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Letter: Reconsider decision to drop victims' rights course
This month we celebrate National Crime Victims' Rights Week -- a week when we turn our awareness toward crime victims and the rights they deserve. This year's theme is "New Challenges, New Solutions." In the wake of the tragedy that befell the City of Boston, this theme is particularly significant.
I, like many others, watched in horror as the events surrounding the Boston Marathon unfolded. After the bombs exploded, the first responders performed heroically, getting help to victims almost instantaneously. There is little doubt that this rapid response saved many, many lives.
As the criminal investigation in Boston continues, and the prosecution commences, it is time for the "second" and "third responders" -- those who work in the criminal justice system -- to do their part. The criminal justice professionals will assist the victims in countless ways. They first must identify all of those affected. Then, they will provide notice of court hearings, assist with compensation claims, explain the complicated criminal justice process and ensure that the victims' voices are heard.
We know that first responders, as part of their formal training, learn how to help victims. We find comfort in the fact that when they complete their education, they will know how to apply a tourniquet, perform CPR, and triage in the face of a mass tragedy. Unfortunately, the same does not hold true for the "second" and "third responders." The truth is that many criminal justice professionals graduate from school without ever learning about victims and their rights.
For the past few years, a former colleague and I have taught a course at the University of Wisconsin Law School called "Victims in the Criminal Justice System." We developed this course because we wanted to give law students the chance to develop a firm understanding of the issues surrounding crime victims, which are often complex and nuanced, and are best addressed initially in the classroom rather than in a real-world setting.
This class is one of a handful of courses in the country that focuses on victims. We trace the journey of victims from the point they are victimized through the entire legal process from investigation and charging to post-sentencing. We have speakers from all different disciplines, including prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, survivors, victim advocates, victim/witness specialists, law enforcement and the media. The feedback we receive from the students is overwhelmingly positive with many students commenting that ours was the best class they took while in law school.
Unfortunately, the University of Wisconsin Law School has chosen to drop this class for the 2013-14 academic year. We have been told that it will only be offered every other year due to budgetary constraints even though we would teach it for free. The decision to cut this class for next year will have a detrimental impact on the course because it will stymie the momentum in enrollment we have gained from past years. In addition, the class is mostly composed of third-year law students, those in their final year. Offering it every other year will mean, realistically, that half the student body will lose the opportunity to take the course.
More than 30 individuals, including the Dane County Sheriff, Dane County District Attorney, circuit and appellate court judges, defense attorneys, survivors of crime and victim advocates have contacted the Law School dean asking that this course be reinstated on an annual basis. Former students have done the same.
The new challenges sparked by the realities of the world in which we live today, demand new solutions, such as teaching about crime victims during the formal education process. After all, a law school that instructs students about criminal law without teaching them about crime victims is like a medical school teaching about diseases and their causes without focusing on patient care.
The University of Wisconsin Law School is a public institution funded with taxpayer dollars. The public's voice should matter. I invite you to contact University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Margaret Raymond at email@example.com and ask her to reconsider her decision.
-Jill Karofsky
UW Law School Adjunct Professor and Director of the Office of Crime Victim Services at the Wisconsin Department of Justice
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This thread could go on a long time because I have a lot of CDs, and have started to accumulate some iTunes downloads. It seems that my musical tastes differ a bit from much of what is discussed in this section, though there are some overlaps. So, I thought I would start a thread about the music that is the soundtrack to my life.
Here is how it will work. I'll bring up an artist to discuss and then you can do one of the following:
1) Heap praise upon the artist and tell me how cool I am.
2) Mock me for liking something so lame.
3) Choose your own path somewhere in between.
4) Ignore the thread.
There will be some structure. I'll probably go mostly in alphabetical order, but I think I will begin with the band that was probably my first "favorite" band. The Cars.
I recall hearing "My Best Friend's Girl" on the radio when it was popular. I also recall riding in my brother-in-law's Trans-Am one day while visiting my sister in Seattle, and The Cars was the only tape he had in the car, so I heard it a couple times that day. Then one day in 1978 or 1979, my mom and brother come home from town. My brother had got his first two vinyl LP's. One was Blondie's Parallel Lines, the other was The Cars. We listened to that album a lot. Until 1986, they were far and away my favorite group.
As far as I'm concerned, their first two albums (self-titled and Candy-O are a couple of the best albums of all time. Panorama had a different feel to it and wasn't as successful, but I still enjoy it a lot. At this point, those three and Complete Greatest Hits are the only ones I have on CD, though I have the others on vinyl or taped from my brother's LPs. Shake It Up and Heartbeat City don't seem quite as awesome to me as they did back then, but they are still good albums with some songs that I really like. Their last album doesn't quite hold up as well, and was kind of an anti-climactic finale for them. Unfortunately, Ben Orr died of pancreatic cancer on October 3, 2000. The New Cars thing hasn't really got me excited. It has guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboard player Greg Hawkes with Todd Rundgren on vocals.
One other note. As popular as The Cars became, I sort of considered them alternative, though I didn't have that term in my mind back then. I recall when I was still in grade school, I would ask others in my class what their favorite band was. When I would say that my favorite was The Cars, they'd usually think of the song by Gary Numan. With Heartbeat City though, the Cars became more popular than they had ever been, while most people will know Gary Numan by that one song.

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The Lines To Take are accessible to IDF Europe member associations and collaborators through a password-protected page. Click here to access the page and download the Lines To Take.
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I found another Shadow Guard today at Torrance Walmart. The two should look good next to the Emporer. Some scalper lookin dude grabbed the rest before I could. This walmart STILL hasn't gotten any Iron man stuff. Can someone stash me a War Machine walmart exclusive Iron man? I'm on my hands and knees begging here people!
Burbank Target got in a case of TFU this morning. I picked up Rahm, Juno, Maris, and the Evo Stormie, Commtech got the Guard and Jump Trooper. Vader was stashed, I think. No sign of Iron Man OR the SW endcap with Aayla's Starfighter. They might be waiting for whatever spring reset hits in a few weeks (unless Order 66 is just its own mini-reset thing).
Still just a bunch of Marvel Repaint comic packs (barely more'n a peg's worth, plenty of room for more so their computers SHOULD be ordering more... same with GIJoe Comic Packs, a peg of Hawk/Scarlett and that's all it's been for weeks)
Picked up the 2 TFU Troopers at Target this morning. Hurrah!
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The IDF Diabetes Impact Studies were proposed and undertaken by the IDF Task Force on Health Economics with the understanding and intention that the data generated by these studies would become freely available to the diabetes research community.
This webpage contains links to the source microdata for the IDF Diabetes Impact Study in China, and to the data analysis programs that we used to clean, transform, and analyze these data for publication in Yang W et al. (2012) Medical care and payment for diabetes in China: enormous threat and great opportunity. PLoS ONE (in press).
Please refer to Yang et al. and its appendices for a full description of study methods and results. The interview schedule used in the Chinese study (including field codes) is one of these appendices.
The data-cleaning and data-analysis programs were written in R, an open source program. The links on this page are to text files that R will recognize and run.
The datasets are provided here as CSV (comma-separated variable) flat files that the R programs will open and that the user can view in EXCEL or in other spreadsheet and database programs.
To protect the privacy of study subjects, these datasets do not contain names, addresses, phone numbers or other data that could be used to identify individual study participants. Datasets from the original Chinese national screening study, from which we drew our participants, and against which our subjects are compared in the paper, are not included.
The EpiINFO data entry program, also posted on the IDF website [2], generates five separate datasets, corresponding to five different sections of the interview schedule (the schedule, itself, is reproduced in Yang et al., Supporting Information 1):
- CHINA_DEMOGRAPHICS_SUBMITTED_SOURCE.csv [3]
- CHINA_HUI_SUBMITTED_SOURCE.csv [4]
- CHINA_SERVICES_SUBMITTED_SOURCE.csv [5]
- CHINA_IMPACT_SUBMITTED_SOURCE.csv [6]
- CHINA_MEDS_SUBMITTED_SOURCE.csv [7]
The versions of these datasets that are available to download are not the raw data: personal identifiers have been removed, the data have been verified against the hardcopy questionnaires, cleaned (in EXCEL) to remove implausible and inconsistent values, and in a few instances of service utilization and payment values, winsorized to reduce extreme values to the level of the highest remaining natural value of the variable.
We used the R program, CHINA_DATA_CODING_RCODE.txt [8], to recode and transform variables into forms more convenient for analysis and to create three amalgamated datasets for use in statistical analyses. The last lines of this R program generate output datasets 'tot', 'x', and 'y', which yielded, respectively:
- CHINA_CLEAN_RECODED_SOURCE.csv [9], an amalgamation that was not used in subsequent analyses;
- CHINA_PERSON_DATA.csv [10], a collection of all the original and transformed variables and values at the person-level, i.e., one value per variable per person; and
- CHINA_MEDS_DATA.csv [11], a collection of all the data relating to medicines, in which the data are transformed so that the unit of observation is the person-medicine, i.e., one observation for each medicinal compound reported by each person in the study.
The R program, CHINA_PERSON_ANALYSIS_RECODE.csv [12], inputs the dataset CHINA_PERSON_DATA.csv [10] and outputs tabulations, regressions, and test results for persons.
The R program, CHINA_MEDICINE_ANALYSIS_RECODE.csv [13], inputs the dataset CHINA_MEDS_DATA.csv [11] and outputs tabulations and statistical test results for person-usages of medicines.
If you are interested in using these data and programs, you are welcome to contact the global principal investigator of the IDF Diabetes Impact Studies, Dr. Jonathan Brown, at [email protected] [14], for technical assistance and advice. Or, you may telephone him in the United States (Pacific Time Zone) at +1 503 473 4796.


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Obama Soon To Step Down? Impeachment, as well as Imprisonment Is Being Forecast by Experts
Original post made by Truth Seeker, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on May 10, 2013
Deleting the word "terrorist" from the descriptor "terrorist extremist" -- ostensibly because Obama didn't want initial reports to upset the Islamic world -- is probably the worst lie ever concocted out of our nation's White House.
"People may be starting to use the I-word before too long," Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on a recent radio program.
Inhofe suggested that President Obama could soon be impeached, and possibly even imprisoned, over what he alleged was a White House cover-up after last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview Thursday with the "Rusty Humphries Show" that impeachment would become an issue soon over the "greatest cover-up in American history," with imprisonment following soon thereafter.
"People may be starting to use I-words before too long," Inhofe said.
"The I-word meaning impeachment?" Humphries asked.
"Yeah, for starters," Inhofe responded.
"Of all the great cover-ups in history — the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, the Iraq War, all the rest of them — this … is going to go down as the most egregious cover-up in American history," Inhofe said.
Asked to elaborate on what he meant by "the Iraq War," Imhofe paused for several moments and then said, "Scratch that."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 10, 2013 at 3:52 pm
What a load of bs. Please, enough with the conspiracy idiots already. This is the same senator who said Obama was out buying up the entire supply of ammunition in the US to prevent gun owner from stockpiling so he can take away every gun in the country without the citizenry being able to fight back. Bozo.
a resident of Livermore
on May 10, 2013 at 4:14 pm
thank you for sharing toothless seeker...tee hee
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 10, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Seriously, this says it all- "Asked to elaborate on what he meant by "the Iraq War," Imhofe paused for several moments and then said, "Scratch that."
and is the reason I can not take anything these yahoos ever say.
a resident of Dublin
on May 10, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Janna is a registered user.
Inhofe is an idiot. Enough said.
a resident of Birdland
on May 11, 2013 at 10:39 am
I do not know about impeachment and as one who voted for President Obama I would like to know the details about fast and furious, benghazi, cash for clunkers, etc. I do not understand if everything is on the up and up why we as taxpayers are not told the truth.
a resident of Dublin
on May 13, 2013 at 9:39 am
I, for one, am not surprised by the talk of impeachment. The biggest problem we have with the inevitable downfall of the messiah is the doofus waiting in the wings to take over for him. Uncle Joe couldn't be happier that O's regime is predictably imploding.
a resident of Birdland
on May 13, 2013 at 10:42 am
I've always respected guys like Inhofe. He rallies Oklahomans in response to Obama taking away their guns, he reminds them about how the govmint is hoarding ammo, and just like that up spring patriotic Americans like Timothy McVeigh. Thank YOU Senator Inhofe!


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VBoxMount is a little tool for providing virtual disk images from VirtualBox as linux block devices. It uses the linux kernel's network block device driver to do it in userspace (otherwise we'd have to bring vbox code into kernelspace which is a no-go).
I have been developing it for Topalis. From the very beginning of the project it was clear that it should become open, and maybe integrated into VirtualBox itself later. It is currently hosted on Launchpad, including all its awesomeness (bazaar branches, releases, bug-tracker).
Grab the first release here. File bugs here. Have fun!
The next item on the ToDo is snapshot support.
P.S.: It is a bit ugly to build right now, mostly because the VirtualBox' SDK doesn't include the necessary headers, nor a package-config file. I will file a "bug" about that at their bug tracker and hope that this will change.
If out-of-tree building doesn't work, you could try the old in-tree branch here. The in-tree version is not as up-to-date as the out-of-tree since I only use the latter one for developing.
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- license check enable, If you have problem with dashboard after update, try to uninstalled, then reinstalled it
- Removed many icons that potentially violating Google Policy
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Aura Icon Pack v3.2
Requirements: 4.0.3 and up
Overview: Aura icon pack features a gorgeous color palette consisting of 6 colors. You'll notice shapes and specific elements have a raised shadow, similar to my Elementary icon pack.
Feel the aura of autumn
Aura icon pack features a gorgeous color palette consisting of 6 colors. You'll notice shapes and specific elements have a raised shadow, similar to my Elementary icon pack. These help the companion colors really pop. Each icon is made from scratch as vectors on a 512px canvas, and sized down to 192px to ensure no quality loss.
Extras included in the dashboard app:
Material inspired dashboard
Many alternative icons labeled alphabetically
Tap on any icon to get the app name(names may be wrong during beta)
Smart icon request
Dynamic Calendar icon support
30+ original wallpapers
Now featuring over 1000 icons and weekly updates
Launchers Supported:
*Action Launcher Pro
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*CM Theme Engine
*Go(switch off "icon mask" in Preferences)
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**Unicon and Beautiful Icon Styler apps should work with stock launchers, as well as CM theme engine with this app**
New improved dashboard featuring faster load times and ability to choose wallpaper for lock screen.
Icon request added back in
70+ new icons including support for Digical dynamic calendar
Over 300 activity fixes
Stock activities added from Samsung, HTC, OPO and others.
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Veronica - Icon Pack v5.7.2
Requirements: 4.0.3 +
Overview: Veronica is an icon pack designed to give a fresh and modern look to your device.
We've designed every single icon following principles of cleanness and minimalism.
▪ 1824+ unique icons
▪ Dashboard App
▪ Cloud-based Wallpaper Chooser
▪ Icon Preview Section
▪ Icon Request Tool
▪ Dynamic Calendar Icon Support
▪ Muzei Live Wallpaper Support
Launcher compatibility
▪ Nova Launcher
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READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Needed to load installed applications in icon request section.
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - Needed to save wallpapers from cloud to the local user storage.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - Needed to know whether you are connected to the internet or not.
INTERNET - Needed to download wallpapers from cloud.
WAKE_LOCK - Needed to support Muzei Live Wallpaper.
VIBRATE - Needed for an easter egg inside the dashboard app. I bet you can't find it!
CLEAR_APP_CACHE - Needed for a feature we're developing for the dashboard app.
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Overview: Welcome to Karmanu Icon Pack. The very new look icon pack on Playstore.
1. 3450+ icons (and growing)
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3. XXXHDPI Icon 192x192 px
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6. See & Search all icons
7. Smart Icon Request
8. Support Muzei
9. Image picker, attach as an image to email, hangouts, Etc or even use it to create Zooper widget
10. Dinamic calendar support (including Google and Today Calendar)
11. Help section, contains FAQs with search function
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13. Show/Hide launcher icon from app drawer
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Woonsocket Emergency Management has opened two (2) cooling centers in the City.
Woonsocket Emergency Management has opened two (2) cooling centers in the City. The WoonsocketSenior Center at 84 Social Streetwill be open Tuesday-Friday, July 16th-19th from 8:00 am-4:00 pm and the Harris Public Library will be open Tuesday and Friday July 16th and 19th from 9:00 am-5:00 pm and Wednesday and Thursday, July 17th and July 18th from 9:00 am- 9:00 pm. These facilities will only offer shelter from the heat and humidity, as well as public water fountains and lavatories; they do not offer any other amenities such as food or entertainment.
The heat index, a combination of the temperature and the humidity level, is expected to reach and/or surpass 100 degrees. It is advisable that young children, the elderly and those people that have respiratory impairments stay indoors and avoid prolonged activity. Check on your neighbors. All outside work should be limited during the extreme heat of the day, drink fluids to avoid dehydration. Pets should be kept cool and have a constant supply of water.


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Comment License + exceptions for disability (Score 1) 301
I think drivers of autonomous cars should have licenses. Even if they aren't directly driving, they're still responsible for keeping the vehicle in proper functioning condition.
I do, however, think there should be reasonable exceptions for people who can't get a regular driver's license because of a physical disability such as bad eyesight.


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LiverKick.com Interviews Daniel Ghita: "K-1 is Back This Year"
- Written by Dave Walsh
It is safe to say that Daniel Ghita made an impression on fans across the world on January 28th, so much so that his status within the Heavyweight division has shot up and many are considering him to be one of the best, if not the best Heavyweight in the world. It was immediately clear to us that we had to pick Daniel Ghita's mind and find out what the future holds for him. The only problem is, as is in most cases, Ghita's english is not as great as it could be, so we reached out instead to his trainer Anil Dunbar to have him translate the questions for us and then translate his answers into English. A special thanks goes to Anil Dubar for making the interview happen as well as Karel ten Haaf for getting us into contact with Mr. Dubar.
First of all, congratulations on the win over Hesdy Gerges. Huge win and incredibly impressive.
Thank you very much, it was a good strategy that my trainer, Anil Dubar choose for me and it worked perfectly.
Do you feel like the evolution of Daniel Ghita is sort of complete now, that the Daniel Ghita that we saw against Hesdy Gerges is a more complete fighter than the one that fans first saw in It's Showtime and K-1 a few years ago?
The evolution is still going on, this to all the credit to my trainer, Anil Dubar, as he is working with me two times a day since I moved from Romania to Holland, and every match I am getting better, getting used to working with him,so you will see me growing in every fight. When I was in Romania, before i meat Anil, I was training with some friends and it was not professional, but when I moved over to Holland three years ago and started to train professionally it began paying off as you can see.
At this point, do you think that you are the top Heavyweight Kickboxer in the world?
Now that Badr Hari is leaving kickboxing I think that I am going to be the number one Heavyweight.
Out of the Heavyweights active right now, who do you want to fight next? Do you want to avenge past losses to Gokhan Saki and Semmy Schilt, or are you simply looking forward?
My main goal is to stay the It's Showtime Champion as long as possible,but of course I want to avenge those two losses. My manager, Simon Rutz was already busy with booking a revenge fight with Gokhan Saki, he made a good offer to Saki for the It's Showtime title on June 30th in Brussels, but sadly Saki refused that offer.
Glory and TSA are holding a Heavyweight tournament this year, have there been any talks of you competing in it, do you want to fight in it?
I'm really not sure, that is up to my manager, and if the offer is good I will fight anyone, anywhere.
The K-1 situation is a mess right now, do you have any insight as to what is going on with them?
I have some very good news about K-1, they are coming back this year and they offered me a new contract. Under this new contract I'll receive 50% of the money that was owed to me, so that is really good news for all the fighters in the world.
Do you feel that Kickboxing needs K-1 or that Kickboxing will be fine without the K-1 name and K-1 World Grand Prix?
Before K-1 there was kickboxing and after K-1 there will be kickboxing, but I'd say that kickboxing really needs K-1. Without K-1 we are really missing something special in the world, so yeah, we would miss K-1 for sure if it didn't exist anymore.
Badr Hari left for Boxing, Tyrone Spong will probably compete in MMA, do you have any desire to fight in another sport or is Kickboxing your main focus?
If some organisation will give me an offer that I cannot refuse then I would think about it, but my main focus is kickboxing and to win the K-1 World Grand Prix.
Did you have a hero in Kickboxing that you looked up to or modeled yourself after?
I really liked watching Peter Aerts, he was the one that gave K-1 name the worldwide fame, he is the real legend of K-1.
You've mentioned in the past looking to retire when you would win the K-1 World Grand Prix and possibly retiring after the 2010 World Grand Prix Finals. With K-1 being in disarray right now, do you still have the same goal, or has your success convinced you to continue competing for a long time?
My trainer convinced me to keep fighting, to win as many K-1 and It's Showtime titles that I could, so I will not retire any time soon, I will compete for as long as I can.
If you were to retire tomorrow, what would you choose to do as a career?
I really don't know, maybe teaching kickboxing, but when I eventually retire I will take a nice and very long vacation first hahaha.
Your next fight is against Sergei Lascenko whom you've defeated in the past, who has also improved in the past few years. Do you believe that he'll provide more of a challenge this time?
For sure, I am the champion right now and he want to prove that he is on my level and can beat me, but I take every opponent seriously so I don't underestimate anyone.
Do you have any other fights scheduled or in talks that you can tell us about?
It's Showtime in Brussels on June 30th, I will fight Frederic Sinistra because Gokhan Saki cancelled on our fight.
What is your favorite Knockout in your career?
My favorite KO is the KO from the K-1 Final 16 2010 in Korea over Errol Zimmerman, with this KO I was the first Romanian fighter to ever qualify for the K-1 World Grand Prix Final 8.
Quite a few fighters have retired in the past few years, do you regret not getting to fight any of them?
Not really, there is enough of a challenge out there for me, but I would liked to fight Remy Bonjasky. He sad he is willing to do a retirement fight, so I am always available for him if he wants to fight.
What is your dream fight, any fighter alive or dead, active or inactive?
My dream fight is with Badr Hari, but he has left kickboxing for boxing. There were many people talking about wanting me to fight Badr after I knocked Gerges out, but he has left kickboxing. Although, if he does come back to kickboxing he should be prepared to fight me.


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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Low
Posted On August 28, 2012 by Carmen Yeung
The National Snow and Ice Data Center has just announced critical ice in the Arctic Ocean melted to record low levels this summer. The Washington Post reports:
"As of Sunday, the Arctic sea ice cover had shrunk to 1.58 million square miles, the smallest area since satellite measurement began in 1979. With the melting season not yet over, the ice will almost certainly contract further in the coming weeks before it begins to re-form."
Arctic sea ice plays an important role in moderating the global climate. The bright surface of sea ice reflects sunlight back into space. Each year, portions of it melt in the summer, exposing the ocean surface. While the sea ice can reflect about 50 to 70 percent of the sunlight back into space, the dark ocean absorbs approximately 90 percent of the sunlight, heating the water and causing Arctic temperatures to rise even further. This process creates a feedback loop as warmer temperatures cause further sea ice melt. The reduction in Arctic sea ice has far reaching impacts on global atmospheric patterns and ocean circulation. Learn more about the important role sea ice plays in regulating the global climate here.
Here at Ocean Conservancy, we have been urging the government to stop Shell's Arctic drilling plans and protect this fragile and vitally important region. A green light for Arctic drilling would mean placing an already stressed environment in greater jeopardy, which isn't worth the risk. The decrease in seasonal sea ice has created the potential for a dramatic expansion of oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters. Currently, there is no adequate technology, technique or infrastructure to respond effectively to an oil spill in icy Arctic waters, and darkness, hazardous weather, or sea conditions could delay spill response for weeks.
Even without a major accident, day-to-day oil and gas operations create significant environmental disturbances. Seismic testing, exploratory drilling, and increased vessel and air traffic associated with oil and gas operations generate noise and air and water pollution, with the potential to affect whales and other marine animals and, in turn, the people who depend on them for subsistence.


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On the site of The Ellipse on the South Side of the White House is the official National Christmas Tree. Every year since 1954, displays of smaller Christmas trees decorated with unique ornaments from each of the 56 states and territories the trees represent. Together with a festive bonfire, live reindeer, and a stage for musical entertainment, the month before Christmas is known as the Pageant of Peace. Each year a special program is prepared in limited numbers by the nonprofit Christmas Pageant of Peace, Inc. to showcase the events before the official lighting of the National Christmas Tree.
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Have you ever tried to figure out scores for a football team? Take a look at this dilemma.
Carla knows that the Springstead Raiders, the high school football team won 80% of their games this year. She is wondering how to understand that percent.
What is a percent? Do you know?
This Concept will help you to understand percents so that you will be able to help Carla by the end of the Concept.
We see percents all around us every day. If you walk into a store of any kind, you will often see a percent sign. Whether it is a sale sign for 10% off or a sign on a bank for a new mortgage rate, by looking all around you, you will see percents.
What is a percent?
Simply, a percent is a part of a whole.
It is a part of a whole that is being compared to 100. In this way, we can also think of a percent as a ratio. Remember that a ratio is a comparison between two quantities.
Fractions and decimals are also parts of a whole.
We can say that fractions, decimals and percents are all related.
Let's think about percents in a little more detail.
Look at the word "percent." Its root "cent" means one hundred and "per" implies division or means "for each." If you have three candies per person, it means three candies for each person. So "percent" means one for every one hundred.
If 25% of the people want chocolate cake, then 25 out of every 100 want chocolate cake. For this reason, percent can be written as a fraction with the denominator being 100.
Now think about this again. Anytime you see a percent, you know that the amount is being compared to 100, or is "out of" 100.
18% means 18 out of 100
We are comparing the quantity of 18 to the whole of 100.
125% means 125 out of 100
Here we have a percent that is greater than 100. This means that we have greater than the total whole included in our percent.
That's a great question. It is possible because we are thinking about what's possible not the actual number. It is possible to have 100 percent on a test. However, if there are bonus questions, then you could also have greater than 100 percent. Sales is like this too. If a car salesman needs to sell 5 cars in a week that is 100 percent for him. However, if he sells 8 cars, then he sold greater than 100%.
Remember that a percent is a ratio compared to 100! Write this down in your notebook.
Write each example as a percent.
Example A
23 out of 100
Solution: 23%
Example B
18.5 out of 100
Solution: 18.5%
Example C
97 out of 100
Solution: 97%
Now let's go back to the dilemma from the beginning of the Concept.
If the team won 80% of their games, then Carla can think of this as out of 100. It means that the team won 80 out of 100 games. If the team did not play 100 games, then you can get an idea of how they did by simplifying the ratio.
Take a look at the ratio now.
This means that the team won 8 out of 10 games. A pretty great season!
Guided Practice
Here is one for you to try on your own.
Write this as a percent.
Carmen saw 100 movies in one year. She chose 60 of the movies as her favorites. The other 40 movies were not her favorites. Write her favorites as a percent and the other movies as a percent too.
To start, let's write the favorites as a percent.
Carmen chose 60 out of 100 as favorites.
Carmen did not choose 40 movies as favorites.
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Directions: Write the following percents as a ratio with a denominator of 100.
- 64%
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- 119%
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- 88%
- 99.5%
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Directions: Write the following as percents.
- 12 out of 100
- 13.5 out of 100
- 87 out of 100
- 99 out of 100
- 5 out of 100
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New Space, New Look for MARWednesday, November 28th, 2012
Director's Musings
Barbara Epstein, Director
As you know, in May 2011 MAR moved to the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. By January 2012, we were fully staffed by four energetic coordinators, an administrator, and an Executive Director. But, alas, we had very little extra office space. So MAR staff were housed in a variety of makeshift offices on the upper floor of Falk Library of the Health Sciences, our flagship library.


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how long till my guppies give birth???
Hey guys,
I have a video of my 2 pregnant guppies and I don't know how long till they give birth?
And I still haven't got my tank planted yet. I only have java moss but I have some driftwood I am treating so i can get rid of that ugly bell :)
CheersAqua one AR-850 40 gallon
10 neon tetra
5 black neon tetra
5 Guppies
(still stocking it)
Java moss (Anubis and java fern on driftwood next :) )
If you have a male and female guppy, very soon, your tank will be overrun by the guppies. What are your long term plans to deal with this issue? Also, starting with two will result in a terrible inbreeding issue long term (you can't give these back to a ILS for reselling.)
You don't give details on your tank size so no idea on what the effect on your tank parameters a large number of guppies will have. By the way, I can't get your link to work.
Last edited by Cermet; 01-05-2013 at 12:28 PM.Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
For Fishless cycling:http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=5640
My personal experiences taught me that guppies may not overrun the tank if you have male and females which is something many are concerned about. My wife had me get some guppies for one of the tanks that I had running about 2 years ago, the way I had the tank setup there was not many places for the fry to hide so the adults were able to hunt down the majority of the fry. The adults I had would eliminate all but perhaps 2 or 3 fry and the adults did not have batches of fry very often either which helped. The liquid rock and cooler water temperatures (hardness around 300 ppm, pH = 8.4, temperature 68-72, ammo 0, nitrites = 0, nitrates = 20-40) I had them in might have played a factor too.
If you have a fish or two that is proficient at hunting fry and there are not many places for fry to hide you may not have to worry much about a guppy population explosion.
The wife had kept guppies before we meet and she described the tank as having more guppies than water so she has seen both extremes.


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Hi Dakota. Did you mean the Cancer did not grow? If the liver actually did not grow I am sorry about that but had not heard of that before. What do they suggest to do now?
Any suggestion I offer is intended as friendly advice based solely on my own experience. Please consult your doctor for professional guidance.


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Our favorite nonagenarian style icon, Iris Apfel is making headlines again. The Boston Globe reports that she's donating over 600 articles of clothing and accessories (we're talking the likes of Lagerfeld, Dior, McQueen) to the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
All 600 enviable pieces were already lent to the museum during its 2009 exhibition, "Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel." After reading the news of her collection's permanent return to the museum, we thought it a perfect time to open our treasure chest and relive our interview with Apfel—shot as she as she marked the exhibition's opening by styling our Nordstrom Northshore windows.
"If you can have one good little black dress and have a lot of accessories, you can change the look of the dress, and you can have umpteen outfits and always look good."—Iris Apfel
This rare bird of fashion is sheer delight.


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Oatmeal Studios Explains Why They Are Suing The Oatmeal
Oatmeal Studios is a New England based card company that was started 35 years ago in Vermont. The company is suing TheOatmeal.com, a comic website founded by Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com now has a partnership in place with Recycled Greetings to publish his cards. Below is a statement that Oatmeal Studios sent out about the lawsuit:


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We have a new guy in our little hunting circle with me and my friends
And he has yet to kill a bird and still trying to get things right ....
He had an odd look on him when we were talking about our hunts so far this year
I think he was living under a rock because when we made reference to a Tom or jake
He was confused and we tried to explain it to him an adolescent male is called a jake ..
He got his phone out and said no it is called a jack ??
So if anyone can get this clear so I can show him the proper nick names
And to clear the fog he has created in my head would be nice ...
As far as I have known ::
Young males are jake's
Adult males. Tom
Young females Jenny
Adult females Jill ...
He keeps referring to wiki and some other web pages and brings print outs
With this information ... He is a nice guy but, me joe Wayne mark and Jamie are trying to
Help him and get him going the right direction ... He is 41 never owned a gun never hunted
And now is hanging around us ...
Sorry this is from my phone I cannot log in from my computers for some stupid reason
Thanks ....


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The Megapixel Wireless N PTZ Internet Camera, model TV-IP672W, provides security over a large area. Pan the camera side-to-side a remarkable 340° and tilt up-and-down 115° from any Internet connection. Wireless n technology provides unsurpassed wireless coverage and improved streaming video quality. Add this camera to your wireless network at the touch of a button with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS).
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Marilyn J. Clifford
Marilyn J. Clifford, age 57, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 6, 2012 at Maplewood of Sauk Prairie. She was born in Richland Center on October 28, 1955, the daughter of Roger and Carolyn (Hesell) Deal. Marilyn was a long time employee of Milwaukee Valve Company in Prairie du Sac.
Survivors include her significant other, Merton Pagel, three children, Jane (Richard) Wolff, Nick Schaller and Daniel (Shayna) Hornbeck. Five brothers, Roger (Joyce) Deal, Loyd Deal, Jeffery Deal, Justin Deal and Michael Deal. Three sisters. Terry Mellem, Debra (Bob) Kotte and Lisa Harried. Five grandchildren, Logan, Cydni, Ritchie, Nakeya and Destin.
A memorial service will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at Hooverson Funeral Home, Sauk City. A visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. until time of service on Wednesday.


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Speaking Event: The Torah of Reconciliation
Join Rabbi Shelly Lewis as he discusses his groundbreaking new book. The Torah Of Reconciliation is the result of Rabbi Lewis' personal, passionate search for wisdom on peacemaking recorded in Jewish tradition. Beginning after the grief surrounding 9/11, he was determined to locate the pathway described in Jewish texts towards reconciliation. While there are, to be sure, contradictory messages to be found in the length and breadth of the tradition, there is an obsession with overcoming conflict and avoiding violence in the service of a world at peace. Peacemaking is arguably the key pillar among Jewish values. A people that has known repeatedly the agony of conflict has never stopped longing for and searching for the keys to security and tranquility.
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No wonder the cops and the feds can't catch Whitey Bulger: they're too busy beating the shit out of each other. That's the impression one gets from Martin Scorsese's exuberant, ultimately exhausting The Departed, which transplants the dynamics of the 2002 Hong Kong cult hit Infernal Affairs onto the malignant streets and wacky characters once ruled by the fugitive mobster. The film remains true to the genre and authentic in atmosphere and details nearly to the end before blowing it all with a few too many bullets to the head.
It begins in a Southie unfamiliar to viewers of Matt Damon's Good Will Hunting, a Southie shown first in news clips from the '70s of locals beating on black people during the busing crisis. With the opening riff of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" ringing on the soundtrack, Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) — crime boss, psychopath, philosopher — chimes in with his theories on race, power, and self-reliance. Nobody gives you what you deserve, is his advice to blacks, you have to take it.
Such words seduce young Colin Sullivan. The Church wants you in your place, Frank tells the wide-eyed altar boy as he shakes down a diner owner and hits on his pre-pubescent daughter. Tell them, "Non serviam." Colin takes up the Satanic invitation and ends up serving Frank. A match cut is made from Colin the boy to Colin the State Police cadet. Later, after graduation, he gets a lift from Frank. He's his mole in the department.
As is the case in such films at least since Angels with Dirty Faces, the boy from the neighborhood who goes wrong is balanced out by one who goes right. With fellow cadet Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), it's a bit more complicated. He's a hothead with a record, but he's also sensitive. A head case, and thus a perfect candidate, according to avuncular department captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and his bad-cop sidekick, Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg), to infiltrate Frank's gang.
What this set-up says about the duality of human nature means less than the anarchic performance of Nicholson. There's a bit of everything here: the Joker from Batman, Jack from The Shining, Buddusky from The Last Detail. One minute he's in a box at La traviata; the next he's coming from the back room of a dank barroom, seemingly distracted, his arms bloodstained to the elbows.
He holds the film together even when Scorsese sets off a bunch of flashbacks and parallel-edited montages like a long string of firecrackers. Scorsese's sense of place helps too: though a lot of the film was shot in Brooklyn, it feels like a certain circle of Boston hell. Maybe despair, rage, sin, and pee smell the same everywhere. If The Departed had only the badinage and the donnybrooks of Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin as his department nemesis going for it, it would still be one of the better films of the year.
But as in the original, women are the film's downfall. One woman, in this case, as Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan tighten the screws by making Colin's girlfriend and Billy's shrink the same person. Vera Farmiga's Madolyn is a plot device as vague as her accent. So too are the perfunctory pot shots of the dénouement. Scorsese isn't about plots; he's about people, places, and times, and until he departs from that, this film is a return to genius.
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When info on open and Q is available please pass along.
When info on open and Q is available please pass along.
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Congrats to Michael hill and miiiiaaa on the second place in the qualifying!
Can some one post the qualifying placements and any updates on the Special All Age? Thank you.
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3rd # 13 Noah H/ Jim Beck
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Derby call backs to the 3rd.........2-5, 9-13, 15
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Open to the 4th.......1,4,9,12,14,21,22,24,34,37,38,43,44,51,5 5,57,58,59,66,70
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"While China and Japan may look like they're competing in Africa, the two countries are actually playing different games."
As tensions between China and Japan multiply, there is an increasing battle for influence in other states. For example, in his recent article in The Diplomat, Jin Kai noted China and Japan's global media war. There has also been an upswing in more traditional diplomatic wrangling, with Japan seeking to increase its influence in ASEAN as an attempt to reduce China's sway in the region. With both China and Japan seeking to assert their leadership over the Asia-Pacific, it makes sense that both countries would woo ASEAN. It's a bit more surprisingly to see China-Japan diplomatic competition supposedly pop up in Africa.
Recently, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both visited the African continent. Abe left on January 9 for a week-long tour of the Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, Wang was in Africa from January 7 to January 11, visiting Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, and Senegal. Given the current chill in China-Japan relations (and the tendency for both countries to snipe at each other in the media), the two trips quickly morphed into a sign of 'competition' over Africa.


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Capoeira performances highlight 'Taste of Brazil,' Dec. 6
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Capoeira combines acrobatics, music, martial arts and dance. According to historians, capoeira's dance-like movements were used by Brazilian slaves to conceal combat and self-defense training.
Capoeira masters from Brazil and the United States will be featured in the Dec. 6 event, which is sponsored by Princeton Capoeira . It is co-sponsored by the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, Black Graduate Caucus, Program in African Studies, Program in African-American Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, International Center, Office of Religious Life, Undergraduate Student Government Social Fund, Modern Improvisational Music Association and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
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So we have a new SimCity game after years of waiting and its great... mostly.
The game has rave reviews and is very fun but the launch has been a mess. You have to be online to play (form of DRM) and well the servers keep crashing, millions cant even play in single player. I got in... im playing on an Asian server
The game is now based around a region system, lots of smaller interconnected cities, you can share resources (like power) and services like Police just like real life towns, this is cool but the city size is now smaller than previous games.
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My region
Two "feeder" cities that only excist to provide my main city with power and resources.
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National Security Advisor Donilon's Remarks at the Launch of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, April 2013
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon spoke at the launch of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy on April 24, 2013. He discussed the effects of U.S energy policy on the economy, environment, international relations, and national security.
Excerpt from Donilon's remarks:
"First, the new U.S. energy posture and outlook will directly strengthen the nation's economy. There are not a lot of iron laws of history. But one is that, as the President has said, a country's political and military primacy depends on its economic vitality. Our strength at home is critical to our strength in the world, and our energy boom has proven to be an important driver for our economic recovery—boosting jobs, economic activity, and government revenues. Take the example of North Dakota, where unemployment has dropped to near 3 percent, the lowest in the country, and the state has a $3.8 billion budget surplus, largely due to increased unconventional gas and oil production in the state. IHS CERA estimates that shale gas supported direct and indirect employment for 600,000 Americans in 2010, a number that could double by 2020.
America's natural gas boom is helping to spark a domestic manufacturing revival. Manufacturers in energy-intensive sectors have announced up to $95 billion investments across the U.S. to take advantage of low-cost natural gas. The largest investments announced have been in the chemicals sector which uses natural gas as a feedstock, but there have also been major announcements in other industries like steel, plastics, and glass. For the first time in over sixty years, the United States is exporting more refined petroleum than it is importing. The reduction in energy imports has a positive impact on our trade balance, helps lower domestic and global energy prices, and allows a greater share of the money Americans spend on energy to remain within the U.S. economy.
Furthermore, as a result of the Administration's historic investments in clean energy, tens of thousands of Americans have jobs and America is now home to some of the largest wind and solar farms in the world.
Domestic economic developments like these improve U.S. standing and send a powerful message that the United States has the resources, as well as the resolve, to remain the world's preeminent power for years to come.
Second, America's new energy posture allows us to engage from a position of greater strength. Increasing U.S. energy supplies act as a cushion that helps reduce our vulnerability to global supply disruptions and price shocks. It also affords us a stronger hand in pursuing and implementing our international security goals.
For example, the United States is engaged in a dual-track strategy that marshals pressure on Iran in pursuit of constructive engagement to address the world's concerns about Iran's nuclear program. As part of the pressure track, the United States engaged in tireless diplomacy to persuade consuming nations to end or significantly reduce their consumption of Iranian oil while emphasizing to suppliers the importance of keeping the world oil market stable and well supplied. The substantial increase in oil production in the United States and elsewhere meant that international sanctions and U.S. and allied efforts could remove over 1 million barrels per day of Iranian oil while minimizing the burdens on the rest of the world. And the same dynamic was at work in Libya in 2011 and in Syria today.
Third, the development of a more global natural gas market benefits the U.S. and our allies. We have a strong interest in a world natural gas market that is well supplied, diverse, and efficiently priced. Increased U.S. and global natural gas production can enhance diversity of supply, help delink gas prices from expensive oil indexed contracts, weaken control by traditional dominant natural gas suppliers, and encourage fuel switching from oil and coal to natural gas.
A decade ago, market analysts forecast that the U.S. would need to import large volumes of natural gas by pipeline and LNG. Since then, domestic production has reached historic highs and domestic natural gas reserves have almost doubled. Gas supplies originally destined for the United States are being redirected to other countries.
Many of our allies have expressed interest in the potential of the United States as a global natural gas supplier. The Department of Energy is currently reviewing at least seventeen applications to export U.S. LNG to non-Free Trade Agreement countries. It will conduct a comprehensive review of all relevant factors to determine whether each non-FTA LNG export project is deemed to be consistent with the public interest.
Global demand for natural gas is projected to rise by one-fifth over the coming decade. Burning natural gas is about one-half as carbon-intensive as coal—which makes it a critical "bridge fuel" as the world transitions to even cleaner sources of energy.
Fourth, reduced energy imports do not mean the United States can or should disengage from the Middle East or the world. Global energy markets are part of a deeply interdependent world economy. The United States continues to have an enduring interest in stable supplies of energy and the free flow of commerce everywhere.
We have a set of enduring national security interests in the Middle East, including our unshakeable commitment to Israel's security; our global nonproliferation objectives, including our commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon; our ongoing national interest in fighting terrorism that threatens our personnel, interests and our homeland; our strong national interest in pursuit of Middle East peace; our historic stabilizing role in protecting regional allies and partners and deterring aggression; and our interest in ensuring the democratic transitions in Yemen, North Africa and ultimately in Syria succeed.
Which brings me to my fifth point: though it is typically discussed in terms of its energy, environmental or economic implications, the changes to our climate that we are seeing are also a national security challenge.
The national security impacts of climate change stem from the increasingly severe environmental impacts it is having on countries and people around the world. Last year, the lower 48 U.S. states endured the warmest year on record. At one point, two-thirds of the contiguous United States was in a state of drought, and almost 10 million acres of the West were charred from wildfires. And while no single weather event can be directly attributed to climate change, we know that climate change is fueling more frequent extreme weather events. Last year alone, we endured 11 weather-related disasters that inflicted a $1 billion or more in damages – including Hurricane Sandy."


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Chris Brown's tattoos have made headlines quite a few times since the beginning of his career.
Even though they're beautiful pieces of art he uses to express himself, Chris' tats do get people talking and bring the polarizing star some extra controversy.
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The latest Chris Brown tattoo made headlines yet again, since it looked like a picture of his ex-girlfriend Rihanna's face after the two went through a domestic dispute back in 2009.
It is in fact a "Sugar Skull," which is associated with the Mexican celebration of the "Day of the Dead," combined with a MAC cosmetics design that Brown had seen.
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Bracketology: NCAA Tournament Projections on Feb. 9
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Now that the NFL season has concluded, this is when the college basketball season starts to heat up. We're nine games into the conference season and once again we're seeing a very weak bubble field. I do like the way the 68-team bracket is structured. It has created more parity by the addition of two more at-large teams. There's going to be four "play-in" games. Two games will...


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Every weekday in 2008- except for Christmas Day- we saw another cool street-parked vehicle from the streets of Alameda, California. Now I'm going to share my personal favorite ten DOTS finds of the year.
These are the cars and trucks that, for one reason or another, really made my day when I ran across them on the streets of Alameda. Some of them are on this list because they're rare and/or interesting (the "Whoa! What's that?" factor), while others made the cut simply because I yearn to own them. And, yes, the Fire Arrow falls into the latter category, because I'm sick like that. So here we go, my personal Alameda DOTS favorites for Ought-Eight:


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Facebook Ads Helped Bridget McCormack Win A Seat On The Michigan Supreme Court
Bridget Mary McCormack won a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court on Election Day last month. Part of that victory can be credited to her Facebook campaign. She spent over half of her late advertising budget on the social media campaign. Around one week before the campaign, McCormack's popularity was struggling. She was running on the non-partisan section of the ballot which is often overlooked by voters. An outside group also made a large TV ad buy against McCormack by framing her as a friend of terrorists. She had supposedly represented terrorism suspects in court in the past.


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Stephen Moyer and Anna Pacquin
The 'True Blood' couple hangs out at the Governor's Ball.
Zooey Deschanel
Just wants to go home already.
Jane Lynch
The Emmys host holds court at the Gov Ball.
Michael Bolton
Fresh off his performance with The Lonely Island.
Alan Cumming
Look at those pants! He matches the step-and-repeat at the HBO party.
Peter Dinklage
Fresh from his Best Actor win.
Paz de la Huerta
We love her so much!
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The 'Mad Men' crew celebrates their win at the AMC party.
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Long before he won the title of chess champion of the world—and then became a fugitive , a raving anti-Semite and anti-American, and secluded in Iceland, Bobby Fischer was a part of my childhood. Starting in 1958, when Bobby became the youngest grandmaster in history at age 14 (he was about four years older than I), he was frequently in the news and in magazines and on TV.
Then, in 1972, with his showdown against Boris Spassky, he became an international superstar, challenging Muhammad Ali as the most famous person on the planet. That was his high point, but he remained in the public eye for years after, almost as well known for his failure to defend his crown (his mental health, and confidence, rapidly slipping) as he was in winning it.
The paranoid rantings began, and when he finally met Spassky again it was in Bosnia, defying an international ban—earning a US indictment and making him a wanted man. Hence: evading arrests in a return to Iceland, where he had defeated Spassky, forever, until his death in 2008 at the age of 64. .
Now, an excellent full-length film about his wild life, Bobby Fischer Against the World, directed by Liz Garbus, comes to HBO on June 6, with four more air dates after that. It unearths dozens of clips of Fischer over the years, from gawky prodigy to international man of mystery to sad geezer maniac, with a special focus on the epic 1972 match, complete with references to George McGovern and a soundtrack of musical hits from that year (when was the last time you heard Blood, Sweat and Tears?).
This becomes a geopolitical tale, a cold war thriller, as the eccentric American takes on the wily Russian. I was not aware that a Russian had always held the title in the modern era making this a possible propaganda victory for the USA. Henry Kissinger recalls that he practically demanded that Fischer play, and humble, Spassky. It would be, in a way, Moon Landing II.
Yes, his mother and father, in Brooklyn, were Jewish. Mom was a leftwing activist (possibly a Communist). The man Bobby thought was his father was not. In any case, he hardly had a childhood, so fanatical was his devotion to chess. He was, in a sense, checkmated early in life. The anti-Semitism: that's another story.
Garbus has also directed the Oscar-nominated The Farm:Angola, USA and Emmy-winning Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, among other films. Among those interviewed in the new documentary: Malcolm Gladwell, Dick Cavett, famed photographer Harry Benson and various chess champs, including Gary Kasparov.
Greg Mitchell's latest books are The Age of WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning: Truth and Consequences, also available as e-books at Amazon.


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6.0L Engine Swap in a 1982 Chevy K5 Blazer
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GM's LS-series engine has taken over the automotive world; it is now a common sight between the fenders of muscle cars, hot rods, planes, but what about trucks? For a long time, the fear that an LS conversion would cripple a bank account left truck enthusiasts clinging to the SBC and BBC that motivated the hobby for more than 40 years. Things have changed, and those not willing to evolve will be left behind at the gas pumps filling up at $4.00 a gallon. So what options are there? Engines pulled from a Camaro, Corvette, GTO, G8, and other LS-powered cars can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 and are not a common sight in local salvage yards. The alternative is to look for an engine out of a late-model GM truck. These trucks have an engine life expectancy of 200,000-plus miles, so salvage yards are littered with GM truck engines pulled from wrecks. In addition to being readily available, these engines are extremely affordable when compared to a crate motor. The truck engines are under the Vortec badge, yet feature all the same technology as the popular LS1, LS2 , and LS3 except with an iron block in most cases. A 5.3L truck engine with full accessories can typically be located anywhere in the U.S. for under $1,000 and that's with low miles. These 5.3L engines are the most common engine of the entire LS family and offer 300-plus horsepower in a stock application. A 5.3L with a performance cam, LS6 intake, and headers is easily capable of 400 hp. The larger truck engines such as the 6.0L and 6.2L can demand more money, but offer even greater power potential. With that being said, there is an LS engine for nearly any budget and power demand.
This conversion will break down the complete LS swap process, including installing an LS–based motor into one of the most common 4x4 platforms in the world, the 1973-1987 GM truck and 1973-1991 GM SUV. While this swap is specific to the GM truck platform, the same basic principals will apply to any vehicle receiving an LS conversion. This swap happens to be on an '82 Chevy K5 Blazer. This '80s icon was purchased off Craigslist for the total price of $1,200 and came with a run-of-the-mill 305ci small-block. The motor took forever to start, 15 minutes to warm up, it leaked oil, and offered less-than-desirable fuel mileage and performance with only 160 factory horsepower. The Blazer is planned to take over as a daily driver, so the need for a fuel-efficient and reliable motor is crucial.
Engine choice is typically the first step in any LS conversion. Retro LSx was contacted to locate a suitable engine for the Blazer. After discussing the amount of horsepower we desired, an '04 Cadillac Escalade 6.0L LQ9 engine, with 345 hp from the factory was chosen. When purchasing any engine, regardless of its cubic inches, it's important to get all the necessary components from the donor vehicle. The components needed for any LS swap are as follows: starter, alternator, power steering pump, and A/C compressor. The engine's electronics are also critical if you plan to reuse the OEM harness as we did on this conversion. Make sure to locate an uncut engine harness, PCM, mass airflow (MAF) sensor, gas pedal, and O2 sensors. Also note that emission laws vary between states, so be sure to check with your local laws before attempting an engine transplant. For this swap, we used an '82 Chevy Blazer, which is exempt from Georgia emissions testing because it's more than 25 years old.
Dakota DigitalSioux Falls, SD 57107
Hot Rod RevolutionCumming, GA 30040
Retro LSXwww.retrolsx.com


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