled to call.
    With the AQ, I have no problem stacking off there, as most people will show up with crap a lot of the time. However, folding is fine too.
    Pushing the A4s is fine.
    Im not really a fan of raising the AA hand, as every time they push, you are clueless where you are at but at the same time, could still be well ahead.
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    Superb video as always, some quotes:

    "Sunday Million, just like WSOP Main Event, is on of the softest games"
    "it's always kinda disheartening to play well and get nothing. Get used to it if you play tournaments"

    We demand more videos, kthxbye
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Our Crevecoeurs are standard-size, all-purpose, outdoor birds, hardy in cold and heat. Originally raised in France as fine meat birds, their meat is tender due to the short muscle fibers. Crevecoeurs are good layers of medium- to large-size, creamy white eggs. Our flock is NPIP certified and AI-free.

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I spit saliva and toothpaste. But unlike yours, mine travels 396 feet in the half-second before it disappears down the sink drain. I’m standing upright in a room small enough for me to touch all four walls without even turning around. My aluminum-skinned lavatory is seven miles above Denver making about Mach .75 (545 mph), and in just a few hours I will have traversed the entire United States. To the untrained eye, this aircraft is indistinguishable from the other planes you’d see at an airport, and for the most part is nearly the same as ones that you and I have traveled in for decades. The life-cycle arc of any technology seems to begin with great diversity and end in a form that renders products homogeneous to everything else in the category. Nowadays, almost everything looks like an Apple product.

This year marks the 113th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Natural tinkerers, they began in 1899 by systematically designing a series of gliders with the idea of powered flight as the ultimate goal. Luckily for them, the internal combustion engine had recently been invented. And by 1903, they had married a small piston engine with their glider and called it “Flyer.” It is the machine that is referred to as the world’s first powered aircraft—even though it only traveled 120 feet on its first flight.

Naturally, they sought a patent for their stacked-wing creation. When the Wright brothers placed the elevator (tail) of their airplane at the front and twin rudders at the rear, it wasn't because the inventors wanted to stand out from the crowd. Marketing had very little to do with the differences between their device and those being attempted elsewhere. There were no computer programs to guide them with center of pressure and lift-to-drag ratio models. It was simply the path they chose through trial and error, and by studying the experiments of those who came before.

The birdlike machines created by Samuel Langley in 1896 had followed a more obvious path of mimicking nature’s form—a pair of wings and an arrow-type tail at the rear. After all, birds had been flying for millennia. Sir George Cayley had envisioned and drawn a winged and tailed flying machine as early as 1799, and would later build a glider dubbed the “Boy Carrier.” But in the end, it was Wilbur and Orville whose device stole the spotlight by actually flying.

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I have a soft spot in my heart for guys like Dennis Fano, who artfully blends elements of underappreciated styling exercises of the past into something fresh looking and oh-so-right for the times. I can’t help but admire Jason Lollar’s interpretations of cheesy ’60s bargain pickups, or John Woodland’s masterful redesign of the Fender thimble bridge. I swoon when my eyes glide across the geometrically exquisite, nickel silver humbucking cover on Tom Holmes’ PAF replica, and I never tire of the dead-flat surfaces on Bill Collings’ traditional-style headstocks.

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As I hurtle towards my little workshop in New England at a speed that would have astounded the Wrights—and in comfort they couldn’t have imagined—I ponder the travails of our industry. Ideas past and nearly forgotten get reworked and presented to the accolades of a new crop of guitarists who haven’t studied the history of the craft. And what about today’s builders? Some are working on finding the next big thing, while the rest are diligently sweating the details. To all of you, I say thank you, and good luck.


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Toyota has ended its 44-year partnership with the Grand Prix of Long Beach, officials announced Thursday, Aug. 16.

Toyota Motor North America, which had been part of the races since it began in 1975, told organizers it would not renew its latest three-year contract shortly after this year’s event ended in April, said Jim Michaelian, the president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach.

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The association must now find a new title sponsor – and automotive sponsor, which Toyota has also dropped – which helps cover some of the expenses of the three-day Grand Prix.

“This is the longest entitlement package, not just in racing, but in sports,” Michaelian said Thursday morning. “They were a substantial partner all these years, not just financially. They were true partners.”

The Japanese automaker’s North American division began its relationship with the Grand Prix during the event’s inaugural year, 1975, when it began providing a pace car. The next year, Toyota created a charity match race and, in 1980, became the title sponsor. Since then, the race has been known as the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

But no more.

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“It was a very difficult decision,” said Laura Pierce, the general manager of motorsports for Toyota. “It’s been a partnership. We’re very sad and sorry to see it end.”

Toyota has ended its 44-year partnership with the Grand Prix of Long Beach, officials announced today in Long Beach on Thursday, August. 16, 2018. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

But for some, including Mayor Robert Garcia, Toyota’s departure wasn’t much of a shock.

“Once they made the decision to move most of their operations out of Southern California and over to Texas, I think a lot of us wondered if that relationship would continue,” Garcia said. “So it’s unfortunate, but we’re very grateful to them. They were here for a very long time, and I’m confident the Grand Prix will find another great sponsor.”

Pierce denied that moving the headquarters from Torrance to El Paso played a role in the company ending the partnership, noting that it still sponsors a NASCAR race in Sonoma County, the Toyota/SaveMart 350.

“While Toyota did move its North American headquarters, it didn’t impact this decision,” Pierce said. “California and Southern California continue to be a major market for us.”

Garcia said he did not expect the news to hurt next year’s race, and he declined to speculate who that “great sponsor” might be.

“We haven’t done this in 39 years,” Michaelian added, regarding trying to find a new title sponsor. “We’re looking at the marketplace and moving rapidly.”

Michaelian said the association has had meetings with some potential sponsors, both vehicle manufacturers and non-automakers, but would not disclose the names of those companies.

Michaelian and Pierce declined to say how much Toyota paid for its sponsorship.

The man who founded the Grand Prix, Chris Pook, said in a Thursday interview that he agreed with Garcia’s assessment that Toyota’s relocation probably played a role. But he also said things like TV ratings and “general media coverage” were likely considered as well.

Pook, who waged an unsuccessful campaign last year to return the Grand Prix to its Formula One roots, said the event’s IndyCar format “has slipped to a point where it’s not relevant anymore.”

Pook declined to speculate on whether Toyota would have pulled out if the Grand Prix had switched over, but he said Formula One “has grown to be by far the most powerful racing motor series in the world today. It would have been a good match for the city to continue to have that level of international promotion, but it is what it is.”

Still, the event seems to be successful, at least as described by Michaelian: In 2018, for example, the Grand Prix brought in $33 million to Long Beach and $63 million to the region. It drew a record 185,000 people.

“They were aware of the success of the event,” Michaelian said of Toyota. “They were a part of it. Coming out of the recession, we’ve had five good years.”

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach  fans gather on balconies of a downtown Long Beach high-rise overlooking the race circuit. Photo: Scott Varley

But the Grand Prix also costs a lot to put on. Long Beach charges the Grand Prix association a $91,757 permit fee and a $47,524 reimbursement fee for administrative costs, according to a staff report from December, when the City Council approved a new agreement with the association, which runs through 2023. The association must also reimburse the city for police, fire, refuse, traffic, sweeping, sewer, inspections and other services. It was not immediately know how much the association paid to Long Beach for the 2018 race.

Pierce said the decision to break away from the Grand Prix was made before the success of the 2018 event was known, but that it didn’t cause Toyota to waiver.

“This wasn’t solely a financial decision,” she said. “we are always evaluating what sponsorships are next.”

Pierce said that a lot of Toyota’s news sponsorships are based on its new mobility campaign; the company now sponsors the Olympics and the Paralympics.

She also added that the company has not evaluated whether to eventually provide a smaller scale sponsorship to the Grand Prix in the future, and she said she did not know of any other grand prix races Toyota sponsors in the United States.

As for the decision to announce the partnership’s end now, Michaelian said the association is about to send out ticket renewal notices to customers and didn’t want them surprised by the race having a new title sponsor.

“The sooner we get this done, the better for everyone, Michaelian said. “But the event in and of itself is three days of entertainment that people have come to for years. That won’t change.”

The 2019 Grand Prix is set for April 12-14.

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