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The joke Alan and I came up with when arriving at Kennsington Golf Club is that we must have passed through some sort of warp door. We made a right turn off a crowded street, right between a Wendy's and a Panera, then passed some dentist's offices, and bam! We were suddenly in the middle of nowhere with a golf course stretching out for miles ahead of us. The attractive cart girl (is there another kind?) drove out to grab our clubs and we were off.
Kennsington opened in June, 2006 and has the potential to be one of the top courses in the surprisingly crowded Youngstown, Ohio area. The course is lined by construction (though the interior remain free of McMansions or any other houses) as large houses are being built at a good rate, and the entire area seems to be growing rapidly.
Read on to see what we thought of the golf course at Kennsington Golf Club.
Course Conditions
I've played my fair share of new golf courses. Among them, Grey Hawk had good conditions (but excessively hard greens with soft approaches) and one of my home courses, Whispering Woods, which started off in fair shape and has improved dramatically in a little over a year since it opened in late May, 2007.
Kennsington opened in June, 2006. I've heard that the course has had some financial issues, so perhaps that explains the course conditions. It seems that all of the money was spent buying equipment used to build the golf course and none was saved for equipment necessary to maintain the golf course. Specifically, an aerator. I was told at the end of my first visit that Kennsington has yet to aerate the course, but was planning to do so for the first time "this fall."
Certain areas of the course are in desperate need of this aeration. The soil is quite clay-heavy here as it is near me in Erie, and a heavy regimen of aeration and top-dressing with sand is in order. Due to the clay, drainage is an issue, and Kennsington seems to hold water like you wouldn't believe. I played the course twice, both just after a moist but not even "rainy" evening (less than 1/10th of an inch of precipitation), and the course was soggy and had all over. Grass clippings clung to shoes and pant legs and clogged spikes.
That's not to say the course conditions are all bad. Though the greens lack the root structure you might expect to see after two years, they putted well and it appears most players take care to repair ball marks. The fairways had some bare spots, but where there was grass it was in good health and supported the ball well. The rough is thick and healthy, both greenside and bordering tees and fairways. Tees are in good health and offer nice, flat surfaces from which to start each hole. Some of the drainage retention ponds are a bit of an eyesore with dirt banks that need to be grassed over (or, perhaps even better, hidden from view with some flowering bushes).
Layout and Design
I've come to the conclusion that Kennsington is a bit of a "second-shot golf course." I say this not because the course offers spectacular second-shot options, but because most of the drives are so bland. Oftentimes the landing areas are invisible, and when they're not, they're typically poorly defined. On virtually every two-or three-shot hole you'll find yourself driving up or over a hill to an invisible landing area or to a fairway that lacks the definition a fairway bunker or some contoured mowing patterns provide.
Landing areas are fairly generous off the tees, and the course rewards good positioning off the tee, which makes the lack of visibility or definition all the more frustrating. I found it much easier to know where to best position my golf ball off the tee the second time around the course, but fear many people won't be back after their first time to put their knowledge of the course to the test.
In direct opposition to the bland drives, the second shots offer many of the elements of good golf course design. They are shaped and guarded differently, calling for and allowing a variety of shots to be played into them: high draws, low cuts, bump-and-runs, etc. Many feature small run-off areas or chipping areas, and the greens aren't overly guarded by bunkers, featuring a good mix of fairway-cut grass, rough, and sand. A few greens have tiers and ramps, but these features are not overdone. Green size is often perfect for the approach shot's typical length – smaller for short shots and larger for longer approaches.
Kennsington's five par threes vary in length from 139 to 232 yards (with stops at 177, 186, and 207 yards in between), providing plenty of variety in club selection. The most beautiful and perhaps dangerous of these is the 186-yard seventh hole, which plays dramatically downhill to a two-tiered green with a steep hillside left and a watery ravine to the right.
The par fours vary in length as well: the ninth and eighteenth play to about 460 yards apiece, while some, like the second, play 382 downhill and others, like the 326-yard uphill 14th, are almost drivable from shorter tees. The second is a nifty hole, challenging players to hit more than a safe hybrid to get farther down a fairly wide fairway split deviously in half by a large tree.
Kennsington's par fives trouble me a bit, and not just for the lack of exciting driving options. The 527-yard third hole presents a choice that's repeated on several later par-five holes: go for it or lay up. It's a common choice on par fives, but one that's handled poorly twice at Kennsington. On that third hole, for example, the "layup" is often about 125 yards, leaving about 125 to the pin, or the carry is 240 yards. Par fives played with a driver and two wedges aren't exciting at all, and most players don't consistently carry the ball 240 yards.
The 572-yard fifth hole requires as little as a hybrid from the tees, as my 3-wood rolled well beyond the end of the fairway and into a bit of a ditch before sweeping back uphill. Again, the second shot is interesting, but I feel taking the driver out of someone's hands on a par five is a contrivance I could do without.
On the back nine, the 615-yard 10th is the most "normal" of the par fives. It plays slightly downhill and doesn't present an illogical "all carry or wedge to lay up" choice. Unfortunately, that question is again asked at the 521-yard 16th, though it's not quite as severe as the third hole and the hole plays downhill.
Kennsington's fairway bunkers are playable, though some offer slightly penal lips if you get towards the front side of them on longer par fours, and some were downright deadly. They're nothing to write home about – typical amoeba-like U.S.-style bunkers – but I will say that they seem to be placed at appropriate distances from the tees. On some holes, you're given a choice between hitting 3-wood from the tee to stay short of the bunkers or squeezing a driver between them.
All told, and aside from the bland driving and a few silly "lay up with a wedge" par fives, Kennsington offers a solid test of golf. Positioning is rewarded in good balance with distance and power. The green contours are subtle enough and the greens fast enough to reward good putting and shot placement. Having played the course only twice, I can't be certain you'll "play every club in your bag," but I believe you may be pressed into doing so at Kennsington.
Just make sure you play it a second time, as the shot placement from the tee will be so much more evident and your round that much more enjoyable.
Bang for the Buck
Kennsington offers a number of specials. As I write this review, it's $25 to play on weekdays and $35 on weekends – a steal if I ever saw one. Even their normal summertime rates are quite low, and coupons abound, particularly if you sign up for their mailing list. The golf carts even offer a GPS system, adding to the bang for the buck.
My only bit of advice? Don't visit the golf course after a bout of wet weather. I've never enjoyed paying money to slog around a soggy golf course, and Kennsington seems to hold its water a bit too well.
Kennsington Golf Club needs two things to improve its status dramatically. First, it needs an aerification and maintenance program that improves and maintains the golf course conditions. Right now, it's too soggy and there are too many spots where grass should be but isn't. This is easily done, and I expect Kennsington this to happen sooner or later.
The second is far less likely to happen – and to be honest, a far smaller complaint. I'd move a few tees on some par fives to restore the proper balance between the risk and reward of "go for it or lay up" and I'd either shave down a few fairways or add a little texture with some fairway bunkers, as something should be done to make the course a bit more playable off the tee.
Almost nobody will notice the second item. A few more will notice the first, but at $25 to $40, they won't care. Kennsington offers a good test of golf – particularly once you get off the tee – and makes use of the area's elevation changes, water hazards, general routing to ask you to hit (I believe) "every club in the bag." Shotmaking is rewarded at Kennsington, as is creativity, and it's a "fun" course for both skilled golfers and average players alike.
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out Par 4 4 5 4 5 3 4 3 4 36 Gold 442 382 527 413 572 139 492 186 461 3614 Black 416 375 517 405 527 136 452 173 424 3425 Blue 403 354 495 381 507 128 441 153 408 3270 Hdcp 12 16 4 10 6 8 18 14 2
Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Par 5 3 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 35 Gold 615 177 448 232 326 453 521 206 458 3436 Black 553 167 424 213 317 438 516 188 428 3244 Blue 527 148 388 181 302 429 504 159 402 3040 Hdcp 5 13 9 11 15 7 3 17 1
Tees Rating Slope Yards ---- ------ ----- ----- Gold 73.1 136 7,050 Black 72.3 131 6,669 Blue 71.5 127 6,310 White 70.8 123 5,847 Green 69.7 119 4,950


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Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo's leadership of the city's police department drew criticism and praise from residents at an open forum Tuesday. DeLeo said he likes to hold forums to build relationships with community members.
Tallahassee resident Peter Prinz is upset that the driver who hit his wife in a car accident didn't get a ticket. He said he approached Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo months ago about the accident.
"I waited a half an hour for you before you ever showed up," Prinz said. "And you never invited me in. I had a folder with pictures and everything. You never even looked at it."
While several people at the forum had traffic-related concerns, DeLeo says the city consistently has trouble with people stealing property from cars, including guns.
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DeLeo was also questioned about surveillance tactics of protestors and gang violence. Tallahassee resident Sam Pate questioned the potential use of body cameras, saying he's afraid that will lead to more arrests. But DeLeo said he favors them and is waiting to hear on a grant from the federal government.
"But body cameras are not going to generate more arrests," he said. "They're not going to make people commit crimes. So, the fact is right now officers have discretion to make an arrest for a minor violation or not make an arrest, right?"
DeLeo said the police department is adding more officers. He also wants a new modern building for the police department with more space.

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Apsley Bury moated site and fishpond, south of Apsley End
- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1010927
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1992
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The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shillington
- National Grid Reference:
Reasons for Designation
Around 6,000 moated sites are known in England. They consist of wide ditches,
often or seasonally water-filled, partly or completely enclosing one or more
islands of dry ground on which stood domestic or religious buildings. In some
cases the islands were used for horticulture. The majority of moated sites
served as prestigious aristocratic and seigneurial residences with the
provision of a moat intended as a status symbol rather than a practical
military defence. The peak period during which moated sites were built was
between about 1250 and 1350 and by far the greatest concentration lies in
central and eastern parts of England. However, moated sites were built
throughout the medieval period, are widely scattered throughout England and
exhibit a high level of diversity in their forms and sizes. They form a
significant class of medieval monument and are important for the understanding
of the distribution of wealth and status in the countryside. Many examples
provide conditions favourable to the survival of organic remains.
The moat at Apsley Bury Farm is a well preserved example of a type of smaller rectangular moat retaining a high archaeological potential with building remains on the interior of the moat and silt deposits in the moat ditch and fishpond from which environmental evidence may be recovered. The monument also lies in an area where smaller moated sites are particularly numerous and therefore chronological and social variations between sites may be explored.
Apsley Bury is a small rectangular moat with a large fishpond adjoining it to
the east. The moat ditch is about 10m wide and varies in depth between 1.5m
on the eastern arm to 4m on the western arm. The southern arm holds some
An outer bank, some 4m wide by nearly 0.5m high, runs parallel to the northern
arm. Enclosed by the moat is an island roughly 60m square on which the below
ground remains of buildings are attested by fragments of tile and stone found
at the west side. Although the north-east corner of the moat is partially
infilled and landscaped, the eastern edge of the moat is preserved as a scarp
in front of the existing farm house. The scarp also marks the west side of a
depression about 1.5m deep and roughly 40m square, which is considered to be a
large fishpond originally fed by water draining from the moat. The northern
edge of the pond is marked by a steep scarp in the adjacent paddock but the
southern and eastern limits lie beneath agricultural buildings. The pond is
now drained but the bottom of the depression is boggy.
Documentary evidence shows that the moat existed before 1777.
The farmhouse and two brick and timber outbuildings within the moat, the
agricultural buildings on the pond, the fence of the paddock to the north, and
the metalled surface of the driveway are excluded from the scheduling but the
ground beneath them is included.
MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 20426
- Legacy System:
Books and journals
Howlitson, M, Moated Sites Survey, (1980)
Dyer, J F, 'Bedfordshire Magazine' in Beds. Mag. 1961-3, , Vol. 8, (1961)
Beds CRO L 33/13/4, (1777)
Mrs Cole,
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
End of official listing


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You need an easy way to start programs that you write. One way is to add a button to your spreadsheet.
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Sheet1. Go to the
Developer tab. Click
Insert, and choose
Command button from the
ActiveX controls:
(Use the ActiveX button, not the Form button.)
Click somewhere in the worksheet to place the button.
Notice that the
Design mode button is active. When you're in design mode and you click on the button, you select it, so you can change what the button does. When design mode is off and you click on the button, you're telling the button to run any code that's tied to it.
With the command button selected, click the
Properties link on the
Developer tab. The properties window will open:
Properties are attributes of the button that affect how it looks and acts. Change the
Caption property to
Click me. Change the name to
OK, we've got the button looking right. Now go back to VBE (ALT+F11). Select
cmdClickMe and
Click in the code window:
cmdClickMe_Click() is a subroutine. It's a block of code that Excel will run whenever someone clicks the button.
Put some code in the subroutine. Try this:
MsgBox("OK, I admit it, I'm a cow.")
It should look like:
Notice that the line is indented. Press the Tab key to indent.
Go back to the worksheet. Turn off design mode, with the
Design Mode button in ribbon.
Click the command button you made. You should see a message about having cow nature.
Now pick a cell in your worksheet that's near the button. For me, cell G3 is to the right of the button.
If you put your button on G3, choose another cell.
Cell G3 is in row 3, column 7. Change the code in the click sub:
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So you have:
Adjust the 3 and 7 to refer to whatever cell you want.
Click the button now, and see what happens on the worksheet.
Let's change the background color of the cell. Add this line to your sub:
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Try it.
So, that's how you can have a button run some code.
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|Reference : Efficient evaluation of the geometrical validity of curvilinear finite elements
|Scientific congresses and symposiums : Unpublished conference/Abstract
|Engineering, computing & technology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
|Efficient evaluation of the geometrical validity of curvilinear finite elements
|Johnen, Amaury [Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Applied and Computational Electromagnetics (ACE) >]
|Remacle, Jean-François [Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC) > Applied mechanics and mathematics (MEMA) > >]
|Geuzaine, Christophe [Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Applied and Computational Electromagnetics (ACE) >]
|Fifth International Conference on Advanced COmputational Methods in ENgineering (ACOMEN 2011)
|du 14 novembre 2011 au 17 novembre 2011
|Université de Liège
|[en] The development of high-order numerical techniques on unstructured grids has been underway for many years. The accuracy of these methods strongly depends of the accuracy of the geometrical discretization, and thus depends on the availability of quality curvilinear meshes.
The usual way of building such curvilinear meshes is to first generate a straight sided mesh. Then, mesh entities that are classified on the curved boundaries of the domain are curved accordingly. Some internal mesh entities may be curved as well. If we assume that the straight sided mesh is composed of well shaped elements, curving elements introduces a kind of "shape distortion" that should be controlled so that the final curvilinear mesh is also composed of well shaped elements.
In this work we propose a method to analyze curvilinear meshes in terms of their elementary jacobians. The method does not deal with the actual generation of the high order mesh. Instead, it provides an efficient way to guarantee that a curvilinear element is geometrically valid, i.e., that its jacobian is strictly positive in all its reference domain. It also provides a way to measure the distortion of the curvilinear element. The key feature of the method is to adaptively expand the elementary jacobians in a polynomial basis, built using Bézier functions, that has both properties of boundedness and positivity.
The algorithm has been implemented in the open-source mesh generator Gmsh, and allows to control the geometrical validity of curvilinear meshes made of triangles, quadrangles, tetrahedra, hexahedra and prisms of any order.
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Decades of China's one-child policy have led to a significant gender imbalance in China. Consequently, single men often have a difficult time finding a wife. One recent outgrowth of this trend is community "people markets" where a man can seek out a wife. One such market operates in Qingyang, a coal mining town in Gansu Province.
According to the Chinese Mainland Media Report, the matchmaking business is booming in Qingyang. Whenever there is a gathering in the market, the matchmakers have the woman's personal data at the ready for a qualified single man. Locals classified women who want to marry as "sellers," and the men who must pay a dowry to the women's families as "buyers." The matchmaker is a go-between who collects a service fee for the transaction.
To earn an acceptable dowry, young men often have to leave the village to find work elsewhere. Lu Feifei started dating five years ago and has dated more than 10 women, but none were suitable. This year, he left the village to work and saved some $3,000. However, the average dowry has gone up to $25,000. He will have to continue to work away from his village to earn enough to pay for a wife.
Even if the date is not successful, the man still has to spend money. When dating, a man has to give the woman around $30 as "embarrassment money," in addition to renting a car and buying gifts.
Matchmaker Li Haijun said that in recent years, the marriage market has very much become a seller's market, with some girls seeing more than 30 men in a single day. One man has been trying to find a wife for 7 years without success in a market where women can pick and choose. Relaying his experiences, Yang Ruiqing said:
"I have few requirements regarding a woman that I am going to marry, even a divorcee with children will do."
The gender imbalance in China is the result of the Chinese government forcibly enforcing family planning policies. After more than 50 years of its one-child policy, the gender imbalance in China is one of the largest in the world. According to official statistics, China's population stood at 1.36 billion at the end of last year, of which 700 million were men and 667 million were women, leaving an imbalance of some 33 million more men than women. China's one-child policy has left many young men in the cold when it comes to relationships.
The heavy imbalance between the male and female populations has also triggered a series of social problems. It is widely reported that the gender imbalance has resulted in extramarital affairs, children born out of wedlock, homosexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual criminal offenses, and other social phenomena endangering public health.
Translated by Chua, B.C. and edited by Aizhu Lu
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I've just added another page to the Developmental Shorts menu, this time Beyond Reasonable Doubt, the winner of the 2014 Orwell Society Dystopian Short Story competition. The prize is a good one for students and is judged by some key figures in the academic world. The guide for the competition went somewhere along the lines of 'write something that Orwell would have approved of'.
There are deliberate nods to 1984 throughout, including one I thought was really obvious but which no-one has spotted or yet commented upon.
The story arose from my own fear of terrible misrepresentation of statistics. Many of us fall into one or two categories that put us at more risk of particular crimes or activities, but risk does not equate to reality. There is, of course, a risk that a micro-meteorite lands on my head an dkills me: it does not mean it will happen. With humans, the presence of an even larger risk or stistical likelihood cannot cope with the reality of someone facing up to being a thinking, feeling, compassionate human being as a result of what they might have been through.
The page here is Beyond Reasonable Doubt, but it is also available as .mobi/kindle format from the Developmental Shorts page.


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I Helped Him Get Back With His Girlfriend Only To Have Him Cut Me Out Of His Life
I Helped Him Get Back With His Girlfriend Only To Have Him Cut Me Out Of His Life
I made a mistake of making a friend in the corporate world. But before telling you this story, let me tell you a little bit about me. I'm an extrovert, a 'happy go lucky' girl who despite coming from a lower middle class, has actually managed to live life comfortably. We did have financial issues, but my parents wanted to give my brother and me everything. I've always excelled in everything I've done in my life, from my studies to extra-curricular activities.
I've always occupied myself with something that I love doing. I was never interested in relationships or men. I thought that there's nothing called 'Love' out there and people are simply wasting their time in thinking this was something that existed and that they should find for themselves.
I was in my final year of B.Tech and was preparing for the CAT but I couldn't finally give it since I decided to attend the placement drive as my dad was on the verge of losing his job as the company was closing. I knew that I had to support my family financially. And so I joined a company that I liked. After training, we were divided into areas within the firm to continue our work and that's when I met, Him. He was our team leader and we had a seven-year age gap between us. Initially, I wasn't too interested in befriending him, but slowly, he began sharing his personal life with me and that made me realize that he trusted me and this helped me begin trusting him too.
I was a good listener. So, it didn't take him long to open up and tell me about his girlfriend of more than eight years. He would take my advice when he needed it and I would help him whole-heartedly. Meanwhile, we would have our share of fights because of another girl that had a massive crush on him. He stopped talking to me, but since I was emotionally attached to him, I went ahead and apologized to him, for a mistake that I never committed.
All I had done, was told this girl who had a crush on him that he had a girlfriend and that keeping expectations would only hurt her. Little did I know I would pay the price for this honesty. All this while, his crush and him began getting closer and he stopped talking to me.
When I saw them once, too close to be sitting together as friends, I rushed in, fulled with anger and asked him to talk to me, immediately. He insulted me in front of everyone and walked away. I tried to apologize to him for this again, but it didn't work. This time, he stopped talking to me entirely.
A few months later, I got the news that his marriage was fixed, with his girlfriend, but she had called the wedding off. Immediately, I called him and asked him if he wanted to talk. I had to keep my self-respect aside because I knew that my best friend needed me. One day, I managed to get her number and called her. I spoke to her for five months after this and managed to wipe out all misunderstandings that had grown between them. Finally, they decided to get married again. Everyone was thrilled and I thought I had found a way to win my best friend back.
But just before things could get back to normal, he called me one day and wanted my help again. Unfortunately, I was emotionally and mentally disturbed because of my own personal issues at home. When I said I was busy and that I couldn't talk, he yelled at me and told me that he doesn't want to see my face again. Is this what friendship is all about?
Honestly speaking, I don't care about him anymore. If you read this, please understand that those friends you make, because of money and status, those aren't relationships that will last. And yes, you were never my friend. Because you aren't someone I could have ever trusted. Or should have, I would say.


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5. Sharing of Threat Intelligence
Open Platform, Standards-Based Approach to Sharing Threat Intel
The evolution of the cyber attacker's techniques, skills and tools has far exceeded the pace of the cyber defender's. Throughout the public and private sector, from federal agencies to health insurance providers, emerging threats continue to wreak havoc on enterprise networks, applications and data. Incident response teams must move faster, but the tools they've been given to do the job aren't fast enough in detecting,... more »
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Penguins Of The World (24" x 36") Poster
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This is the definitive Penguins Of The World Poster. The poster is taken from an wonderful color illustration by artist Jennifer Fairman of Fairman Studios. Each 24" x 36" poster shows each and every penguin species in glorious detail, and next to each penguin is text telling you all about all 17 penguin species and sub-species. There's also a map (lower right) with the locations of every penguin species. A very welcome penguin addition to your home, office or classroom. Not available for express or international shipping.


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Ribera del Duero…
Ribera del Duero…
Ribera del Duero…
Ribero del Duero is unquestionably the most important of Castilla y Leon's five DO zones, and its most famous wine, Vega Sicilia, has proved since the mid 19th century that it is possible to make world class red wines in this area.
Opinion is divided as to whether the best wines are those made entirely from Tempranillo, known locally as Tinto del Pais or Tinto Fino, or those where up to 25 per cent of other varieties have been used. There are several wines which provide eloquent arguments for both sides of the debate. Where blending occurs, Garnacha, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Merlot are the main grapes used, but some producers prefer the white variety Albillo, which brings a touch of perfume to the wines.
As in Rioja the wines are graded according to how long they have been aged. A crianza must be a minimum of two years old on release, having spent at least a year in barrel, a reserve must be three years old, with at least one year in barrel; and a gran reserve must be five years old, with at least two years in barrel.
Ribera del Duero's principal advantages are the altitude (up to 900m) and chalk rich soils over a schistous bedrock, which is perfect for vines. The wines are bold, powerful, full of fruit, and have impressive ageing qualities.
Martin Berdugo Joven 2010, Ribera del Duero, Spain, 14% alc., €13.99
Here's one to seek out – a young Spanish red that delivers more than the simple fruit flavours typical of a wine designed for early drinking. Nicknamed spotty youth; it's earthy, spicy and brilliantly lively on the palate, with a gentle squeeze of tannin.
Excellent value!
Perfect partner to roast lamb, meat dishes, cheese, but this is so supple you could drink it without any food at all.
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Full bodied, rich wines full of damson, cherry, blackberry and raspberry fruit, with a spicy, earthy edge and the occasional hint of citrus peel.
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Pachoras. Cathedral of Aetios.
organized by Warsaw University
Institute of Archaeology and
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
11th International Conference of Nubian Studies
is intended to bring together members of the International Society of Nubian Studies, established in Warsaw in 1972, and specialists and students worldwide, interested in the ancient history and archaeology of Nubia, the territories of the Nile Valley and the deserts south of the first cataract (i.e. southern Egypt and northern Sudan).
The conference will run from
August 27 (Sunday) to September 2 (Saturday), 2006
Following the tradition of previous meetings – in Warsaw in 1972, Chantilly in 1975, Cambridge in 1978, The Hague in 1979, Heidelberg in 1982, Uppsala in 1986, Geneva in 1990, Lille in 1994, Boston in 1998 and Rome in 2002 – the conference will be organized into
plenary sessions
dedicated to a discussion of new perspectives in studies on the history and archaeology of successive phases in Nubian antiquity, namely:
• Prehistoric
• Kerma period and Ancient Kush
• Pharaonic
• Napatan
• Meroitic
• Late Antique and Medieval
and into
parallel sessions
devoted to:
• recent excavations
• documents, texts, inscriptions and graffiti
• society in the Nubian kingdoms
• Nubian civilization – tradition and sources of inspiration
• and special session devoted to
salvage excavations in the Fourth Cataract area
Panel discussions
will be held on the following themes:
• architecture – town and settlement
• iconography – representations of rulers
• religious ceremony inside sacral buildings – temple and church
• languages in the Nubian Kingdoms – official and vernacular
Other topics are welcome as well.
Presentations of recent excavations and studies are invited in
Registration deadline is
October 31, 2005
Włodzimierz Godlewski
Adam Łajtar
© 2005 by Warsaw University. All rights reserved.


text: Kevin Ashton coined the term "Internet of things" which became popular and rallying the internet. These are connected to the Internet via wireless and wired Internet connections. These sensors can use different types of local area connections such as RFID(radio frequency identification), NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee. Sensors can also have wide area band connectivity… Read More »


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We've been hearing since 2008 that the Internet in general and social media in particular was going to play a huge role in political elections. In 2012, that promise finally came to fruition.
We saw campaigns come to life and die wretched deaths over a well coordinated Facebook following or an untimely YouTube video. We saw memes spring up to celebrate our heroes and ridicule our opponents.
And finally, we saw social media used as never before, not just to spread the word about election-night outcomes but also to announce the results of our presidential election.
Here are the top 10 moments from Washington's 2012 in social media.
10. Obama joins Pinterest
Pinterest really came into its own in 2012, and no seal of approval carried more weight than that of the President himself. Barack Obama headed over to Pinterest in March, where his campaign played softball, giving Pinterest's hoards of mostly female users the stuff they wanted most: Pics of the First Family, pet photos, cookie recipes, and food porn.
The story: "Obama's pinning actions, while no doubt essential to spreading more colorful, personality-infused messaging, will likely be a bigger boon for the social networking site than for the campaign. Consider this yet another defining moment for the still-small, 30-person, Palo Alto-based company."
9. Ron Paul's Facebook takeover
According to Facebook stats, Ron Paul was highly favored to clean up in early Republican primaries. Unfortunately for Ron Paul, what happens on Facebook and what happens in the GOP establishment are two different things, as we found out very early in the campaign.
The story: "Both Socialbakers and Sociagility predicted that, based on activity from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, Ron Paul was the favored contender in the Republican race by a significant margin. Even Google's elections hub showed Ron Paul trending higher than other candidates in search and garnering more YouTube views than most of his competitors. … According to social media data guru Niall Cook, 'Mainstream media is more a polished mirror of real life, and social media is still distorted and fragmented, like a fairground hall of mirrors.'"
8. Romney's IT meltdown
On election day, Mitt Romney's campaign was counting on Project Orca, a huge undertaking intended to give on-the-ground volunteers and campaign managers accurate, real-time information about voters. This information would then enable the Romney campaign to respond quickly, mobilizing voters and calling them to action when and where they were most needed. The whole plan fell apart, however, due to a colossal tech failure.
The story: "But numerous Orca volunteers complained that their passwords didn't work, that they didn't know to use the
https:// prefix to access the Orca site, and that the Orca site crashed often throughout the day. This indicates Orca wasn't tested under real-world conditions before election day, a serious flaw in what was supposed to be a state-of-the-art system."
7. Texts from Hillary
This wasn't a big news story, but the VentureBeat staff (and about half the Internet) got a huge kick out of Texts From Hillary, a meme all about our badass Secretary of State. It started with a picture of the nonplussed Clinton, BlackBerry in hand, on a military flight to Tripoli. While the photo was snapped in late 2011, the world really took notice in April 2012, when the Texts From Hillary put words in the former Senator's SMS.
The story: "After a week that included 32 posts, 83,000 shares on Facebook, 8,400 Twitter followers, over 45K Tumblr followers, news stories around the world, Renee Montagne from Morning Edition saying "ROFL," a Maureen Dowd column, and a tweet from ?uest Love, we think it's time to stop while we are ahead. As far as memes go – it has gone as far as it can go. Is it really possible to top a submission from the Secretary herself? No. But then when you get to text with her in real life – it's just over."
6. "Invisible Obama"
Take a roomful of excited Republicans, a silver screen legend, and an empty chair. Put 'em all together, whaddaya get? Invisible Obama!
The story "Yes, Oscar winning actor and director Clint Eastwood tonight had an emotional back-and-forth with an empty chair. The explosive growth of the @InvisibleObama Twitter account further proves that nothing escapes the Internet's love of awkward public failures. Eastwood's speech had all the makings of the perfect meme: It was unexpected, completely organic, and judging from the response on social media tonight, it will likely end up being the most widely remembered speech tonight."
5. Obama does Reddit
If you needed convincing that our Nerd In Chief is, in fact, a nerd (or at least surrounded by nerd-staffers), look no further than this little item. As part of his presidential campaign, Obama headed over to Reddit to field questions and give real answers on the self-proclaimed front page of the Internet.
The story: "Obama started off the AMA [ask me anything] with a note about Hurricane Isaac, which is currently hitting the Gulf and Southeastern regions of the United States. … Thus far Obama has nearly 500 comments, many of which are questions about the Space Program. Many others are demanding a better "confirmation" photo from the POTUS."
4. Romney's YouTube disaster
In liberal publication Mother Jones' finest moment in a decade or more, its journalists found a recording of candidate Mitt Romney making some rather high-handed remarks about working class Americans. The now-infamous "47 percent" video put a stain on a campaign already troubled by class issues.
The story: "To be fair, you can't easily respond to a social media firestorm like this via social media. The Romney campaign's best hope is to wait for the furor to die down and then wait for Obama to make a similarly embarrassing gaffe."
3. Romney's tax hack
When a hacker managed to get hold of Mitt Romney's tax returns — documents more than a few Americans were eager to see — he held them for ransom in a most unconventional way. No, not a bucket of fried chicken.
The story: "In the letter, the hacker threatened the release of the tax returns to 'all major news media outlets' if the $1 million Bitcoin ransom is not received (the hacker also politely suggested people should 'Google it if you need a lesson on what Bitcoin is'). The person also set up a bit of a race for Romney: first to pay the sum will receive the goods."
2. Nate Silver, national hero, suspected wizard
In a win for big data, analyst Nate Silver won the hearts of nerds and data scientists around the globe by correctly calling the election outcomes of all 50 U.S. states.
The story: "Silver attracted disdain from bloggers on the right this election season, who said that the polls he was using to average and weight had been skewed. One of his most prominent critics, blogger Dean Chambers, admitted to Business Insider that Silver had it right."
1. The President declares victory
With one tweet, Obama broke tech records and political ones. Saying simply "Four more years," the tweet carried the news of the election's outcome around the globe faster than many news networks were able to call their own outcomes.
The story: "Last night, I stood in the middle of a buzzing TV newsroom. Producers scrambled, directors' voices squawked into anchors' earpieces, and pandemonium ensued as the so-called "razor-thin" margin suddenly swung in one candidate's favor and the news networks started to call the race. Then the President ended all speculation by calling the race himself. On Twitter."
Image credits: White House Flickr, Deviant Art, Texts From Hillary, That Is Awesome, Imgur/Reddit/Obama, Davelawrence8/Flickr, ddelay/Flickr, New York Times/YouTube, Barack Obama/Twitter.
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The Vale is in the shadow of the magnificent Mount Roland, creating a stunning and always-changing backdrop.
The pristine Dasher River runs through the length of the property.
The Vale is home to sheep, cattle, wildlife, aircraft and interesting people.
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Once upon a time long, long ago—in the 1960's—a little girl named Suzi moved at the end of summer with her mother, Wilma, into a small apartment in a town that was new to them both. At first, Little Suzi didn't want to move at all, because it meant leaving her grandparent's house in a city where she had lived all of her seven years so far. And, worse yet, it meant leaving her granny and granddaddy behind.
"You'll miss me too much," Suzi told her granddaddy. "You won't have anyone to play checkers with or watch boxing on TV. And who'll help you dig dandelions out of the yard before you mow the grass?" And later, Suzi told her granny, "Who'll lick the big spoon when you make chocolate icing? And who'll watch the cookies and cakes in the oven so they don't burn?"
Little Suzi's mommy didn't want her daughter to feel sad, but it couldn't be helped. "I know you don't want to leave Granny and Granddaddy," Suzi's mommy explained. "Neither do I, but we must. The old factory where I work—the one Granny and Granddaddy worked in years ago—well, it's closing down. I was lucky to find a new job in a town near here. It's not really very far away. We can visit Granny and Granddaddy on weekends."
Little Suzi understood, but something else was worrying her now. "How will I get back here to my school after we move?" She liked her school and she liked her teacher at the red brick schoolhouse in the city. And she liked her little friends in her class.
"Will a bus pick me up and bring me there?" she asked her mommy.
"Oh, no, darling!" Suzi's mommy answered. "It's much too far away for that."
"You mean I can't go to school anymore?"
Little Suzi was nearly in tears at the thought of being alone all day with nothing to do and no grandparents or friends to play with (except, of course, her imaginary, invisible friend Albert).
Suzi's mommy smiled at her daughter. "I would never move to a town with no schools! You'll have a new school in our new town and you'll make new friends." Then she hugged her daughter close to her skirts and patted her hair to comfort and reassure her.
Little Suzi's invisible friend Albert had been quiet until now, but he couldn't hold out any longer: Well, that's too bad. I could do without any old school. First grade was alright, but now that place takes up a lot of our play time, what with all that useless readin' and writin' and 'rithmatic and such.
Suzi heard what Albert said, but she decided to wait until her mommy left the room to scold him. "I like school," Suzi told the silly boy. "Besides, you need to go to school. You don't want to grow up ignorant, do you?!"
But Albert apparently didn't care about growing up ignorant, because he answered her by crossing his eyes and sticking out his devilish tongue at her.
It was not very long before Little Suzi found herself living in the new town with her mommy and getting ready to start her new school. They did miss Granny and Granddaddy, but Suzi would be very busy in school, so the sunny autumn days would go by quickly. All was well—and even Albert had to admit their new garden apartment in the town was a nice place to live—but there was one big change that Suzi had not expected.
When Suzi and her mommy lived with her grandparents in the city, Suzi's school was very near and she could walk there with Albert to keep her company. But in the new town, her school was too far away to walk from the apartment.
"You can catch the school bus, if you want," Suzi's mother had offered, but Albert didn't much like that idea and said as much to his friend: What if I miss the bus because the driver can't see me and he closes the door on my neck? Albert complained. Or what if some big kid sits on my head because he can't see me sitting in the seat next to you!?
But before Little Suzi could try to calm him down, they both heard Suzi's mommy say, "Or maybe you can take the taxi with me."
Suzi and Albert turned to each other with looks of total puzzlement (in the same way dogs and strangers would look at the little girl whenever they overheard her talking to Albert).
Suzi's mother continued. "I mean that we could ride together in a taxi, then the driver can let you off at your school and take me on to my job after."
Now that's more like it, Albert told Suzi. I bet we'd be the only kids on the block who ride to school in a taxi!
Just then, Little Suzi had another idea: "Why can't you buy a car to drive us?"
Shush! Albert said, as he elbowed Suzi in her little ribs. Don't mess this up for us.
But Suzi ignored him as her mommy explained: "I can't afford a car right now. They're too expensive and I don't make that much money yet. Maybe someday."
"Well," Little Suzi persisted, "maybe Granny and Granddaddy can do it. They're retired, aren't they?"
Albert interrupted…again. What's 're-tired' mean anyway? They're tired all the time now. How can they be more tired than they are already? But Suzi was too busy to waste time trying to make sense of Albert's nonsense.
"Your granny and granddaddy live too far away to drive all the way here," Suzi's mommy answered. "I'd never get to work and you'd never get to school on time if they tried to drive all the way over here every morning. And how would we get back home afterward?" Then, Suzi's mommy stopped and had another thought: "And don't you go asking them to do it," she added (thinking to herself, because they just might!).
And that was that. For the whole of that year, Little Suzi rode to school in a taxi with her mother and her invisible friend Albert.
Suzi's mommy sat in the back seat of the taxi with Little Suzi, and Albert squeezed himself in the middle between them. Suzi sat right behind the driver, so she couldn't really see his face except in the thin-sliced reflection of the rear view mirror.
What's his name? Albert asked Suzi.
"Who?" Little Suzi replied, forgetting that her mommy was right there and would hear her.
"What?" Suzi's mommy said.
"What?" Little Suzi said to her mother.
"Did you say 'Who'?" her mother asked.
Now Suzi and her mommy were both completely befuddled, and the taxi driver made it worse.
"What's that, ma'am?" he asked in a low, gravelly voice from the front seat.
Suzi could see him looking up into the rear view mirror from where she sat and noticed a very strange thing…he wore a black patch over one eye! She had never seen such a thing before in her young life, and it both fascinated and frightened her at the same time—especially when he rolled his good eye around to get a look at her in the mirror.
But Little Suzi's mommy saw her daughter staring at the driver, saw her wide eyes and open mouth, and knew right away what she was thinking! So she quickly looked sideways down at her daughter sitting beside her in the back seat. It was a look the little girl knew well. It meant: Don't you dare say a thing! And so, of course, Suzi didn't, but there was no accounting for what Albert might say.
He's a pirate! Albert whispered fiercely into the little girl's ear. (It was so loud that Suzi looked quickly up at her mother to see if she had heard it, even though it couldn't be possible.) Little Suzi could hardly argue the point with Albert because, in addition to the eye patch, the taxi driver was completely bald where his hair might have been and had a flashy gold tooth that showed beneath his bushy walrus mustache.
It was scary enough in the car mirror, but when the driver turned round in his seat and fixed them with his one good eye, Suzi wanted to jump out. He was smiling, but it didn't help much at first!
"My name's Morris," he kindly told them all, but you can call me 'Ol' Patch' if you want. Everybody else does."
"Say hello to Mr. Morris, Suzi."
Her mother's voice snapped her out of it, and the little girl remembered her manners. But all she could manage on that morning of her very first taxi ride with a pirate was a squeaky "hi".
And Albert remained absolutely silent for once in his imaginary young life, even though he continued to stare wide-eyed at the back of Mr. Morris' great shiny bald head and the thin black strap that ran round it to hold the eye patch in place.
Little Suzi stayed very busy the first day of school. She was excited to make so many new friends and to learn about her new teacher. She was assigned a desk to sit in (in alpha-betty order, as Albert called it). She was assigned a coat hook of her very own with her little name printed in large lavender letters on white tape above it. And, finally, she was assigned a reading book all about girls and boys who have adventures in school, in towns, and on farms in the country.
Then came lunch time in the busy and loud school cafeteria and recess outside on monkey bars, then a restroom break and nap time, and then…oh, so many things all in a day!
By the end of the day, Suzi had forgotten all about Ol' Patch the taxi pirate until Albert brought it up again on the way to the front of the school to be picked up.
You scared?! Albert asked his friend while she was putting away her reader in the desk and taking her little coat off the hook in her room.
"Scared?" Little Suzi replied. "Scared of what?"
Ol' Patch, the pirate! Albert reminded her.
"No," Suzi lied. Then she remembered that her mother wouldn't be in the taxi with them this time. She began to feel anxious about what her mommy had said that morning before the taxi arrived: Now, Suzi, remember. The taxi will pick you up in front of the school, then me from work after.
And, of course, Albert tried to make it worse. You know what pirates do, right?, he said while punching her in the arm.
"Take your lunch money?" She only said it because she hoped it might be the worst thing a pirate might do.
Don't tell me you forgot about Peter Pan and Captain Hook from our books at home! And what about Long John Silver? That's what kinds of things pirates do!
Little Suzi was petrified as she waited for the yellow taxi to show up in front of her school. And when it did, she hoped and hoped Ol' Patch wouldn't be the driver. She couldn't even remember if he had a hook or not, now that she thought of it. She jumped when someone put a hand on her shoulder and spoke to her from above.
"Suzi." The girl turned and looked up into the kind face of her new teacher, Miss Fox. "Your mommy left a note with the principal this morning. Is that your taxi?"
The big yellow car was close now, and Suzi could see that the dread pirate was driving. She was too afraid to answer and too afraid to move.
Suddenly, Miss Fox called out to Ol' Patch.
"Afternoon, Mr. Morris. Is this your little passenger?"
Hey! Albert butted in, Miss Fox knows him! She knows the pirate!
And that's when Little Suzi realized Ol' Patch couldn't be a real pirate if her teacher called him 'Mr. Morris'.
From that day forward, Suzi wasn't afraid, and she called her new friend 'Mr. Morris' just as her mommy had told her. And whenever Albert talked of pirates and called him Ol' Patch, Little Suzi would tell him to mind his manners and "hush" so she could tell Mr. Morris all about school that day on their way to pick her mommy up from work.
A patch doesn't make a pirate
(No matter what Albert might say).
You can't judge a book by its cover,
But it pays to be careful, all the same.


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For 9/11 widows, book adds insult to injury. Writer says they relish husbands' deaths
- 6-7-2006
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For 9/11 widows, book adds insult to injury
Writer says they relish husbands' deaths
June 07, 2006
Star-Ledger Staff
No one is much surprised that outspoken conservative columnist Ann Coulter attacks environmentalists and Bill Clinton in her new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism."
But Coulter has raised eyebrows by taking aim at a different target: The widows of 9/11 victims.
Calling them "broads" who are "enjoying" their husbands' deaths, Coulter made her attack on the widows public yesterday, through the publication of the book and during a raucous appearance on NBC's "The Today Show."
"I was shocked that she was focusing on us," said Lorie Van Auken of East Brunswick, who lost her husband, Kenneth, on 9/11, and who was personally attacked in Coulter's book.
Much of Coulter's television interview consisted of the show's host, Matt Lauer, reading portions of the book aloud, including this passage about the 9/11 widows:
"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much."
Coulter, who appeared on the show wearing a short black dress, did not flinch when Lauer asked: "Do you believe everything in the book or do you put some things in there just to cater to your base?"
"No, of course I believe everything," Coulter replied, chiding Lauer for "getting testy" with her as the television audience howled.
"This is as idiotic as Congress debating gay rights," said Kristen Breitweiser, who lived in Middletown when her husband, Ronald, was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Breitweiser is a member of the September 11th Advocates group, also called "the Jersey Girls" because four of the five widows who make up the group lived in the Garden State in 2001. Breitweiser has since relocated to New York City.
"We never met (Coulter); we didn't know that she knew who we were," said Van Auken, another member of the group.
In the book -- published by Crown Forum -- Coulter's attacks get "worse" than they were on television, according to Van Auken, and are addressed specifically toward the New Jersey women.
"We were rather surprised that she had such vitriol toward us. ... She calls me and Mindy (Kleinberg, another 9/11 widow) 'the witches of East Brunswick.' I guess she had nothing better to do with her pages and her words," Van Auken said.
While none of the widows saw Coulter's television appearance -- "Mornings are a little hard for us, we're getting our kids to school," said Breitweiser -- they were deluged with calls by those who had seen the show, as well as calls from the press.
"My reaction is basically that I was not happy that my husband was killed, I took no joy in telling my children that they would never see their father again," Van Auken said. "It's unfortunate that Ann Coulter has focused her energy on trashing people who were trying to fix obvious problems."
"It boggles the mind," said Monica Gabrielle of Bating Hollow, Long Island, the only member of the group originally from New York, when reached yesterday afternoon. "I'm still pretty much speechless. We're debating whether to give any credence to Miss Coulter's comments" by responding, she said.
"Considering the nation is still not as safe as it could be, there are still a host of issues that should get more attention than this," Gabrielle said.
But by early yesterday evening -- in between doctor's appointments, dog walks and dinner preparations -- the widows had decided to write their own rebuttal to Coulter's remarks on television and in her book. They were writing it yesterday evening and hoped to release it before midnight, they said.
"We're going to write a response, but it's going to be handled in the manner we fought for the 9/11 commission (to be established). We are going to take all the erroneous statements by Miss Coulter and refute them in a way that's factual, not political," Breitweiser said.
Among Coulter's comments, the ones that seemed to bother the widows most were not the more personal attacks, but her claim that the widows' activism was motivated by politics.
"They were cutting commercials for Kerry. They were using their grief to make a political point while preventing anyone from responding," Coulter said on "The Today Show."
"We've never been political, we've always been factual. And it's not our fault that the facts look bad politically for some people," Breitweiser said.
"What we fought for -- we just didn't want anyone else to go through what we went through. That was our motivation," Van Auken said.
As of yesterday evening, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," was ranked No.5 by Amazon.com's sales ranking system.
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Is the yeti actually some hybrid of ancient polar bear and brown bear? University of Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes has analyzed DNA from what's purported to be yeti hair samples.
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Sykes's team looked at the 12S RNA gene, something that has already been analysed in all known mammalian species. By comparing his samples with those in GenBank, the international repository of gene sequences, Sykes was able to identify the animals that the hair might have from. "In the case of these two yeti samples that we're talking about, they matched a sequence in the GenBank from a polar bear jaw found in Svalbard, which is at least 40,000 years old." This was around the time that the polar bear and the related brown bear were separating into different species….
Sykes said the results had been submitted to a journal for peer review, so other scientists will be able to examine the results more closely as soon as they are published. He is aware of the limitations of his analysis, saying that there was only a limited amount that could be learned with the hair. "It's 40 years old and not much DNA there really. The next best thing to do is to get an expedition together to find one and see what one is like in the wild and to see if any aspects of its behaviour are more likely to be identified as a yeti. And genetically to find out how much polar bear is in this animal. It might be a hybrid or a new species of bear. But we can't tell all this from one hair sample."


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The Securities and Exchange said Friday that it charged the owner of a Holmdel, N.J.-based brokerage firm with manipulative stock trading that involved an illegal practice known as "layering" or "spoofing" and with registration violations.
Two firms and five individuals agreed to pay a combined total of nearly $3 million to settle the case, which involved misconduct from May 2008 to November 2011, according to the SEC.
"Week after week, Dondero lined his pockets by placing phony orders and tricking others into trading with him at distorted prices," said Joseph G. Sansone, co-deputy chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Market Abuse Unit, in a statement. "The fact that Dondero perpetrated this deceit through the entry of trade orders did not allow him to evade detection."
In layering, traders place orders with no intention of having them executed. The aim is to trick others into buying or selling a stock at an artificial price driven by the orders, which are later canceled, according to regulators.
The SEC says Joseph Dondero, a co-owner of Visionary Trading LLC, "repeatedly used this strategy to induce other market participants to trade in a particular stock."
"The fair and efficient functioning of the markets requires that prices of securities reflect genuine supply and demand," said Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, in a press release. "Traders who pervert these natural forces by engaging in layering or some other form of manipulative trading invite close scrutiny from the SEC."
In addition to charging Dondero, Visionary Trading and three other owners with operating a brokerage firm that wasn't registered as required under the federal securities laws, the SEC charged. New York-based brokerage firm Lightspeed Trading LLC with aiding and abetting the registration violations.
In addition to Dondero, the SEC named Visionary Trading owners Eugene Giaquinto, Lee Heiss and Jason Medvin in the case, along withLightspeed's former COO Andrew Actman.
In settling the regulatory charges, Dondero agreed to pay disgorgement of more than $1.1 million, plus prejudgment interest of nearly $47,000 and penalties of $785,000 for a total exceeding $1.9 million. He agreed to be barred from the securities industry.
Giaquinto, Heiss and Medvin must each pay disgorgement of about $118,600 plus prejudgment interest of roughly $14,400 and a penalty of $35,000 for a combined total of more than $500,000 from the three of them. They are barred from the securities industry for at least two years.
Lightspeed must pay disgorgement of $330,000 plus prejudgment interest of some $43,300, post-order interest of $4,900 and a penalty of $100,000 for a total of approximately $478,000. Actman agreed to a penalty of $10,000 and a supervisory bar for at least one year.


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Five talking points ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix
The Formula One paddock parks up on the French Riviera this week for the Monaco Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton holds a seven-point lead over Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the world championship, while their Mercedes team is 96 points ahead of Ferrari in the constructors' standings.
Here, we look at the key talking points ahead of the sixth round of the season.
Lauda remembered
The race on Monte Carlo's famous streets will be played out against the backdrop of Niki Lauda's death. The three-time Formula One world champion and non-executive Mercedes' chairman died in Vienna, aged 70, on Monday.
Mercedes are set to pay tribute to Lauda with a re-branded livery this weekend, while a moment of silence is expected before Sunday's race. Lauda, who won titles at Ferrari and McLaren, underwent a lung transplant last summer and was absent from the grand prix paddock for almost a year until his passing.
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Will Mercedes' perfect start end?
In Lauda's absence, Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes wrapped up the drivers' and constructors' honours last season. This year, they have recorded five one-two finishes in as many races – unprecedented for the start of a season in the sport's history.
Yet the Silver Arrows will face the fiercest challenge to their perfect start at the unique Monte-Carlo street circuit. The slow-speed track is the least engine-dependant venue on the calendar, and Hamilton has won just once here (2016) for Mercedes.
Could Verstappen be Mercedes' biggest threat?
Red Bull's strong chassis has put them in the driving seat to win in two of the last three years. A pit-stop blunder ruined Daniel Ricciardo's chances in 2016 before the Australian held off Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to win last season.
Max Verstappen was the favourite to take the victory before he put his Red Bull in the barriers in final practice, meaning he was forced to miss qualifying, starting the race from last. The Dutchman, third in the standings after an impressive start to the year, will be desperate to make amends this week.
McLaren in the dock
An embarrassed McLaren will be keen to brush their miserable Indy 500 outing under the carpet after Fernando Alonso was too slow and failed to qualify for Sunday's showpiece race. McLaren's American chief executive Zak Brown will be in the firing line this week following their disastrous return to arguably the world's biggest motor race.
Brown has poured huge McLaren resources and investment into the Indy 500 but following Alonso's horror show, admitted his team were under-prepared. He will have some explaining to do when thrust in front of the world's media on Thursday.
Pressure on Monaco to deliver
The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the biggest sports events on the planet – the rich and famous descending on the principality for the blue-riband race.
But the track is not conducive to a good spectacle. Indeed, last year, Hamilton described the race as boring. Rain is on the radar this weekend which could be the obvious saviour to spicing up Sunday's show.News Now - Sport News


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