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Don't worry, you can watch the video because no one was hurt in this freak accident. It's crazy, a youth hockey team in Slovakia was actually practicing in the hockey rink as the arena's roof came crashing down.
According to reports, the roof of the newly opened rink collapsed because of the weight of the snow (not unlike what happened to the Metrodome). It's so scary, you can see the ceiling bend and eventually cave under the pressure. However, it seems like everyone took their time running away from the crashing arena (until things really started getting rolling at least), RUN FASTER YOU FOOLS. Thankfully and miraculously, everyone is okay. The coach should probably teach everyone to skate faster though. [Telegraph UK]

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On Monday morning, Winchester High School's last day of classes, John Dunleavy wore a gold medal around his neck as he addressed his fellow pupils during morning announcements.
On Monday morning, Winchester High School's last day of classes, John Dunleavy wore a gold medal around his neck as he addressed his fellow pupils during morning announcements.
"I told everyone, 'Thank you for coming out and supporting me,'" Dunleavy said Tuesday. "And I said that 'I hope to win one again next year.'"
Watch him win
Dunleavy, 18, of Winchester, earned his gold medal by winning the 25-meter freestyle swimming event at this past weekend's Massachusetts Special Olympics, held on the Harvard University campus.
A competitor on many levels — from Tae Kwon Do to the academic arena — Dunleavy started training for the event months ago.
Watch John receive his medal
His father, Gerry Dunleavy, said John "beat the two-year reigning champion" in the race.John said the race was "very easy."
"I was nervous before I started," he recalled, thinking back to the moments prior to diving into the pool. "A little bit after the race, though, I knew I won."
The young champion's father said his son may compete in a national Special Olympics tournament, and possibly the organization's world games, over the next year.
"We'll take him through it now," Gerry said. "He's strong swimmer."
Winchester High School's former swim team captain, Laura Savage, a 2009 graduate, coached John for the final week preceding the games.
"With Laura training him, he made tremendous strides in the backstroke," Gerry said. "We contacted her through the school's athletic director. We wanted to pay her [for her coaching time], but she refused [payment], and said she was honored to work with John."
John competed in two swimming events — the 25-meter freestyle and the backstroke.
"He participated in the backstroke, but didn't place," Gerry said. "He tried his best, which frankly, that is also very good. When he first started, he couldn't do the length of the pool."
John swam against six finalists in the freestyle match. His finishing time was around 25 seconds.
"He beat the two-time reigning champion and even though his time was rated fourth, he won by approximately two lengths," Gerry said.
The entire weekend was a learning experience for the budding athlete.
"He was in Harvard University for the opening ceremonies Friday and stayed overnight in the dorms," Gerry said. "There were about 30 [people] in the bleachers cheering for John, between family and friends, and some were holding signs."
Gerry held a shaky video camera — the lens veering off toward the ceiling midway through the race — as he cheered for his son. On the subsequent recording, he can be heard over thousands of fellow spectators shouting commands of "focus — focus, John."
"Like most athletes, he was nervous getting into the water and at the start of the swim he was behind," Gerry said. "He then saw his friend Tom DeFranzo (his Tae Kwon Do instructor) at the finish line. John said he just focused and swam as fast as he could and ended up winning."
Gerry Dunleavy moved to Winchester from his birthplace of Doolin County Clare, Ireland, many years ago. He and his wife Toni, who hails from Dublin, Ireland, have four children — two boys and two girls.
"My oldest son John is 18 and has Down syndrome, but has accomplished much in his short life," Gerry said recently.
Down syndrome is a genetic chromosomal disorder first reported in 1866 by Dr. J. Langdon Down. The symptoms can be mild or severe, and those who live with it can experience a wide range of lifestyles.
John has earned a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do, carries the banner for a pair of famous local boxers, and walks the sidelines during high school football games, rallying his classmates to "focus" on victory.
Besides his son's weekend achievement, Gerry also found inspiration in the Special Olympic surroundings.
"If you look at the video of the race, the group [was] pretty well matched and [they were] all good swimmers," Gerry said. "From a distance, it was even difficult to notice that it was a Special Olympics event. The work of all the coaches and volunteers to stage and keep this entire event moving was astronomical."
He was also able to detect a distinct absence of animosity between competitors throughout the events.
"The whole experience was very heartwarming for the whole family and John's friends," Gerry recalled. "It was also a huge reality check for all of us to witness the determination, pride and perseverance shown by the various participants. Win or otherwise, each participant seemed to be just so happy to be involved. There was absolutely no animosity at any of the award ceremonies and no evidence of 'the Tanya Harding syndrome' at any of the events. In my view, if the sports world and the so-called real world took a peek inside the walls of Harvard Yard over the weekend, huge lessons were there to be learned."
No matter the medals won, everyone walked away with a victory last weekend.
"They were all happy for each other, and happy just to be there," Gerry said. "Win, lose or draw — they're all winners. We've lived with a special needs child for 18 years, but [we exist in] kind of a little bubble. Until this weekend, we didn't see the big picture."


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Alec Baldwin issued an apology to GLAAD on Friday after he used gay slurs to attack a reporter.
On Thursday, the former 30 Rock star launched an expletive-filled Twitter rant against a journalist who claimed that his wife Hilaria had tweeted all through James Gandolfini's funeral.
On Thursday, The Daily Mail published an article by George Stark that said, "It may not be considered funeral etiquette, but Alec Baldwin and his heavily pregnant wife Hilaria took to Twitter during James Gandolfini's service today. The pregnant yoga instructor's social media feed was full of upbeat posts ... Messages included a request for ideas about wedding anniversary presents and promotional notes about her upcoming appearance on the Rachael Ray show." (Hilaria's Twitter page shows a series of retweets, not original tweets.)
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After catching wind of the story, Baldwin immediately went on a Twitter rampage, writing, "My wife and I attend a funeral to pay our respects to an old friend, and some toxic Brit writes this f---ing trash."
He added: "George Stark, you lying little bitch. I am gonna f%#@ you up. ... I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna f——...you...up. ... I want all of my followers and beyond to straighten out this f---ing little bitch, George Stark."
Baldwin insisted that his wife didn't use her phone during the funeral. "My wife DID NOT use her phone, in any capacity, at our friends [sic] funeral. Now, f--- this twitter + good luck to all of you who know the truth," he wrote before deleting his account. (Buzzfeed has posted screenshots of his rant here.)
However, after GLAAD reached out to Baldwin, the actor issued the following comments "My ill-advised attack on George Stark of the Daily Mail had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend's funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize," Baldwin said in a statement to GLAAD. "I have worked, periodically, with numerous marriage equality organizations, especially over the past couple of years, to achieve the very rights that gay couples are earning by recent court decisions. I would not advocate violence against someone for being gay and I hope that my friends at GLAAD and the gay community understand that my attack on Mr. Stark in no way was the result of homophobia."
GLAAD's Vice President of Communications, Rich Ferraro, issued a response: "Alec Baldwin is making it clear that the intent behind his tweets does not excuse his language, especially at a time when there were 11 incidents of violence against gay men in New York City just last month. As we all work to end such senseless acts of violence, allies like Baldwin are right to use these moments to reinforce support for the community and LGBT equality."
Hours before Baldwin's comments to GLAAD were released, his rep issued a statement on behalf of Baldwin Friday morning, saying, "It's disgraceful that a reporter would manufacture and publish a story and not call for comment or explanation — especially when it's intended to take away attention from honoring the memory of a beloved figure like James Gandolfini. There are multiple witnesses to the fact that Hilaria left her phone in the car and wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't tweet during the service."
Hilaria also defended herself on Twitter, saying, "FYI I don't believe in bringing phones into a funeral and I never did and I never would."
The whole thing was possibly a misunderstanding due to the fact that Twitter converts timestamps into the time zone the person reading them is in. Hilaria also pointed out via a retweet, "When someone tweets something at a certain time, and you retweet it later, it posts the TIME the first person tweeted."
This is the third time Baldwin has deleted his Twitter account. He first shut it down after his dispute with American Airlines in December 2011 when he was told to stop playing Words with Friends on a flight. He also briefly quit last summer after marrying Hilaria.
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Discussion in 'Ride Reports - Epic Rides' started by peekay, Jul 26, 2011.
He must have lived long enough to post the photos?:huh But seriously, I hope he is alright too!
Thanks friends for the concern.
After activating the SPOT's SOS function, I turn on my satellite phone.
I have a subscription to Global Rescue's medical & security evac plan. Technically, the plan only covers emergencies where I'm seriously injured, or threatened by things like civil unrest or terrorist attacks. It's understood should you ride solo into the Baja desert during the hottest month of the year (for fun), you're on your own.
Twitter feed
I call Global Rescue's operations center anyway. They try to assess if my situation qualifies as a medical emergency. I explain that if I can't get assistance, this will turn into a medical emergency soon enough. They agree to help.
They ask basic questions which reveal my unpreparedness. Like, my sat phone's number so they can call back if we get disconnected. I don't know it. I thought I had listed the number on my Global Rescue online account profile, but I guess I didn't.
I pull out my iPhone to find the number in its contact list, but it was of no use since the phone is overheating. Not a device you want to rely on in extreme conditions! :huh
Overheating iPhone (image credit: Apple)
Somehow I manage to give them my sat phone number. I also told them my GPS coordinates -- luckily the Garmin is not overheating. They try to pull up my SPOT page from my profile but can't access it. We establish a protocol to connect every 30 minutes for updates.
I don't know if I'm stranded by the main dirt track or have accidentally veered to a side-path again. I ask if I should try to walk to a nearby settlement. They tell me to just stay put for now.
I haven't seen any other vehicles in the desert for hours, since the two amigos in the pickup truck this morning. They're long gone by now. And since everything near Puertecitos is closed, I don't expect to see anyone else to be passing by today.
I'm usually calm under pressure, but my heart is racing and I don't understand why. There's nothing else to do but wait. I'm really thirsty but I need to conserve the small amount of water I have left.
Small reserve water thermos
30 minutes pass by and my sat phone rings. The folks at Global Rescue tell me that they have no "assets" of their own nearby, but they've relayed my coordinates to the Mexican Navy (armada) who are preparing to launch a SAR team my way. They will contact me again when they confirm that the team is underway.
I'm waiting again. I'm zoning out as time passes by. I'm out of water now.
I have a headache but suddenly I hear the sound of an engine! I half expected a helicopter would show up but this wasn't it. I look from under the fly sheet, and coming down the hill towards me was a sand buggy!!!
I wave my arms and the sand buggy stopped. I can't believe my eyes -- the two kind Mexicans who helped me earlier are riding the sand buggy!!
"Agua???!", I plead with them for water.
"No, no tengo agua", the driver explains. No water. "Cerveza?", he offers instead.
For a fraction of a second I consider that drinking beer might make my condition worse, but any liquid will do right now, so cerveza it is!!
I feel too weak to even stand up so the two amigos drag me into their sand buggy and offer me a cold can of Tecate. They decide to take me to a nearby settlement.
We crowd into the sand buggy but wouldn't you know it -- the buggy wont start!! So now looks like all three of us are going to be stranded in the desert!! :eek1 I can't believe what was happening.
One of the amigos thinks the problem is just the starter, so they're going to push the buggy a bit up the hill and then attempt to bump-start it downhill. They don't let me out of the buggy to help push; I was in no condition to do so anyway.
Pushing uphill for the downhill bumpstart
The bump start works and we ride to a "campo" several miles away. Their friend Miguel (?) lives there. I hope I have his name right.
Miguel speaks fluent English and knows exactly what to do.
At Miguel's place (he's on the right)
Miguel mixes a package of electrolytes in water and I drink it slowly while laying down on a sofa. "You're not the first to crash in Baja", he says. After awhile I feel better and Miguel cuts up a bit of melon for me to eat. I call Global Rescue to update them with my location and condition. They call off the Mexican Navy team.
The two amigos
They ask what I want to do, and I reply that returning to San Felipe is probably the best option for me. Turns out the two amigos live in San Felipe so this was perfect. They can load my bike on their pickup truck and we can head back to town.
We say goodbye to Miguel and headed back to the crash site. One of the amigos is going to ride my bike to where the pickup truck is.
Back at the crash site, the two amigos struggle to pick up the bike, even with all the luggage unloaded. The sand and the angle of the bike makes it a difficult extraction. "Too hard for one person! Too much!", exclaim one of them. I nod in agreement.
We head to the pickup truck. I watch as one of the amigos ride my bike in front of us. I can only cringe seeing it swerving all over the place. It is still uncontrollable in the sand. Thankfully we don't have too far to go, to another nearby camp.
Roberto (?) lives at the camp and offers me a drink. We load the bike on the pickup truck and return to San Felipe.
It is a big relief to be back in town. We eat dinner together and then I check into a motel.
Nothing some tape can't fix
My left wrist is sprained from the fall so I get some elastic tape to wrap it. I'm exhausted and have a little headache but otherwise feel fine. It could have been much much worse.
These two guys saved my bacon
I ask the two amigos to write down their names and contact info for me. Juan Pablo and Arnoldo, Attn: San Felipe Liquor Store, they saved my behind.
I had some cash on me but no one would accept my gratitude. "Not necessary!" Of course, I insisted.
(I'll try to write a post-mortem for the last part of this episode -- but I'm hoping to be on the road again tomorrow so please bear with me as I can't promise when!)
Thanks for reading.
Nice to see you are finally sharing your stories after... oh lets see. It's about ten months.
I know today you are still alive and kicking somewhere in SA but when we chatted at the ferry terminal in Baja I had no idea you were in such a way days earlier. You played the whole thing down.
Please keep up the writing and push through and continue south. I'll be watching and reading but I think the Mexican navy is still closer if you need some help.
Wow, Peekay, that is some luck getting help from the same 2 folks. You have good Karma.
I was wondering if the satellite phone was too much gadget for the trip, but if those 2 hadn't come along again, that phone would have been your life line.
So glad that you are okay. I love how the photographer in you keeps on clicking after all the sun and sand keep beating on you.
You have to post more often (when you can), even if they are just short updates to let us know you okay.
Safe journey
Post Mortem
Sunday Rider, I didn't take many more pictures for the rest of Baja (ok, a few here and there) until some good conversations over beer which Len mentioned above. In fact there are no pictures in this update, just a post-mortem of what had happened.
I know veteran Baja riders are rolling their eyes right now at my desert n00bness. I'm not new to riding -- even raced GP bikes in my younger days -- yet up to this point I was very inexperienced "off-road": I've ridden many miles of gravel, a little mud, but almost zero sand and certainly not on a fully loaded bike.
It would be easy for me to "blame the bike" for my woes. Too heavy; Not enough clearance; Street-oriented; Etc. Yet I can say with certainty that my F650GS was/is more than capable for trip, at least with a more skilled rider on board.
I made several mistakes due to my inexperience, including: Ignoring local advice. Enroute to San Felipe I had met a couple Mexican riders who were back-tracking to Ensenada because they knew the road conditions south of Puertecitos at that time were poor. Conditions change all the time in this part of Baja, and I'm not surprised if the sections I had trouble with are beautifully paved today.
Tire pressure. I should have lowered my tire pressure for the sand. I didn't, based in part from conflicting advice about TKC80 off-road pressure. Or more likely, my incorrect interpretation of what was being discussed. I think not airing down was a significant factor affecting the handling of the bike.
Leaving too late. I ended up getting stranded during the hottest time of the day, in the hottest month of the year. Leaving late also meant that I skipped breakfast (and later lunch since Cowpatty's was closed) -- robbing me of energy when I later need it most.
Unpreparedness. I brought enough water for minor trouble, but not for the "worst-case" scenario.
About dehydration
While I recuperated in San Felipe that evening, I got a nice follow-up email from an EMT/paramedic at Global Rescue. He cautioned that my headache and exhaustion might be the result of mild-to-moderate dehydration itself.
He also mentioned that other symptoms of dehydration include extreme thirst, confusion, and fast heartbeat. Check, check, and check
exactly how I felt in the desert. Yet I wasn't drinking -- I was rationing the little water I had left, while in reality I was already well behind the dehydration curve, and I didn't recognize the symptoms. I think the old saying is true: drink before you get thirsty.
SPOT Messenger SOS service
I have mixed feelings about the SPOT / GEOS Alliance SAR service performance. Pressing that SOS button is like a big leap-of-faith. I didn't know if GEOS even got my distress signal until I received a voicemail from them that evening, back in San Felipe (I guess they tried to call but I missed it.)
GEOS did call my emergency contact, and notified her that they had spoken to the Mexican Navy -- after it was all over apparently. So they were able to tell my friend that I was safe and sound, which is good.
I stayed in San Felipe for an extra day. I hated, truly hated the feeling that I had failed to reach my goal. Lots of people ride the east coast of Baja without incident, why not me? Gonzaga Bay, Alfonsina's, having beers with Coco, were high on my to-do list.
I was keen on trying again, making a second attempt. Of course I knew that would be stupid, to push my luck too far, and a disservice to everyone who had helped me yesterday to get back safely.
So with my tail between my legs, I rode back west to Ensenada. I was gutted.
Subscribed I'm leaving for Argentina in January and rode your same route in Baja this last January, much cooler. Glad you survived your ordeal, yikes. I tend to over prepare but I've been in enough situations to know things can go south very fast. Thanks for posting about the SPOT, I've carried one since they came out and always wondered if anything would happen if I pushed the magic button. What kind of point and shoot do you have? Oh - I keep my TKC80's at 30 psi on all terrain and crank up my Steering Stabilizer (hand of God) if things get too squirrely
How did you circumvent the Darian? Any recommendations? Ride safe.....!
Dude I rode that route a couple months ago. The section where the pavement ends was the hardest part! The heavy equipment was gone but they had torn up the area so much it took me a while to find the correct road to Gonzaga. Alot of churned up soft sand. Turn your experience into wisdom.... ride baja in the cooler months, it was beautiful in April.
Glad you made it out, thanks for sharing, enjoyed the photos.
As a friend of ours (Striking Viking) likes to say... "the adventure begins when things go awry"... hopefully, you'll get back on track.. what a great adventure so far!! Stuck this thread for a while to give inmates a chance to enjoy this little gem.. awesome pics btw..
yep i concur have done that whole bit on a klr 650 was around 100 degrees but left early and was by myself also.Made it but anything can happen at any time.I carry pedilite at all times and water.Glad you made it safely.There is now a Pemex and store at Alfonso's corner.it will be paved sadly in a year or less.
Hi Peekay
very nice report , and adventure :huh
I am very very glad that you have just got a little scared and nothing else !
in reality things could have gone must worst .
I would like to add just a comment on why things went "wrong"
basicly because you had within your self all the assurance of a rescue :eek1:eek1:eek1
it could seem a contradiction , but if we restart all over again :
no satt. phone .
no GPS !
no one to call in case of....., no rescue , you are only on your own forces .
well I bet you would have started that route much more carefully and prepared .
tyre pressure on a bike is not a great issue on sand , you can gain a little , but on rocks you will have high risks .
the eccess weight was the major problem
from what I saw on your bike , there was much too much stuff that was pulling you into the sand .
with that weight , you are forced to run very fast on track , or sink with an uncontrollable front wheel .
which is not easy at all .
off road driving skills are also very important , they can help a lot in avoiding to fall .
I am sure this small accident will give you much more of what it has taken .
good luck Ago
Hi donnh, I use a Canon S95, which is fantastic. There's a newer version now (the S100). Sometimes I wish I have a waterproof camera but I know the picture quality wont be as good. It's a compromise. I chose the S95 because it is small enough to fit in my pocket. If you don't mind a slightly larger size, the Canon G series cameras are excellent.
I actually sent my bike using Girag Air Cargo, since I crossed in December during rough seas (most of the boats had stopped sailing until January). There have been some complaints about them but I had no issues whatsoever.
Unless the rumored Ferry to Colombia becomes reality by the time you're ready to cross, the usual and maybe best option is still to cross by boat through the San Blas islands. There are many reputable operations (such as the Stahlratte or Fritz the Cat) but perhaps avoid the MetaComet.
Will do satchmo! I will visit Baja again, if for nothing else to again thank the guys who bailed me out.
Good note about carrying electrolytes bilborides. Any thoughts about using normal Gatorade instead of pedialyte?
Ago there's definitely much truth in what you say! To an extent at least? As an imperfect analogy, I can ride faster because I wear a helmet -- I would definitely ride more slowly / deliberately / safely(?) if I didn't have a helmet. That doesn't mean I shouldn't wear a helmet, right? I tend to think a sat phone / SPOT / GPS as safety devices, like a helmet. But as you point out, all these things might extend our comfort zone maybe too much.
Thanks GB, but I'm afraid the rest of my ride through Baja isn't anywhere as "exciting".
I rode back to Ensenada and was feeling sorry for myself. I really considered just going home.
The bike's left control quadrant (turn signal, ABS switch, horn, etc.) was damaged in the crash, and I was going to use that as an excuse to ride back up to San Diego to get parts. But I managed to fix it so there went that excuse.
Quick fix
I lost confidence in my riding abilities but I decided to continue the trip. I had dreamt of this trip for so long, I wasn't ready to give it up just yet. But to be honest, part of it was driven by shame -- what would my friends & family think if I returned early? If I failed to reach my destination? I know I should ride for my own enjoyment and forget what everyone else thinks, but a bruised ego is a tough motivator sometimes.
I programmed my GPS for Catavina -- an oasis in the Baja desert -- 375 km south of Ensenada along the (paved) west coast route of MEX-1. That's outside my bike's fuel range so I planned a stop about two-thirds of the way in El Rosario.
There was a ton of construction happening throughout MEX-1, and I was pretty hungry when I finally arrived in El Rosario. Mama Espinoza's restaurant is a Baja institution since the 1930s. I gassed up then sat down for some yummy food at Mama's.
Mama Espinoza's in El Rosario is a Baja institution
After El Rosario I only had a short ride to Catavina. I loved the scenery there! It looked like a "proper" desert, the kind you see on TV, with tons of cactus everywhere.
MEX-1 on the way to Catavina
It's nice to be on the road again. Approaching Catavina, I see that it's quite a small, with only a few buildings here and there.
Small town Catavina
Hotel Mision Cataviña is the one (and only) hotel in town.
Hotel Mision Catavina
There's an abandoned PEMEX pump at the hotel's parking lot; the gas station has been closed for years. There's a guy across the street selling gas from plastic jugs.
Filling up
I walked around admiring the scenery. Some of cactus looked pretty funny, people say like a giant upside down carrot. They's called Los Cirios in Spanish (Boojum trees in English).
Boojum tree looks like an upside-down carrot
Then I stumbled across this, uhh, a car garden??
The sun was setting and I enjoyed the desert vistas.
Sunset at Catavina
Mision Cataviña used to be part of the Desert Inn chain. New management took over and renovated the hotel. They did a pretty good job.
Hotel Mision Catavina
I retire for the night; tomorrow the plan is to cross the state lines to Baja California Sur.
I wish you well my friend on your adventure south of the border from a fellow Cunuck.Be safe and enjoy.Thanks for the RR and great pictures.
Fantastic journalism from the road! Great photos! Be safe and be well!
just over 20 years ago my wife and I rode bicycles down Baja working our way to Guadalajara. Your photographs and text have reminded me of that wonderful experience. Now, we both finally started riding motorcycles and how I would love to do a trip like yours. My very best wishes Peekay. I look forward to following your travels. Rod. Australia
Awesome adventure....!
Keep up.... Be well..!!
Great journalism and stunning photography, a really enjoyable ride report!
[You're in Baja California. What do you mean by "you crossed in december"... Is my geography all screwed up or what? You're still in Mexico, how could you have crossed the darien? I'm all mixed up here...
I actually sent my bike using Girag Air Cargo, since I crossed in December during rough seas (most of the boats had stopped sailing until January). There have been some complaints about them but I had no issues whatsoever.
Unless the rumored Ferry to Colombia becomes reality by the time you're ready to cross, the usual and maybe best option is still to cross by boat through the San Blas islands. There are many reputable operations (such as the Stahlratte or Fritz the Cat) but perhaps avoid the MetaComet. [/QUOTE]
I believe there is significant lag time between the spectacular ride and the ride report. Perhaps GB decided to sticky this thread in order to encourage peekay to move forward with his next installment...
I have a feeling this is only going to get better as the trip progresses.
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Feds: Priest charged with selling meth
Ex-Bridgeport monsignor faces life in prison
A prominent priest who served as pastor of St. Augustine's Cathedral parish in Bridgeport and was a close aide to then-Bishop Edward Egan was indicted on charges he was part of a drug ring that conspired to sell methamphetamine.
Msgr. Kevin Wallin of Waterbury was arrested on a criminal complaint Jan. 3 after a joint investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Connecticut State Police Statewide Narcotics Task Force.
Wallin, 61, resigned from his position at St. Augustine's, the main church of the Bridgeport diocese, in 2011, citing health and personal problems. He had previously served as pastor of St. Peter Parish in Danbury from 1996 to 2002, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1984.
Wallin was charged with six counts in the indictment Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Bridgeport and faces up to life in prison if he is convicted.
"News of Msgr. Kevin Wallin's arrest comes with a sense of shock and concern on the part of the Diocese and the many people of Fairfield County who have known him as a gifted, accomplished and compassionate priest," said Brian Wallace, director of communications for the Diocese of Bridgeport.
Wallin also worked as secretary to bishops Walter Curtis and Edward Egan in Bridgeport prior to his appointment in Danbury.
While in Bridgeport, he was a trustee at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield and served on the board of directors for the Bridgeport Catholic Elementary School system.
U.S. Attorney David Fein praised the work of local and federal law enforcement in uncovering the alleged drug ring.
"The hard work of the DEA and the Connecticut State Police in this case resulted in the dismantling of what we allege was a significant methamphetamine distribution organization that spanned from California to Connecticut," Fein said.
Investigators used court-authorized wire taps, controlled drug buys, physical surveillance and undercover officers to unravel the conspiracy, authorities said. Agents raided Wallin's apartment on Golden Hill Street in Waterbury on Jan. 3 and found suspected methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and drug packaging materials, according to the indictment.
Federal officials said Wallin allegedly received drug shipments from co-conspirators in California on six occasions between September 2012 and January 2013. An undercover officer then purchased the drugs from Wallin, officials said.
Wallin was granted a sabbatical by the diocese in July 2011.
"During his sabbatical, the Diocese became concerned about Msgr. Wallin's well-being and have continued to reach out to him," Wallace said. "To date, he has not spoken directly with diocesan officials."
Wallace added that Wallin's "faculties for public ministry were suspended in May 2012, and he has not been reassigned. The Diocese stands ready to help as it has throughout the past two years. We ask for prayers for Msgr. Wallin during the difficult days ahead for him."
Wallin was charged with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine and 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and six counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
He faces a minimum prison term of 10 years and a maximum prison term of life and a fine up to $10 million on the conspiracy count and a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million on each of the possession charges.
Four others -- two Connecticut men and a man and woman from California -- were arrested as part of the probe into the sales of methamphetamine, a stimulant that causes a "rush of euphoria," after it is smoked, taken as a pill, snorted or injected, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Research from the Department of Justice shows that the drug, often referred to as "meth," is more common in the western portion of the country, where it is both produced in small-scale labs and smuggled in from Mexico.
The other four arrested were each charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine: Kenneth "Lyme" Devries, 52, of Golden Hill Street, Waterbury; Michael Nelson, 40, of Buckland Hills Drive, Manchester; Chad McCluskey, 43, of San Clemente, Calif.; and Kristen Laschober, 47, of Laguna Niguel, Calif.
All five remain in custody, officials said. It wasn't immediately clear if Wallin or any of the other accused have hired attorneys.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patrick Caruso and H. Gordon Hall are prosecuting the case.


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When you buy universal life insurance, the policy provides for a level planned premium amount. But you don't have to make regular or level payments each payment period (e.g., monthly, quarterly). You can make larger or smaller payments, more or less frequently than planned. With each payment you make, your insurance company deducts a portion for administrative expenses related to your policy. The remainder is credited to a cash value account, from which the cost of insurance coverage is deducted each month. Your policy will remain in force as long as you maintain a positive balance in your cash value account, even if you didn't make the planned premium payments. Your cash value accumulates tax deferred and at current interest rates determined by the company (though a minimum rate of interest is guaranteed*).
With universal life, you can also increase or decrease your policy's death benefit as your financial circumstances change. You can generally lower the death benefit at any time, but if you want to raise the amount of coverage, you'll need to go through the company's underwriting process again, which may include a new medical exam. And one of the unique features of a universal life policy is that you can choose a level or enhanced death benefit.
The level benefit option is usually known as option 1 or option A. Under this option, your beneficiary receives a minimum guaranteed amount when you die*. This amount is made up of the cash value and the pure insurance known as the net amount at risk. The higher the amount of your cash value, the lower the amount of insurance coverage you must pay for. For example, if you own a $200,000 policy with $50,000 of current cash value, you pay the cost of only $150,000 of pure insurance coverage. Your premium requirement is lower than if you had no cash value and the full $200,000 of coverage.
Option 2 or option B allows you to add the cash value to the face amount when the death benefit is paid. For example, if you die when you have $50,000 of cash value within your $200,000 policy, your beneficiary receives $250,000. But this additional amount is not free--the increased benefit means that you will pay for $200,000 of pure insurance coverage throughout the life of the policy, no matter how much your cash value grows.
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Your policy contract as well as the annual statement of your universal life policy reveals all aspects of its cost structure, including the monthly cost of insuring your life, the amount of interest credited to your cash value account, and expenses. This information is not readily available on the contracts and annual statements of other types of policies. Once the policy is purchased, you cannot really manage a universal life policy except for death benefit and premium changes, loans, and so on.
As with most permanent life insurance policies, you can obtain loans from your insurance company by using the cash value of your universal life policy as collateral. Loans are assessed interest at current or fixed rates. Borrowing against the cash value of your policy will affect the growth of your cash value. Be aware that if you can't pay back a loan, the proceeds payable to your beneficiary will be reduced by the amount of all outstanding loans and accumulated interest at your death.
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Performance of a Two Coprocessor Workstation
The script in Listing Three was used to optimize a 2x10x1x10x2 autoencoder using the
mpiTrain executable in both the
pca_mpi and
nlpca_mpi directories. Note the data sets were individually generated using
genData for each MPI client. A different seed is passed to
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Listing Three: The RUN_MPI script.
APP=pca_mpi NUM_NODES=2 EXAMPLES=`expr 30000000 / $NUM_NODES` VAR=0.1 NUM_CLIENTS=`expr $NUM_NODES - 1` for i in `seq 0 $NUM_CLIENTS` do ./gen_$APP $APP.train.dat.$i $EXAMPLES $VAR $i & done wait mpiexec -np $NUM_NODES ./mpiTrain_$APP.off $APP.train.dat $APP.param $APP.timing.txt ./gen_$APP $APP.pred.dat 1000 0 1 ./pred_$APP $APP.param $APP.pred.dat > output.txt # create file for gnuplot tail -n +3 output.txt > plot.txt rm *.dat.*
The following results are based on a 12-core 3.3 GHz X5680 Westmere workstation containing two Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
The PCA run utilized 15 million examples per MPI client. The overall average MPI runtime for 30-million examples on two Intel Xeon Phi devices was 1,621 GF/s. The average sustained performance on the master was 810 GF/s, which indicates the MPI code is delivering a 2x speedup with two coprocessors.
$ sh RUN_MPI Number of tasks= 2 My rank= 0, number clients 2 myFunc generated_PCA_func LINEAR() nExamples 15000000 Number Parameters 83 Optimization Time 58.5383 found minimum 39.97145961 ret 1 ----------- performance times for the Master ---------- number OMP threads 240 DataLoadTime 2.10481 AveObjTime 0.00236871, countObjFunc 24432, totalObjTime 57.8723 Estimated flops in myFunc 128, estimated average GFlop/s 810.569 Estimated maximum GFlop/s 874.763, minimum GFLop/s 7.33881 ----------- performance times for the MPI run ---------- function: generated_PCA_func LINEAR() totalExamples 3e+07 AveObjTime 0.00236871, countObjFunc 24432, totalObjTime 57.8723 Estimated flops in myFunc 128, estimated average TFlop/s 1.62114, nClients 2 Estimated maximum TFlop/s 1.74953, minimum TFLop/s 0.0146776
Figure 4: Results of a two client PCA optimization using MPI.
In comparison, the multi-coprocessor PCA code in the previous article (which did not utilize the MPI API) reported 1,523 GF/s on the same sized problem. This indicates both the MPI and multi-coprocessor applications run at the same speed. However the MPI code on a single workstation utilizes shared memory for client communication. It is likely that a physical network interface connecting two distributed computational nodes will probably exhibit lower performance.
The average sustained performance for an NLPCA optimization utilizing 30 million examples on two coprocessors is 669 GF/s. This is approximately twice the performance of the master node that reports a 334.5 GF/s average performance.
$ sh RUN_MPI Number of tasks= 2 My rank= 0, number clients 2 Number of coprocessors per node= 2 myFunc generated func Eliott activation: x/(1+fabsf(x)) nExamples 15000000 Number Parameters 83 Optimization Time 900.006 found minimum 45.02399591 ret 6 ----------- performance times for the Master ---------- number OMP threads 240 DataLoadTime 1.97757 AveObjTime 0.0084287, countObjFunc 106177, totalObjTime 894.934 Estimated flops in myFunc 188, estimated average GFlop/s 334.571 Estimated maximum GFlop/s 342.978, minimum GFLop/s 10.0361 ----------- performance times for the MPI run ---------- function: generated func Eliott activation: x/(1+fabsf(x)) totalExamples 3e+07 AveObjTime 0.0084287, countObjFunc 106177, totalObjTime 894.934 Estimated flops in myFunc 188, estimated average TFlop/s 0.669142, nClients 2 Estimated maximum TFlop/s 0.685956, minimum TFLop/s 0.0200723
Figure 5: Results reported for a two client NLPCA MPI run.
In comparison, the multi-coprocessor NLPCA code in the previous article (that did not utilize the MPI API) reported 660 GF/s on the same sized problem. This result indicates both the MPI and multi-coprocessor applications run at the same speed. As noted, it is likely that a physical network interface connecting two distributed computational nodes will probably exhibit lower performance.
Performance on Stampede
The TACC Stampede system is a 10 PFLOPS (PF) Dell Linux Cluster based on 6,400+ Dell PowerEdge server nodes, each outfitted with 2 Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge) processors and a single Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor. The aggregate peak performance of the Xeon Phi processors is greater than seven petaflops.
The 56GB/s FDR InfiniBand interconnect consists of Mellanox switches, fiber cables, and HCAs (Host Channel Adapters). Eight core 648-port SX6536 switches and more than 320 36-port SX6025 endpoint switches (2 in each compute-node rack) form a 2-level Clos fat tree topology, illustrated in Figure 6. Core and endpoint switches have 4.0 and 73 Tb/s capacities, respectively. There is a 5:4 oversubscription at the endpoint (leaf) switches (20 node input ports: 16 core-switch output ports). Any MPI message is 5 hops or less from source to destination.
Figure 6: Stampede network architecture (courtesy of TACC).
The Texas Advanced Computing Center kindly provided access to their system during preproduction testing and follow-up. The scaling curve (in Figure 7) demonstrates near-linear scaling to 3000 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. This graph shows average sustained performance of 2.2 PF/s using 300 nodes. The maximum reported performance was nearly 3 PF/s. It is likely the average sustained performance will increase to 4.6 petaflops once Stampede receives all 6400 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
Figure 7: Observed scaling to 3000 nodes of the TACC Stampede supercomputer.
Extraordinary Research Opportunities
The ability to access petaflops of performance with compute clusters containing multiple Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors opens the door to extraordinary research opportunities. For example, the 256-node runs provided an average performance that exceeded the theoretical peak performance of the $30-million PNNL Chinook supercomputer. Even small research organizations can afford a 256-node Intel Xeon Phi computational cluster. Further, the performance of this tiny portion of the Stampede supercomputer approaches that of the TACC Ranger supercomputer.
While this tutorial series has focused on optimization and machine learning, the petaflop era opens new vistas for climate modeling and prediction, materials modeling, brain modeling, and a wide assortment of other computational based areas of research.
This article demonstrates how to utilize Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors to evaluate a single objective function across a computational cluster using MPI. The example code can be used with existing numerical optimizations libraries to solve real problems of interest to data scientists. Performance results show that the TACC Stampede supercomputer is indeed capable of sustaining many petaflops of average effective performance. In other words, "Effective Performance" or "Honest flops" that take into account all communications overhead. Small compute clusters containing 256 nodes, which are affordable for schools and small research organizations, have the ability to exceed the peak theoretical performance of multimillion-dollar machines that are still operational at the smaller U.S. national laboratories, and deliver performance that approaches that of even large leadership-class supercomputers that are only a few years old.
Rob Farber is a frequent contributor to Dr. Dobb's on high-performance and massively parallel computing topics.
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A Magical Year
2016 has been a magical year for me.
During the first week of December 2015, I declared that 2016 was going to be Magical.
I had no idea at the time what that meant
During 2016:
I have attended five courses, as a guest, free of charge.
I listened to Anita Moorjani speak about her death experience and how she cannot explain logically what happened, but she can only use Metaphor to tell us what it was like. See her Ted talk where she describes her warehouse and her flashlight.
I heard Greg Braden talk about HeartMath and met my friend Trinley, a Buddhist monk.
So I became a Heart Math coach.
My Romanticism has reached a whole new level of understanding and reciprocation, and I gained an understanding of the law of vibrational energy and have been calling things and people to myself, throughout the year.
So what is the biggest realisation that I made?
I have discovered a while back, that our consciousness uses a different language to our unconscious expression and in 2016 I began to understand that both are vital if we are to be fully self-expressed and have a true sense of reality or a greater perception of how it is.
It seems to me that Conscious language is mainly about time whereas unconscious language is more concerned with space.
Hence both are needed to create reality, i.e. Time and Space.
If you believe that it is our use of words that creates our reality, then it is not too far from realising that we could be magicians who cast spells each time we speak and that the quality of our life is consistent with the spells that we have been casting.
So what of unconscious linguistics?
The language of unconsciousness cannot be logical. After all it's, not a conscious expression.
It probably occurs to us as if we are making stuff up. It's all made up.
But it is the unconscious mind expressing itself using the only language it can; metaphor and stories.
But in the spatial context, the closer the metaphoric expression exists to the speaker, the more realistic it is
Stepping into The Miraculous.
So if 2016 has been magical then what becomes possible is for 2017 to be miraculous.
What linguistic capability would be involved in that?
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Software (R programs)
A Segmented Measurement Error Model for Modeling and Analysis of Method Comparison Data (2020, Statistics in Medicine) R Code, Illustration, digoxin.txt
Modeling and Analysis of Functional Method Comparison Data (2020, submitted) R Code, Illustration 1, Illustration 2, y1.txt, y2.txt
Computing the average posterior probabilities involved in sample size determination for planning method comparison studies using Yin et al. (2008, Statistics in Medicine, 27, 2273-2289)
Implementing the tests for agreement described in Choudhary and Nagaraja (2007, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 279-290)
Computing the two-stage sample size for test of agreement with a gold standard using Choudhary and Nagaraja (2005, Sequential Analysis, 24, 237-257)
|Choudhary, P. K., Nagaraja, C. H. and Ng, H. K. T. (2015) Ordered Data Analysis, Modeling and Health Research Methods - In Honor of H. N. Nagaraja's 60th Birthday, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol. 149, Springer.
|Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2017) Measuring Agreement: Models, Methods, and Applications, Wiley. A companion website supplements the book with R code and datasets.
Short Courses
Analysis of Continuous and Categorical Method Comparison Data, Joint Statistical Meetings, July 30, 2018, Vancouver, Canada
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Classification Using R , MESIO UPC-UB XIII Summer School, June 17-21, 2019, Barcelona, Spain
In peer-reviewed journals
Rankothgedara, L. N. K. and Choudhary, P. K. (2020) A segmented measurement error model for modeling and analysis of method comparision data (with supplement), Statistics in Medicine, in press.
Zhang, L., Papachristou, C., Choudhary, P. K. and Biswas, S. (2020) A Bayesian hierarchical framework for pathway analysis in genome-wide association studies, Human Heredity, in press.
Li, X., Choudhary, P. K., Biswas, S. and Wang, X. (2018) A Bayesian latent variable approach to aggregation of partial and top-ranked lists in genomic studies, Statistics in Medicine, 37, 4266-4278.
Chowdhury, M., Euhus, D., Banu, A., Umbricht, C., Biswas, S. and Choudhary, P. K. (2018) Validation of a Personalized Risk Prediction Model for Contralateral Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 170, 415-423.
Chowdhury, M., Euhus, D., O'Donnell, M., Onega, T., Choudhary, P. K. and Biswas, S. (2018) Dose-Dependent Effect of Mammographic Breast Density on the Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 170, 143-148.
Rathnayake, L. N. and Choudhary, P. K. (2017) Semiparametric Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal Method Comparison Data, Statistics in Medicine, 36, 2003-2015. R Code, Illustration
Chowdhury, M., Euhus, D., Onega, T., Biswas, S. and Choudhary, P. K. (2017) A model for individualized risk prediction of contralateral breast cancer, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 161, 153-160. CBCRisk R Package, CBCRisk Web App
Rathnayake, L. N. and Choudhary, P. K. (2016) Tolerance bands for functional data , Biometrics, 72, 503-512. R Code and Illustration
Nawarathna, L. S. and Choudhary, P. K. (2015) A heteroscedastic measurement error model for method comparison data with replicate measurements , Statistics in Medicine, 34, 1242-1258.
Burbano M., Wilson, T. G. Jr., Valderrama, P., Blansett, J., Wadhwani, C. P., Choudhary P. K., Rodriguez, L. C., and Rodrigues, D. C. (2015) Characterization of cement particles found in peri-implantitis-affected human biopsy specimens, International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants, 30, 1168-1173.
Brulez, K., Choudhary, P. K., Maurer, G., Portugal, S. J., Boulton, R. L., Webber, S. L. and Cassey, P. (2014) Visual scoring of eggshell patterns has poor repeatability, Journal of Ornithology, 155, 701-706.
Choudhary, P. K., Sengupta, D. and Cassey, P. (2014) A general skew-t mixed model that allows different degrees of freedom for random effects and error distributions, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 147, 235-247.
Nawarathna, L. S. and Choudhary, P. K. (2013) Measuring agreement in method comparison studies with heteroscedastic measurements, Statistics in Medicine, 32, 5156-5171.
Yu, X., Baron, M. and Choudhary, P. K. (2013) Change-point detection in binomial thinning processes, with applications in epidemiology, Sequential Analysis, 32, 350-367.
Assaad, H. and Choudhary, P. K. (2013) L-statistics for repeated measurements data with application to trimmed means, quantiles and tolerance intervals, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 25, 499-521.
Shelor, C. P., Kirk, A. B., Dasgupta, P. K., Kroll, M., Campbell, C. A. and Choudhary, P. K. (2012) Breastfed Infants Metabolize Perchlorate, Environmental Science & Technology, 46 , 5151-5159.
Kalra, IS, Alam, MM, Choudhary, PK, Pace, BS (2011) Kruppel-like Factor 4 activates HBG gene expression in primary erythroid cells, British Journal of Haematology, 154, 248-259.
Chou, JL, Shenoy, DV, Thomas, N, Choudhary, PK, Laferla, FM, Goodman, SR, Breen, GA (2011) Early dysregulation of the mitochondrial proteome in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, Journal of Proteomics, 74, 466-479.
Ghatpande, SS, Choudhary, PK, Quinn, CT, Goodman, SR (2010) In vivo pharmaco-proteomic analysis of hydroxyurea induced changes in the sickle red blood cell membrane proteome, Journal of Proteomics, 73, 619-626.
Igic, B., Hauber, M. E., Galbraith, J. A., Grim, T., Dearborn, D. C., Brennan, P. L. R., Moskat, C., Choudhary, P. K. and Cassey, P. (2010) Comparison of micrometer- and scanning electron microscope-based measurements of avian eggshell thickness, Journal of Field Ornithology, 81, 402-410.
Choudhary, P. K. (2010) A unified approach for nonparametric evaluation of agreement in method comparison studies . The International Journal of Biostatistics, 6, issue 1, article 19. Available at http://www.bepress.com/ijb/vol6/iss1/19
Choudhary, P. K. and Yin, K. (2010) Bayesian and frequentist methodologies for analyzing method comparison studies with multiple methods . Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2, 122-132.
Hryniewicz-Jankowska, A, Choudhary, PK, Ammann, LP, Quinn, CT, Goodman, SR (2009) Monocyte protein signatures of disease severity in sickle cell anemia, Experimental Biology and Medicine, 234, 210-221.
Yin, K., Choudhary, P. K., Varghese, D. and Goodman, S. R. (2008) A Bayesian approach for sample size determination in method comparison studies. Statistics in Medicine, 27, 2273-2289.
Choudhary, P. K. (2008) A tolerance interval approach for assessment of agreement in method comparison studies with repeated measurements. J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 1102-1115.
Ghatpande, S.S., Choudhary, P.K., Quinn, C.T. and Goodman, S.R (2008) Pharmaco-proteomic study of Hydroxyurea-induced modifications in the sickle red blood cell membrane proteome, Experimental Biology and Medicine, 233, 1510-1517.
Choudhary, P. K. (2007) Semiparametric regression for assessing agreement using tolerance bands . Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 6229-6241.
Choudhary, P. K. (2007) A tolerance interval approach for assessment of agreement with left censored data . J. of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 17, 583-594.
Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2007) Tests for assessment of agreement using probability criteria, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 279-290.
Hryniewicz-Jankowska, A, Choudhary, PK, Goodman, SR (2007) Variation in the monocyte proteome, Experimental Biology and Medicine, 232, 967-976.
Choudhary, P. K. and Ng, H. K. T. (2006) Assessment of agreement under non-standard conditions using regression models for mean and variance, Biometrics, 62 , 288-296.
Chou, J., Choudhary, P. K. and Goodman, S. R. (2006) Protein profiling of sickle cell versus control RBC core membrane skeletons by ICAT technology and tandem mass spectrometry, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters, 11, 326-337.
Svatek, R. S., Shulman, M., Choudhary, P. K., and Benaim, E. (2006) Critical analysis of prostate specific antigen doubling time calculation methodology, Cancer, 106, 1047-1053.
Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2005) A two-stage procedure for selection and assessment of agreement of the best instrument with a gold standard, Sequential Analysis, 24, 237-257.
Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2005) Assessment of agreement using intersection-union principle , Biometrical J. , 47, 674-681.
Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2005) Selecting the instrument closest to a gold standard, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 129, 229-237.
Nagaraja, H. N., Choudhary, P. K. and Matalas, N. (2003) Number of records in a bivariate sample with application to Missouri river flood data, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 4, 377-391.
Misra, N., Choudhary, P.K., Dhariyal, I. and Kundu, D. (2002) Smooth estimators for estimating order restricted scale parameters of two gamma distributions, Metrika, 56, 143-161.
Choudhary, P. K., Kundu, D. and Misra, N. (2001) Likelihood ratio test for simultaneous testing of mean and variance in normal distribution, J. of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 71, 313-333.
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Sengupta, D., Choudhary, P. K. and Cassey, P. (2015) Modeling and Analysis of Method Comparison Data with Skewness and Heavy Tails. In Ordered Data Analysis, Modeling and Health Research Methods, Choudhary, P. K., Nagaraja, C. H. and Ng, H. K. T. (Editors), Springer, New York, 169-187.
Choudhary, P. K. (2009) Interrater agreement. In Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health Sciences, Balakrishnan, N. et al. (Editors), John Wiley, 461-480. This article also appears as an entry in the online version of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, second edition.
Choudhary, P. K. and Nagaraja, H. N. (2004) Measuring agreement in method comparison studies - A review. In Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability, Balakrishnan, N., Kannan, N. and Nagaraja, H. N. (Editors), Birkhauser, Boston, 215-244.
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Notes: The authors of this study investigated the function of the daf-15 gene in C. elegans. The daf-15 gene encodes the C. elegans ortholog of raptor, a protein involved in the TOR signaling pathway. In C. elegans, daf-15 transcription is regulated by DAF-16, a FOXO transcription factor which is itself regulated by the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway. This work links regulation of the TOR pathway, which controls cell growth, to the insulin/IGF-1 pathway, known to affect lifespan, development and metabolism. Three candidate daf-15 genes were amplified by PCR and cloned into the pGEM®-T Vector. The Riboprobe® SP6/T7 transcription system was used to transcribe RNA from the candidate clones. Semiquantitative RT-PCR was performed to compare daf-15 mRNA levels in daf-2 and daf-16; daf-2 mutant animals. The mRNA was purified from total worm RNA using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. (3633)
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Zainaa, G., Morassuttia, C., De Amicisa, F., Fogherb, C., and Marchettia, S.
Notes: Total RNA was isolated from immature barley anthers with the RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System. Total RNA concentration was determined by spectrophotometric analysis. Next, the authors used the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System to isolate poly (A)+ RNA from the total RNA samples. The purified poly (A)+ RNA was used as a template in RT-PCR using the Access RT-PCR System to analyze expression of BEN1 and Bnuc1. (2847)
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You, L. and Kruse, F.E.
Notes: Total RNA was isolated from human corneal tissue with the RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System. The total RNA was further processed into the poly(A)+ fraction through the use of the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated mRNA was used for RT-PCR and Northern analysis. RT-PCR was performed using M-MLV Reverse Transcriptase. (2569)
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Yoshida, T., Fujimori, T. and Nabeshima, Y.-I.
Notes: Total RNA was isolated from wildtype and transgenic mouse kidneys and small intestines using the RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System. Poly(A)+ RNA was isolated from the total RNA using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. Both poly(A)+ and total RNA was used in Nothern blotting. (2578)
Bouquin, T., Meier, C., Foster, R., Nielsen, M.E., and Mundy, J.
Notes: Total RNA was isolated from Arabidopsis tissues using the RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System. The RNA was further processed into the poly(A) fraction using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated RNA was used in Northern blot analysis. Blots were probed with a 32P-labeled RNA probe generated from a cDNA cloned into the pGEM®-T Easy Vector using the T7 Riboprobe® in vitro Transcription System. Bioluminescence from transgenic plants containing a firefly luciferase reporter was visualized by spraying the plants with a solution of 5mM Beetle Luciferin, Potassium Salt in 0.1% Triton® X-100. (2570)
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Morgan, R.W., Sofer, L., Anderson, A.S., Bernberg, E.L., Cui, J., and Burnside, J.
Notes: PolyA+ RNA was isolated from total RNA from infected or mock-infected chicken embryo fibroblasts using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated mRNA was used to produce 32P-labeled probes for microarray analysis. The isolated polyA+ RNA was also used to confirm differential expression by Northern blotting. (3205)
Ishida, S., Huang, E., Zuzan, H., Spang, R., Leone, G., West, M., and Nevins, J.R.
Notes: PolyA+ RNA was isolated from mouse 2r15 embryo fibroblast cell line total RNA using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated mRNA was used for Northern analysis and as input mRNA for analysis with an Affymetrix mouse expression gene array. (3204)
Travers K.J., Patil C.K., Wodicka L., Lockhart D.J., Weissman J.S. and Walter P.
Notes: Poly A+ RNA was isolated from the total RNA of three different strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, wild-type (JC103), CS165 and JC408, using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated polyA+ RNA was used to make biotinylated cRNAs via a referenced method using AMV Reverse Transcriptase. The resulting probes were used in microarray analysis. (2696)
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Bergmann, M., Barnes, P.J. and Newton, R.
Notes: The interleukin (IL)-1ß stimulated release of granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) from lung epithelial cells was explored in this study. To test the promoter activity of GM-CSF, the promoter and enhancer regions were amplified by PCR from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and cloned into the pGEM®-T vector. After verification by sequencing, the promoter and enhancer were cloned individually and together into the pGL3-Basic Vector. Additionally, an Xho I/Sal I fragment containing the HSV tk promoter, a gene conferring neomycin resistance, and a poly-A tail were cloned into the Sal I site of pGL3 to allow the production of stable transfectants. To perform stable transfections, 20µl of the Tfx™-50 transfection reagent was incubated with 8µg of plasmid in serum-free medium for 15 minutes at room temperature. Preconfluent human A549 type II alveolar carcinoma cells were incubated with the transfection mix for 2 hours after washing with serum-free medium. The cells were then cultured in fresh medium for 16 hours before the addition of 0.5mg/mL G-418. After 21 days, foci of cells developed and were harvested for use in luciferase assays. The cells were plated into 24-well plates, grown to confluency and incubated in serum-free medium. Stimulation by 1ng/ml IL-1ß or 1µM PMA for 12 hours was followed by lysate production and measurement of luciferase activity using the Luciferase Assay System and a Turner luminometer. Luciferase readings were standardized against total protein measurements. The PolyATract® System IV was also used prior to a Northern Blot to obtain purified mRNA. (2742)
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O'Donnell1, A. , Tiong, S., Nash, D. , Clark, D.
Notes: Polyadenylated RNA [poly(A)-RNA] was purified from 0.5 mg total RNA using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. For primer extension, a primer was radiolabeled by 5' phosphorylation with [γ-32P]ATP using the Primer Extension System. The primer extension reaction was performed using 10 µg of total RNA from adult Canton-S flies and 100 fmol of a 32P-labeled primer. Size markers were a 32P-labeled Promega phiX174/Hinf I Marker standard. (0588)
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Halsalla, J., Milnera, M., Casseltona, L.
Notes: Poly(A)+ RNA was purified from total RNA by the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. PCR products were purified by agarose gel electrophoresis and were cloned into pGEM®-T and pGEM®-T Easy Vector. Genes were obtained by RT-PCR using the Access RT-PCR System. (1097)
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Sarkissian, C.N., Shao, Z., Blain, F., Peevers, R., Su, H., Heft, R., Chang, T.M.S., Scriver, C.R.
Notes: Poly A(+) RNA was isolated from Rhodospridium toruloides total RNA with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated mRNA was converted to double-stranded cDNA with the Universal Riboclone® cDNA Synthesis System. (0440)
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Sakai, H., Lingueglia, E., Champigny, G., Mattei, M.-G. and Lazdunski, M.
Notes: Taq DNA Polymerase was used extensively to clone the BLINaC cDNA. The resulting clone was put into the pCI Mammalian Expression Vector. Total RNA was isolated from rat liver and primary hepatocytes with the SV Total RNA Isolation System. The RNA was used for RT-PCR. Northern blotting was performed with poly-A(+) RNA isolated with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. (0472)
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Iwata, M., Vieira, J., Byrne, M., Horton, H. and Torok-Storb, B.
Notes: The RNAgents® Total RNA Isolation System was used to isolate total RNA from immortalized human marrow stromal cell lines, HS-5 and HS-27a, that were incubated with 2 ng/mL IL-1β or 5% conditioned media from HS-5 cell cultures. Poly (A)+ RNA was then isolated from total RNA with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The Poly (A)+ RNA was used in RT-PCR to create amplimers containing T7 promoters. The PCR products were used as templates in in vitro transcription reactions to generate biotin-labeled probes for microarrays. (2760)
Awane, M., Andres, P.G., Li, D.J., Reinecker, H-C.
Notes: IEC-6 cells were seeded into 96-well plates and cultured in the presence of various concentrations of human IL-17. Cell proliferation was measured using the CellTiter 96® AQueous Non-Radioactive Cell Proliferation Assay. The pGL3 vector was used to clone a PCR-amplified piece of the 5' flanking region of the CINC gene, and the Luciferase Assay System was used to assess promoter activation. All transfections of IEC-6 cells used the pSV-β-galactosidase vector as a control for transfection efficiency. Total RNA for Northern blotting was isolated using the Poly ATtract System. (2510)
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Masloff, S., Poggeler, S., Kuck, U.
Notes: Poly(A)+ RNA was isolated from total RNA with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System and used for Northern blotting. (0738)
Kozlova, T., Pokholkova, G.V., Tzertzinis, G., Sutherland, J.D., Zhimulev, I.F., Kafatos, F.C.
Notes: Poly(A)+ RNA of Drosophila was purified by the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. (0886)
Apergis, G.A., Crawford, N., Ghosh, D., Steppan, C.M., Vorachek, W.R., Wen, P. and Locker, J.
Notes: This paper describes use of the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System, pCI Mammalian Expression Vector, and TNT® Coupled Wheat Germ Extract System for RNA isolation, gene expression and gel-shifts assays (EMSA) respectively. (1477)
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Keller, T., Damude, H.G., Werner, D., Doerner, P., Dixon, R.A. and Lamb, C.
Notes: Poly A+ RNA was isolated from Arabidopsis total RNA using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. The isolated RNA was used for Northern analysis and both 3' and 5' RACE. The products of the RACE reactions were subcloned into the pGEM®-T Vector. (1189)
Smith, L. A., Peixoto, A. A., Kramer, E. M., Villella, A., Hall, J.C.
Notes: Total RNA was reverse-transcribed with random hexamer primers and AMV Reverse Transcriptase and then amplified for sequence analysis by nested PCR. Poly(A)+ RNA was purified with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System. (0382)
Liu, Q.Y., Pandey, S., Singh, R.K., Lin, W., Ribecco, M., Borowy Borowski, H., Smith, B., LeBlanc, J., Walker, P.R., Sikorska, M.
Notes: The authors used the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System IV to isolate mRNA from total RNA and the Wizard® PCR Preps DNA Purification Resin to purify a first-strand cDNA synthesis product. TNT® T7 Coupled in vitro Transcription/Translation Reticulocyte Lysate System was used to synthesize radiolabeled DNaseY. And to test for signal peptide function they added Canine Pancreatic Microsomal Membranes (CMMs). (0779)
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Boivin, A. and Dura, J.M.
Notes: The authors isolated mRNA from Drosophila using the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System IV. (1424)
Liu, Y., Wang, L., Kermicle, J.L., Wessler, S.R.
Notes: Poly(A)+ RNA was purified with PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation Systems. Anti-Rabbit IgG AP Conjugate, and BCIP/NBT were used in Western blotting. R transcripts were synthesized from the Lc cDNA in the pGEM-7Z(+) Vector, and were used in in vitro translation by Rabbit Reticulocyte Lysate Systems to be used as a positive control in Western. (0781)
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Rennebeck, G., Lader, E., Fujimoto, A., Lei, E.P., Artzt, K.
Notes: Streptavidin MagneSphere® Paramagnetic Particles (SA-PMPs) were used to capture biotinylated primer probe in a random access retrieval of genetic information by PCR (rargip) screening [ABE, K., (1992) Rapid isolation of desired sequences from lone linker PCR amplified cDNA mixtures: application to identification and recovery of expressed sequences in cloned genomic DNA. Mamm. Genome 2:252-259]. The pGEM®-T Vector System and PolyATract® mRNA Isolation System were also used. (0513)
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Muller, Y.L., Reitstetter, R., Yool, A.J.
Notes: Poly-A+ RNA was isolated from rat cerebellar total RNA with the PolyATtract® mRNA Isolation System and used for semi-quantitative RT-PCR. The targets of the RT-PCR were cloned with the pGEM®-T Vector System and sequenced to show they quantitated the correct targets. (0671)


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After you've been matchmade in League of Legends, you move to a screen where you can watch each player's loading bar creep up as you enter the game. It seems like this would be a boredom factory, but it's actually alright: this is the first time you're able to see your opponents in a normal game, so it's typically a flurry of "oh no's" and "not him's" and so forth. You use this time to crank up a kill order on the opposite team, talk about item builds, and so forth. This is something that can keep you occupied for, oh, maybe a minute or so.
Occasionally, you are given much, much longer.
The wide range of hardware the game is available on means that people are attempting to play it on microwaves or on dad's old shitbox they found in the attic or some other scantily apportioned semi-functional mousetrap, mousetraps not being known for their reliable wireless-fi, which means that for the better part of the match they will exist in the non-place between loading and execution. You'll still get plenty of execution, though - of your own body, because shitbox.
I have no idea if Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is any good. It's impossible for me to tell. All I know, all I really know, is that I must buy and buy immediately. In The Grim Darkness Of The Future, there is only brand loyalty.
I wish that weren't enough; I wish that I were stronger on every axis. That I could be strong for you, be useful! But no. All I want to do is grind right through an orc with a sword that is also a chainsaw. Relic couldn't be better suited to it: they've been making this game for years and years, just from a different perspective, with the camera situated way up in the sky looking down on everybody. The meticulous, almost living animations that have defined the series drop with all their heft and confidence. The sawing is as good as one might hope, if not better, but…
The environments in the demo feel lifted from an RTS sometimes, though - don't they? Don't they lack the lived-in cranny, don't they have scale without granularity? Aren't there a no i've got to fight it i've got to fight it
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Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
For the last few years I've been using an app called Time Out to make sure I take regular breaks. It runs in the background and throws a "micro break" about every ten minutes—just look away from the screen for ten seconds and rest your eyes—and a "regular break" about every hour or two, reminding you to get up and walk around for a few minutes. To be honest, the app gets a little annoying (especially when you're pair-programming, collaborating with others, or recording screencasts), but its worth it. Whenever I stop using the app, eyestrain comes back after a day or two.
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I haven't had a dream that specifically involved two intersecting pastor spits in the form of heart (what other form would be more appropriate), but I would be lying if I said I had never dreamed of caressing this lovely chunk of meat and--well, let's just stop there, there's no need to get any more specific. Let's just assume that this reader blurred his friend's face in the photo in the same way a face may be blurred to preserve anonymity in some high-profile adultery scandal.
Currently I am trying to figure out exactly where this sculpture might be. My best guess is on the Paseo de Reforma outside of one of Mexico City's world-famous museums. And while I like the idea of art for the people, I imagine this glorious work of art--maybe the best piece of art ever made in the history of the world--has had it's fair share of drool and drunken fondling such that it should really be moved indoors so it may be cherished for generations to come. If not the Tamayo in Mexico, at least the MOMA or the Louvre. I want my children's children to lay eyes on this masterwork (though if they could cop a feel that would be good too).
But first I would like to lay my eyes on it. Do you know where this is? Please let me know. I'm due for a pilgrimage.
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Administration of Coloured Advisory Board afier ammonites Angola Annals archosaurs articulates Baster Bishop Esser Bishop Simon Bishop Thiinemann BMNH body chamber Bushmanland Campanian Cape Town Catholic caudal vertebrae Church coiling Collignon Coloured Affairs concemed Coniacian Council Cretaceous ammonites cylindraceum Damaras Damesites Didvmoceras Diplomoceras distal dorsal Erythrosuchus Erythrosuchus africanus Eubostrychoceras European fauna fieldwork fig Figure figured final first flanks genus Geological Govemment Hauericeras Herero holotype Howarth Huene Hyatt influence inhabitants intemal moulds Klinger & Kennedy KwaZulu land Lateral view locality lower Campanian Maastrichtian Madagascar material Matsumoto maxilla medial Members Mission Farm missionaries Namaqualand Neocrioceras Neoglyptoxoceras northem Nostoceras occupiers official ofthe Omament Orange River Pella phragmocone political posterior proterosuchids Pseudoxybeloceras Regional Office Reserves Rural Coloured Areas Santonian shell South African Museum Spath specimens St Lucia Formation Stoliczka surface suture text-fig tubercles Turonian Type species umbilical Upper Cretaceous upper Santonian venter ventrolateral vertebrae whorl section