Sunday, 13 December 2009
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Mark Ingram won the Heisman trophy - his father must be so proud
The corridor of the University of Alabama, Mark Ingram, wins the Heisman Trophy of college football
NEW YORK, December 12, 2009 .- The running back Mark Ingram completed the trophy case in Alabama, winning theHeisman on Saturday for a university that has one of the richest histories in college football.
Ingram won the Heisman - the leading sports trophy - the closest vote and the history of the award. Now, the star player will try to lead Alabama to a national championship.
Ingram, who finished with 28 points ahead of Stanford running back Toby Gerhart, wiped her tears before delivering his acceptance speech. "I'ma little overwhelmed right now," he said. "I'm very excited for having brought its first Heisman Alabama.
Ingram received 227 first-place votes and 1,304 points.Gerhart had 222 first-place votes and 1,276 points, while Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, received 203 and 1145.
Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was fourth and Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman two years ago, was fifth.
Ingram and Alabama will be measured at McCoy and Texas for the national title Jan. 7.
Willis Pyle Animations
"Gerald McBoing Boing (UPA, 1951), violated all the formulas to use in industry and transformed the way of presenting an item on the display card, the stylized graphics over realism for use in Disney and elements of the story the simple gag humor.
The origin of this short is equally unusual. The script is based on the narration of a poem by Ted "Dr. Seuss "Geisel and recorded to disk by Hal Perry. The tape was already in itself strange, because it consisted almost exclusively of voices and sound effects. Geisel and Steve Bosustow, UPA producer, agreed to produce an animated short about the poem, entrusting the management of it to Bobe Cannon.
Cannon undertake an imaginative and unique work in a simple, linear style fully fund plans, but very effective. There is no depth or detail in the design, which suggest more than show, the story is the absolute protagonist of the cartoon. Bill Hurtz, designer of the short, tells the story:
"We work with a concept in which the style came directly from the story. In Gerald McBoing Boing try to get the absolute simplicity.How far can a few lines tell the story? Elemental As we become?. We developed a pattern of action that was continuous. When a character in the street turns and returns home the next cut shows him climbing the stairs, and follows in his room. We also design a movie without walls. There were no lines that demarcate the walls and ceiling.Furniture elements are positioned only in relation to the action. "
The film is beautifully animated by Bill Melendez, Rudy Larriva, Pat Matthews, Willis Pyle, Frank Smith. The designers of color, Jules Engels and Herb klynn make excellent use of it. Spot colors predominate. They are used psychologically, darkening as the rejection Gerald becomes more evident. Often the characters are not colored background still visible through them.
PA Turnpike Traffic to worsen on Toll Road
The cost of tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will increase about 25 percent from January 4, and then rise about 3 percent each January thereafter, the Pennsylvania Turnpike officials said.
The extra money will be used for improvements to the Turnpike and to pay billions of debt for roads and highways, bridges and mass transit projects throughout the state, said Joseph Brimmeier, executive director of the Turnpike Commission.
The increase means that the toll for a car to travel the 359 miles on the Turnpike, which runs from the Ohio border to the border with New Jersey, will be $ 28.45, above $ 22.75 today. The same trip for a truck of 40,000 pounds, five-axis, will cost $ 92.50 dollars, up from the current $ 74.
The last toll increase was a rise of 42% in 2004. The new increase will be the sixth since the turnpike opened in 1940, charging a penny for each mile. Higher tolls on the Turnpike were part of a dual plan approved by the State Legislature in 2007 to fund transportation projects around Pennsylvania.
But the other half of the plan, tolls on the

The costs of transiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike will rise by 25% as of Jan. 4.
Interstate 80, fell when the Federal Highway Administration is not allowed to charge tolls
I-80. The Turnpike Commission is required to provide $ 2.5 billion for state transportation projects from 2007 through 2010. Today, already has paid $ 1.2 billion of that money and pay the rest next year.
"It is clear that the mission of the Turnpike Commission has changed in the last year," said Brimmeier.
In the next decade, the Turnpike Commission will make loans totaling $ 4.6 billion to pay for their own improvement and at least $ 5.7 billion to pay for state projects. The money to pay the $ 10 trillion, plus interest, will the increased cost in tolls from the Turnpike.
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Indiana Unemployment
The misery began when their mortgage payments skyrocketed and his savings dried up, and last year was forced to sell their house and moved with his family to a rented trailer for $ 300 a month. As if this were not enough, in September the Monaco Coach Corp. closed its plant in her area, and Brink became unemployed.
Battered by tightening credit, rising fuel prices and slumping sales in recent months RV manufacturers have laid off thousands of workers, many northern and central Indiana. And Brink, part of that group of voters in overalls who closely watched during the presidential campaign is now trying to figure out how to survive.
"I always had a cushion of 2000 or $ 3000. Now I have nothing," says Brink, 38, who worked at Monaco for 14 years. "I had a job to support my family. Now I do not. It's devastating."
"I'm afraid of not being able to support my family. The whole weight on my shoulders," adds Brink, the sole breadwinner for his wife and four children, the eldest of whom is 10.
Economic anxieties about unemployment, the collapse of Wall Street and the specter of recession have come as a chill throughout this quiet stretch of U.S. homeland. The locals are alarmed by rising prices, mourning the loss of their well-paying jobs and doubt that Obama and McCain understand their concerns.
"Everybody plays on our fears now," says Jody Baugh, a welder who lost his job this month with the closing of the Monaco. "If one had to live one day as we would have a very different perspective" she says. They have not the remotest idea of the burdens of everyday life. "
For both workers, the loss of their jobs was the latest in a series of financial setbacks. The two held mortgages with variable interest rate in recent years rose so astronomical.
Brink sold his house when his payments jumped from $ 670 to $ 1050 per month. Baugh, 40, was caught in a bind even higher: rising home insurance costs, medical expenses and the common burden of having to help two of her four daughters who go to college. "They expect a family of six living on a salary of between 10 and 11 dollars an hour. It is impossible," says Baugh, heartbroken.
Both Obama and McCain are going to great lengths to gain the support of workers in the Midwest coveted. With less than six weeks before Election Day and a recent poll showed the candidates running almost even in seven states: Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Minnesota.
Industry in decline
In some of those states, unemployment remains higher than the national average. Certain corners of the region have been suffering for decades, and cities like Flint, Mich., Gary, Ind., and Youngstown, Ohio, have become symbols of the decline of the industrial Midwest. Both presidential candidates have targeted this region, with frequent visits that included a scale of Obama in Flint and one public appearance McCain in Youngstown.
While manufacturing remains a very active part of the U.S. economy, said Robert Scott, international economist at the Economic Policy Institute, between March 1998 and August of this year, the sector lost more than 4.2 million jobs.
Scott says that in recent decades has missed a wide spectrum of jobs, not only in the automobile or steel industry. The items such as electronics, tools, software, accounting and call centers also have moved overseas.
"20 years ago, people knew what he must do to secure a middle-class life with good jobs and benefits," Scott says. Now, all these roads are closed. Today it is much harder to get a job in a factory and keep " .
In Indiana, only, since 2000 manufacturing has lost 148,000 jobs, 22% of the total, according to official figures.
Obama hopes to capitalize on the frustration of workers in overalls and mobilized behind the state of Indiana, who for 44 years voting for Republicans. It will be a Herculean task, but with an unemployment rate of 8.9% in August, nearly three points above the national average, the change that Obama claims begins to make sense to Baugh, the unemployed welder. He leans over it, but want to be sure to choose someone "to help the middle class."
McCain also has its supporters. Kenny Twa, who owns a hardware company site, says he supports because "it is left to drive."Others admire his military record, but some voters here wonder if a president is enough to change the direction of the country and the economy.
Terry Swihart, fired from Monaco this spring after 28 ½ years of service, is concerned about the rising costs of medical care.
Her husband Jim, 56 years and also lost his job at Monaco, the column was operated for three years and have implants in hips and ankles. Between them they paid about $ 900 per month for expenses. "Salvage for this and that," he says, referring to the giant mortgage banks. "But to us who is going to save?"
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