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Sabu (サブ, Sabu) is an enka ninja music master. Killer B calls him Sabu-chan (サブちゃん) and later the oddly constructed Master Sabu-chan (サブちゃん師匠, Sabu-chan-shishō).
Personality Edit
Sabu is a calm, collected, and often a dead serious person especially when he is practising enka. This was demonstrated when B joked around during an enka training session, Sabu told him to take the lessons seriously. He is also very passionate about enka singing often moved to tears when performing and noting to B, that his songs should have passion.
Appearance Edit
Sabu is a short, middle-aged man with dark-brown hair which he wears in a punch perm bun-style, thick eyebrows and round black eyes. He wears a cream-coloured kimono, held closed by a purple sash which has two fuzzy tassels hanging in the front. Underneath this, he wears mesh armour which stretch past the sleeves of his kimono.
Abilities Edit
Despite his small stature, Sabu is shown to possess great strength, wielding an enormous axe, many times his own size, with great ease and dexterity. [3] He is also highly observant as displayed during the battle between B and Kisame Hoshigaki where he was able to tell B that his enemy's sword, Samehada was absorbing his chakra, rendering B's attacks less devastating. [4]
Part II Edit
Five Kage Summit Edit
Sabu was introduced while teaching B how to put more passion in his music and singing. Kisame Hoshigaki arrived during their practice to capture B, and Ponta immediately charged at him. As soon as Ponta was defeated Sabu prepared to battle. Kisame ran towards him but was distracted by Killer B, giving Sabu a chance to strike. Killer B attacked as well, but Kisame blocked both attacks with his Samehada, but obtained a minor injury in his left shoulder from one of Killer B's katana. When Killer B began to transform, Sabu noticed that Samehada was absorbing all of B's chakra. After being freed from Kisame's water dome prison with Ponta, Sabu stood back while Killer B continued his fight with Kisame and upon seeing that B was having a hard time at it, Sabu rushed to his aid only to see Kisame's decapitated head fall in front of him and that B and A had killed him; though it was later discovered to actually be a transformed clone of Zetsu.
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Sabu is a playable character in the following video games:
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Trivia Edit
- Sabu-chan (サブちゃん) is the nickname of Japan's most famous enka singer, Saburō Kitajima. Sabu is also the spitting image of Saburō Kitajima and also shares his birthday, October 4.
- In the anime, Sabu's name was changed to Kin (キン, Kin) for unknown reasons.[2] The ending credits refer to him as Kin-chan (キンちゃん).[5]


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The Lab thread got me thinking of this. It seems most of the current great FT Goldens are closely or not too distantly descended from Holway Barty or Topbrass Cotton (son of Barty) on both sides.
Are current FC AFC Goldens that much different from Barty, the son of two English FTCH? I know English trial standards have changed as well as US standards, but the genes of Barty or Cotton can't be that much different from current FT Goldens. Or do you think they are? If not, perhaps we should help the breed pool on both sides of the pond by breeding US to UK.
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Okay, so, i have this 75g fw community, i started small with a ten, and have upgraded both tanks and fish repeatedly, so its kind of an ecclectic build. I want to preface with a cool fact that i got the tank from a biologist who also gave me some fish that cant be bought in the US, and they dont have any cool names, its just a genus specie thing like a mile long. Also he gave me some type of killie, and a plant im not familiar with. Now, a list of what i do know.
4 glo-tetras, 4 albino cory cats, 2 black kuhli loaches, 1 black ghost knife, 3 african dwarf frogs, 2 pictus catfish, 6 ghost shrimp, 6 mystery snails, 3 black mollys. growing some lucious dwarf lily bulbs, 25 nano marimo, 3 large marimo, 20 square inches of christmas tree moss.
i inrtoduced a rainbow shark (4 or 5 inches) who absolutely terrorized my pictus cats, so he was relocated. thanks to an upgrade in filtration my clams are dead, so that is another failed stocking attempt....just trying to share what hasn't worked...
im thinking really hard about clown loaches, but if i remember right they like the bottom, and while i have the real estate, i feel like most of my critters are bottom dwellers already and i dunno if it would be too much traffic for everyone...also how does their temperment go by aquatic community's experiences? will they scarf down plants and snails? im interested in cichlids, ive seen such gorgeous variations, but ive never owned one, i hear they all snap eventually. i am open to all kinds of things, traditional and not so. crustaceans, inverts, and fish. im always plotting an upgrade so dont let the 75 limit your imagination. if an axolotl wouldn't eat everything...
thanks in advance!!!fish are aliens
Hi there.
I personally would not add any more fish to that setup, it sounds extremely overstocked already, especially in the bottom of the tank. Also many of the fish you have listed are schooling fish and need to be in adequate sized schools.
Do you have a test kit? What are your water parameters?
almost all of that was in a 20g long, and thriving, they continue to thrive, my water is AWESOME, better than anything i get lol. im shooting more for ideas about fish and co. tank mates. experiences. favorites. thanks for the input though!fish are aliens
It is almost certain they were all juvies at the time and are moving past that stage now, You first need to get your current schooling stock up to par wrt to schools and that will allow you to figure what you have room for.
Are your random fish gifts going in this tank? It's hard to offer options without knowing the rest of the stock, [If so] Those need to be identified.
What are the actual numbers of your tests? "Awesome" [NO matter how large the font is... Is essentially useless as a description]
Clown loaches need numbers as they prefer company but they get far far to large for your tank, Even if they were the only thing in it.
What is the filtration on this tank?Gas mileage isn't everything OIIIIIIIO
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
I agree it's important to find out what the unknown fish are. Stocking totally depends on others in the tank.
Also agree you have more than enough bottom feeders. Black Ghost Knife alone can get to 20".
You will need to invest in a good liquid test kit. Very important in the keeping of fish. I don't know if you cycled the tank previous to adding the fish but you will have to be very careful if all those are in an uncycled tank.
since the last post.....the pictus cats, mystery fish, and the killie were all relocated. i know the black ghost knife is gonna get massive, but its so tiny right now, about 4 inches. id like to get the glo tetras from four up to eight, and the albino cory cats also up to eight. i can do that on friday when i have off. i burnt up almost all of my test strips in the process of cycling the 75, i know strips arent the best but i had a lot of them at the time, and i just kept comparing between my filtered tap, my established 20g, and the 75g untill everything was ideal. tonight i am at ph7.5, alk between 80 and 120, hardness between the 75 and 150 squares, closer to the hard side, nitrite barely showing color, its not up to the 0.5 yet, nitrate the same, closer to 0 than 20 though. i know these test strips suck but you use what you have!! better mardel than nothing! My tap has a phenominal mineral filter on it, it's not the cheapest way to start a tank, but it works wonders. The 20G long i upgraded from stayed pristine waterwise, too clean infact, it ended up killing my clams because i was overfiltering with a canister, which is now on the 75. I used a good portion of the 20g to fill 75g, plus the bacteria were already established in the filter. The canister was rated for 80g, its a cheap sun sun, but with the ceramic rings and bio balls, ive had great success with it and i recommend it to anyone looking for an affordable canister filter. So thats on the 75, in addition to a bubbler and a 10g power filter mostly for agitation, my spray bar is submerged which has had tremendous effects on my plants, but left me lacking surface movement, so i brought in the 10g power filter.....ummm...friday ill score a liquid master test kit, its pricey but ive invested so much now its definitely worth it. kinda scared of the precise results lol. using a fine sand substrate...two parts black to one part white carib sea sand...dosing with flourish and prime....an occasional underdose of co2 tabs, feeding frozen beefheart, frozen bloodworms, freezedried medley, bottom feeder tabs, algea wafers, not all at once of course. It's been a long day! I hope i hit all the points! I agree the clown loaches would be too big in the end...and i would have to have more than one...so that crosses them off of the list.....any suggestions on fish that do well being the only of their type in the tank? I try to be cautious about overfeeding, but this is the biggest tank ive owned to date, and it dwarfs the amount of food i use, i suddenly feel like im not giving them anything and the tank itself is eating the food....is this all in my head, or is there anything to this? should i up my feeding to compensate for the extra space?fish are aliens
also, i struggle with accepting criticism, but i am in dire need of it, so thanks for putting up with me, please dont give up!fish are aliens
I think they gave up!
haha they truly did! i emptied most of my stock, went with one african brown knife and one black ghost knife, and then filled in some space from there. what space, you may be asking! you'd die to know what i put in there. i just topped it off with some red cherry shrimp and electric blue crays, still has the glofish tetras but i brought them up to 7, and albino cory cats 4 in number. ill be adding more from the nursery tank once they're old enough, ive got about 3 dozen little 1/2" babies. 2 black kuhli loaches, a powder blue dwarf gourami and a couple mystery snails and ghost shrimp, 3 african dwarf frogs. i guess really all that stayed out was the black mollies, the pictus cats, and the rainbow shark. im going to have to brush up on a how to for attachments and photos here, i attempted to upload some photos earlier, but it didn't work out for me. on paper some of my tanks sound grossly overstocked, but my liquid master test kit confirms that in fact the water quality is primo, i never see any fights, maybe a cray will pinch a frog once in a while and scare the heck out of him, but the knife fish get along, they even ignore the shrimp. it seems like all anyone cares about is bloodworms lol. as for the mystery fish from the biologist one was a golden panchax killie, the other two were a male and female fp. kribianus fifinda, they were relocated though to a smalled tank.fish are aliens


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A move to London helped New Zealander Cassandra Ellis take a new career path, leaving behind a marketing job to work as a homeware designer.
When she and her English partner, Ed Prichard, a creative director at an advertising agency, set up home in a flat in Clapham in 2008, corporate jobs were scarce so Ellis took the opportunity to rediscover her long-term hobby of quilt-making and began making them professionally, as well as designing homeware and working part-time as a teacher.
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The Risks of Growing Up Swift
My family is a tough lot.
We're a little rough around the edges.
My father is a big man with a heart of gold and a sometimes unquiet mind.
(We've lived with his bi-polar disorder for so many years now it kind of seems normal.)
My mother is an energetic woman with a penchant for telling very good stories (she's made a living at this for almost 40 years as a journalist).Unfortunately, when I was growing up, many of her stories came from true tales she heard over the police radio at work. Gorey fatalities on Highway 18. Whole families up in flames in a house fire. That kind of thing. Guys who laid their bikes out and ended up paralyzed from the neck down.
(Occasionally I met them during an interview. I tell you there is nothing like being eight years old and introduced to a paralyzed man in a wheelchair. He is surrounded by his five small children and loving wife. Do I reach to shake a hand? Do I wave? It doesn't matter. My mom sits down and writes the notes that will turn into the story. I go play with the other children. In a few days it will appear in the newspaper and people will cry. This may or may not have actually happened. Whatever the case, the memory is still there. Made up or real, I can still picture it in my head.)
I learned to fear motorcycles and narrow highways that did not have a barrier down the center line. There was this macabre quality to some edges of my childhood and I wouldn't exchange it for anything.
It's part of the reason that I like the babyheads. There's definitely something wrong with me.
Some things have changed – Mom doesn't sit and listen to the police radio anymore and I yell at her now when she tries to tell me sad stories. She and Papa live in a little 600 square foot cabin up in the middle of the woods, though neither of them are anywhere near retiring. Sometimes in the winter the driveway turns to ice and Papa has to run a shuttle with the Jeep to get you up and down. There is a fire circle just outside the front porch, which is the main entertainment at night.
Papa's knee is failing these days so he walks with a stick and a limp and we've only recently been able to convince him to allow those evil doctors to install a new one.
Despite the setback, he still spends a fair amount of his time in the old shelter behind the A-frame splitting big logs for the wood stove – or pumping the well on which they depend for water. My mom can hold her own with an axe, too – believe it.
The cabin is home to two large dogs and two strong cats, which are low numbers compared to the usual animal occupancy we enjoyed in our youth. My mom can train a dog to jump rope or deliver Christmas presents or ride a bike (really) but she doesn't spend her time doing that these days.
Instead, she usually tries to convince me to play board games with her, which I hate for justifiable reasons related to traumatizing Monopoly games in my youth. Mom was famous for stealing brazenly from the bank until she became so fed up with our inability to catch her that she confessed everything thereby negating any progress that had been made.
And Monopoly is a long fucking game.
Even after years of admonishing from me, she still believes that she was somehow justified: "But you guys made it so easy!!! I can't believe no one ever caught me!"
"Mom. I was eight!"
The argument never seems to convince her of her wrongdoing. As a result, I've become good at spotting thieves and bad at playing board games.
When the sun sets we build a fire in the fire circle whether it's 3 degrees or 33 degrees. Huddling in wool blankets on cracking, brittle plastic lawn chairs we smoke cigars or sip dark beers and spiked hot cocoa.
Someone tells an old family legend.
The height of the flames are verbally admired.
The sky is quiet and bright and my father's fingers have been broken in at least 18 places.
Later I'll lay in fetal position on the floor in front of the woodstove where I will acquire a dog companion. I'll remember what it was like to fall asleep with my Doberman, Ebony, every night when I was in high school. I'll doze off and remember growing up free and encouraged and loved and a little crazy.
Or maybe a lot crazy.
Either way, I lived. I made it. I survived to adulthood despite all the risks of growing up Swift.
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Sounds like a pretty good way to grow up. Hope you get to play with and story tell to the parents and family for a long time to come.
love you Swifty xo
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This most celebrated of Irish potato dishes exists in numerous variations, depending on the season, the region of the country, and of course personal taste. It is often made with just butter, milk, and kale, but the scholar P. W. Joyce defines "caulcannon" as "potatoes mashed with butter and milk, with chopped up cabbage and pot-herbs." Mary Ward, when she makes colcannon at her house in Nenagh, County Tipperary, starts with a trip to the kitchen garden, armed with a basket and a pair of shears. This is her recipe.
Put the potatoes into a large pot, with the larger ones on the bottom, and add water to come halfway up the potatoes. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. When the water begins to boil, carefully drain off about half of it, then return the pot to the heat, cover it again, reduce the heat to low, and let the potatoes steam for about 40 minutes. Turn off the heat; cover the potatoes with a clean, damp tea towel; and let sit for 5 minutes more.
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Drain and carefully peel the potatoes, then return them to the pot. Add the greens and their liquid and mash until smooth, leaving a few small lumps in the potatoes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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Editor's note: Today Nicole concludes her three-part blog series on her visit to a ChildFund project in a Brazilian favela.
If I thought the streets were steep and winding when driving to Conselho de Pais Crianca Feliz in the Belo Horizonte favela, it was certainly confirmed as we walked to families' homes. Without exaggeration, I can say we walked up near vertical hills, over paved and dirt roads, down crumbling alleys and through overgrown yards. And that is just a fraction of what our community mobilizers (volunteers) do on any average day. They didn't spare us the details or the terrain as we literally walked many miles — if not in their shoes then at least along the same paths.
Our guide was Ziza, a community mobilizer who has volunteered with the organization since November 2000. She goes house to house visiting families to raise awareness about specific ChildFund programs and children's overall health and well-being. As the mother of a 13-year-old son, Ziza is not shy about broaching the topic of child violence, both within the home and within the community at large. Over the 10 years she has spent volunteering with ChildFund, Ziza has earned a reputation in the community for being a problem solver and a great humanitarian.
In fact, she has taken on the personal responsibility of helping raise 13 nieces and nephews. They live with her in her small three-bedroom house — a house with mud-and-stick brick walls and a cement floor. Several of the children share her bed. The most recent to join her is only 3 weeks old. When asked about the heavy burden she has taken on, her response was simple: "I believe greatly in what I do. I don't see problems, I see future solutions."
Walking with her, it became clear that Ziza is an important and valued member in the community. People trust her and we were allowed into homes, down alleys and through areas that we would never pass alone. But with her, there was a calm presence and an unspoken respect.
Along the route I chatted with several children:
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By Lloyd Gray/NEMS Daily Journal
Mississippi has more black elected officials than any other state – more than New York, with six and a half times as many people, or California, with 12 times more.
This is the strongest argument Mississippi has for coming out from under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which requires this state – along with eight others, mostly in the South, and portions of another six with a history of racial discrimination in voting – to submit any changes in election law or procedures to Washington for approval.
It's a cumbersome process, whether it involves something as complex as redrawing districts for boards of supervisors, city boards, legislators or other elective bodies, or merely moving a polling place from one location to another. These and other voting-related changes must be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court in Washington.
For the most part, legal advice given elected officials through the years has held up and the great majority of such plan are approved. We'll know eventually whether that's the case with the voter identification amendment adopted by voters in 2011, which is still awaiting Justice Department clearance.
In spite of this evidence of good faith, Mississippi because of its history of discrimination remains, under the Voting Rights law, a pariah of sorts, still having to go through hoops most other states don't. Shelby County, Ala., in a state similarly situated, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift that special burden and end enforcement of Section 5.
There is logic to the request. How long will states that discriminated be held to special account for it, even with so much evidence of change? Isn't that making them less than equal partners among the states long after it's justified?
The counterpoint to that argument is that the passage and subsequent court interpretation of the Voting Rights Act is the primary reason so much progress has been made. By vigilantly ensuring that Mississippi (and other) jurisdictions don't gerrymander voting districts to dilute black voting strength, the act and its enforcement have been responsible for the election of so many black officials. Given voting patterns that are still pretty race-specific – with a few notable exceptions – elimination of federal review might well result in a significantly reduced minority representation among Mississippi elected officials.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most important legislation of the civil rights era, and it came with the blood of martyrs. It transformed Mississippi and the South. The question now being debated is whether the transformation can endure without a key portion of that act.
But there's another side to the progress that has been made. Efforts to ensure large numbers of black-majority electoral districts, while increasing the number of African-Americans holding office, have also reduced the impact of black voters in other districts. A white official, for example, who has a 35 to 40 percent black constituency will be more attuned to their concerns than in one with, say, 15 or 20 percent. There are fewer such "diverse" districts now, and far more with heavy majorities of one race or the other. That tends to have a racially polarizing effect on the conduct of public business.
Polarization by race and party – in Mississippi, more than most states, the two are interconnected – is the downside of the Voting Rights Act's concern for not diluting black voting strength.
Most Mississippians long for the day when we can get beyond race in politics, but differences of opinion persist as to how near that day is. If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 5, we could well find out.
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CANNES, FRANCE: There was a super-gala opening for the Cannes International Film Festival this year, as an unparalleled collection of great names and great namedroppers in film gathered for the 25th opening. The French Minister of Culture, M. Jacques Duhamel, was present, as were a dozen great directors honored by the Festival: Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, William Wyler, Rene Clement, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lindsay Anderson, Votjech Jasny, Masaki Kobayshi and Robert Bresson (Orson Welles, also honored, was not present).
But hardly anyone noticed the star-studded gathering, for one man dominated the entire gala: a stout, smiling, white-haired figure walking slowly across the state to receive the chevaillier of the Legion of Honor from M. Duhamel. It was the greatest living entertainer in the world: Charlie Chaplin, pried by some miracle out of his seclusion to attend his first film festival. Chaplin listened gravely to the Minister's long laudartory address, evincing surprise when M. Duhamel quoted some of the great comedian's own past statements. Chaplin seemed at the verge of breaking up when he politely asked the Minister if he could borrow his walking stick, and in a flash the old grey figure was transformed into the slap-stick idol who entertained millions as he twirled the cane and shuffled off the platform, the audience on its feel cheering madly.
The films in the Cannes competition got off to an auspicious start the next day with the presentation of a film by a director who is a favorite here: Taking Off, by Milos Forman. This easygoing tragic-comedy of parents searching for their lost daughter was a big hit with the European audience. After receiving a long ovation, Forman told a jammed press conference that "I am not in exile. I have a Czech passport and I work in New York." After declaring that he felt Taking Off was not a film about specifically American problems, but universal in its approach, like all his other films, Forman continued: "I started to think of this film for the first time when I read an interview in the New York Times with the father of Linda Fitzpatrick, who was murdered in the East Village four years ago. That was interesting I itself, but what really fascinated me was to read the interview with the father. All the tragedy and the comedy was in this interview, which won a Pulitzer Prize later, I am told. Everybody in this family was a nice person. There was no trouble in the family, yet they knew nothing of each other's lives. This family was living two lifestyles in one time."
Out Back is the first film to represent Australia at the Cannes Festival. It is a compelling look at the loneliness and desperate friendliness of the Australian back country. John Grant (Gary Bond) is a young schoolteacher in a desolate part of the inland Norht. On his way to Sydney to visit his girlfriend during the Christmas holiday, he is detained at a boomtown nicknamed the "Yabba," where there are only two sins: not accepting the drinks constantly pressed forward, and not thinking the 'Yabba is the greatest, friendliest town in the world. Grant falls under the influence of Doc Tydon (Donald Pleasence) who describes himself as "a doctor of medicine, a tramp by nature, and, of course, an alcoholic,: and a pair of the doctor's rowdy young hunting-drinking companions. The film quickly becomes one long indulgent frenzy of drinking, hunting, and conviviality, like some grotesque fraternity orgy gone made over a whole town.
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I am familiar with the area, they also have a Souplantation that gets unholy busy. But it's a big run out of my region and I've had really bad luck finding stuff up there the past 2 years. Plus, Target will have them for $10 instead of WM/TRU's $12 soon enough, and then I'll have wasted all that gas money plus $4.40 w/tax.
BTW, there's a Rally's in Culver City and here in Los Feliz (actually across the 5 in Atwater), and there's a Wendy's here in Los Feliz, another in Hollywood, one in Burbank... there's a lot of Wendy's, but IMO they've lost their appeal.


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Robeson Jr. to speak at U-Store
Posted June 22, 2001; 10:43 a.m.
Paul Robeson Jr., author of a new biography of his father, Paul Robeson, will speak at the Princeton University Store at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 23. He will be reading from and signing copies of his new book, "The Undiscovered Paul Robeson."
An internationally known scholar, athlete, actor and activist, the elder Robeson grew up in Princeton only a few blocks from the University. He lettered in four sports at Rutgers and graduated as valedictorian in 1919.
Robeson soon began a career in theater and music, winning over audiences worldwide with his oratorical skill and rich baritone voice. He campaigned tirelessly for human rights and freedom during World War II. Later blacklisted as a communist, he nevertheless continued to fight for racial equality and justice until his death in 1976.
Robeson Jr., a journalist and translator, served as his father's aide and personal representative for more than 20 years. In his new book, Robeson Jr. uses diary excerpts, letters and other personal documents as well as his own observations to create an intimate view of his father's life. As a black man, Robeson Jr. writes, his father overcame numerous obstacles but could not face down the media campaign that wrongly labeled him a communist and eventually ruined his career.
The biography covers the elder Robeson's life through 1939, and is the first of two parts.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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May 2012
In NIJ's Research Report Digest, you will find brief descriptions of studies in a variety of criminal justice disciplines, such as criminology and forensic
sciences, and evaluations of technologies that are used in the law enforcement and corrections fields.
This issue includes reports based on NIJ-funded research that were added to the NCJRS Abstracts Database from July through
September 2011.
Find research reports related to:
Residence Restriction Legislation, Sex Crime Rates, and the Spatial Distribution of Sex Offender ResidencesAuthor: Kelly M. Socia
This study examined the influence of housing limits on sex crime rates in New York State. It evaluates how limiting where
sex offenders can live affects recidivism rates. The study examined the characteristics of counties that passed these policies.
It also assessed whether these policies affect the spatial distribution of offender homes in upstate New York neighborhoods,
and whether this spatial distribution is in turn associated with differences in county-level recidivistic sex crime rates.
Laws ban these offenders from living within a given distance of certain places where children might gather. These policies,
first passed in 1995 statewide and in 2005 at the county and local level, have become popular in the United States, but without
proof of effectiveness. Little research on these policies exists. Most of it focuses on the unintended results that these
policies cause for offenders, typically because of reduced housing choices. Results show that while housing limits are sometimes
associated with the within- and between-neighborhood spatial distribution of offenders, there is no effect on recidivistic
sex crime rates.
Read the complete report Residence Restriction Legislation, Sex Crime Rates, and the Spatial Distribution of Sex Offender Residences (pdf, 190 pages)
Automated Detection and Prevention of Disorderly and Criminal ActivitiesAuthor: Nils Krahnstoever
This report describes a wide range of intelligent video capabilities relevant to law enforcement and corrections. These features
can detect many different types of actions and alert operators about the onset of an event, which can enable early detection
and possibly prevention of critical events. One of the main technical challenges was to detect events as well as motion and
behavior patterns from tracks of people in crowded environments. The technology had to recognize common group and crowd motion
patterns, and features such as crowd size, crowd speed, agitation level, and events such as group formation and dispersion.
The detection and recognition must occur on noisy data from a video tracking system. A second technological challenge was
to set up identity records of people based on their facial images in various environments. Once identity records exist, the
systems can record associations between people and then make association graphs that represent the social connections between
people. Researchers did a performance evaluation based on the data collected at the 2009 Mock Prison Riot. The analysis shows
the current system has a roughly 70-percent chance of detecting disorderly or aggressive events in the prison environment
and currently has a 20-percent chance of predicting the event before it occurs.
Read the complete report Automated Detection and Prevention of Disorderly and Criminal Activities (pdf, 128 pages)
Microscopic Analysis of Sharp Force Trauma in Bone and Cartilage: A Validation StudyAuthors: Christian Crowder, Christopher W. Rainwater, and Jeannette S. Fridie
The analysis of toolmarks on bone and cartilage created by sharp force trauma (including knife cuts, stab wounds, chop marks,
and saw marks) is a specialized examination within forensic anthropology. Previous research in this area has focused on identifying
tool class characteristics, but lacks reported error rates for correctly identifying these characteristics. This study produced
known error rates involved in discovering two class characteristics of knives based on the analysis of toolmarks on bone and
cartilage created by a knife. The two class characteristics at issue were blade serration (serrated, partially serrated, and
nonserrated) and the side of the edge bevel of the blade (left, right, or even). Although the partially serrated blades were
sometimes difficult to distinguish from the serrated blades, the partially serrated blades did produce distinct signature
patterns that were recognized by the experienced observers. When considering serrated and partially serrated blades as one
group, the overall correct classification of blade serration for the study was 96 percent, and observer agreement was strong.
Edge bevel was assessed with a reasonable degree of accuracy under model conditions (more than 83 percent), but not when bone
was the substrate (less than 50 percent). Observer agreement was moderate, suggesting more research is needed to fix edge
bevel accurately.
Read the complete report Microscopic Analysis of Sharp Force Trauma in Bone and Cartilage: A Validation Study (pdf, 58 pages)
Quantified Assessment of AFIS Contextual Information on Accuracy and Reliability of Subsequent Examiner ConclusionsAuthors: Itiel Dror and Kasey Wertheim
This study examined the impact of using Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) to help analysts, with attention
to biasing effects on experts of AFIS information. The findings show that AFIS affects examiners, but in some ways more than
others. No guidelines or stipulations exist about how fingerprint examiners may need to change their decisionmaking threshold
when using AFIS. AFIS changes the way that comparisons are presented to an examiner. In non-AFIS searches, an examiner is
often presented with a limited set of prints for comparison. In an AFIS setting, on the other hand, an examiner is presented
with a ranked set of prints, beginning with what the AFIS algorithm has determined to be the most probable match. Most AFIS
"hits" are provided as the top candidate on the list. Although this ranking may be useful information for the examiner, it
may also create a bias. This research examined the potential biasing effects of ranking prints in an AFIS list. In the current
study, thousands of AFIS lists were presented to 23 latent fingerprint examiners as part of their normal casework. The matching
print was included in some of the lists. The position of the matching candidate image varied in the AFIS list, placing it
either at the top, near the top, near the bottom, or at the bottom. The data show that the position of the matching print
affected latent fingerprint examiners. This happened especially when they had less comparison time, but examiners were not
affected by the scores of the matching prints. Mistaken decisions were more likely chosen from the top of the list. Such errors
occurred even when the correct match was present further down the list.
Read the complete report Quantified Assessment of AFIS Contextual Information on Accuracy and Reliability of Subsequent Examiner Conclusions (pdf,
61 pages)
The Statistical Evaluation of Torn and Cut Duct Tape Physical End MatchingAuthors: Frederic A. Tulleners and Jerome V. Braun
This study examined issues related to duct tape physical end matching. It includes criteria for describing the matching process,
a protocol for training analysts in physical end matching, and statistically evaluating the associated error rates and overall
accuracy. The research examined 1,800 torn-tape specimens and 400 cut-tape specimens. The study confirmed that it is possible
to use physical end matching to identify duct tape samples as matching or nonmatching. Differences between analysts, brands,
tape grades, tape color, and method of separation make varying contributions to misidentifications or inconclusive results.
Brand and type grade are seemingly more important than color in their effect on an analyst in correctly identifying duct tape
end matches. Scissor-cut tapes are seemingly more difficult to analyze than hand-torn tapes. However, there is no significant
difference in difficulty of analysis between hand-torn tape and tape cut with a box cutter. Consistent tearing conditions
do not influence an analyst's ability to identify duct tape end matches. This study also showed the importance of peer review
in duct tape analysis and its ability to reduce the number of misidentifications by analysts.
Read the complete report The Statistical Evaluation of Torn and Cut Duct Tape Physical End Matching (pdf, 90 pages)
Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Gendered and Contextual Effects on Adolescent Interpersonal Violence, Drug Use, and
Mental Health OutcomesAuthors: Emily M. Wright, Abigail A. Fagan, and Courtney A. Crittenden
This study sought to build on research that shows that domestic violence increases the likelihood of negative outcomes for
children. The study sought to add to this research by examining the following questions: What are the direct effects of domestic
violence on youth's violence, drug use, and internalizing symptoms? What are the main effects of neighborhood characteristics
on rates of youth violence, drug use, and internalizing symptoms? Does the effect of domestic violence exposure vary across
This study found that youth exposed to domestic violence were at risk for negative consequences. However, the size of these
effects was smaller than found in many prior studies. In addition, some of the findings were not consistent with some of the
literature related to neighborhood influences. Policy implications stemming from the current project include the need to reduce
the prevalence of domestic violence and provide services to children exposed to violence to minimize its harmful effects.
Prior research showed that domestic violence increases the likelihood of negative outcomes for children. Yet few studies have
examined the multilevel nature of exposure among youth, or explored sex differences in the relationships.
Read the complete report Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Gendered and Contextual Effects on Adolescent Interpersonal Violence, Drug Use, and
Mental Health Outcomes (pdf, 140 pages)
Teen Dating Violence: A Literature Review and Annotated BibliographyAuthor: Priscilla Offenhauer
This annotated bibliography and summary of research identify significant research carried out in the decade since 1999 on
the issue of dating violence among high school and middle school youth. The publication includes information about how adolescent
dating violence is defined and measured. It examines the prevalence of such violence, the factors that influence dating violence
for teens, and the types of programs that might be effective for prevention or intervention. The bibliography and summary
cover quantitative and qualitative literature on the definition and prevalence of, as well as risk factors for, adolescent
dating violence (also called teen relationship abuse). Commonly researched risk factors, correlates, or predictors of teen
dating violence include demographic and community-level factors as well as family level, individual-level and situational
risks. The literature survey also encompasses research on the harmful effects of dating violence during the current relationship
and in future relationships. Finally, the bibliography and summary cover the literature on the effectiveness of prevention
programs and on responses to the issue of dating violence in the law and legal systems.
Read the complete report Teen Dating Violence: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography (pdf, 92 pages)
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This guy is as real as it gets. He helped Amanda Berry escape the perverts in Cleveland with the other two women and who knows how many kids...
If he had not responded to her cries for help, who knows how much longer those women would have remained imprisoned in that house?
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By now the Miami Dolphins' season was supposed to be over, with little left to do but make sure quarterback Ryan Tannehill still had all his body parts and the NFL had an answer for what really went on in the locker room.
But something happened on the way to another losing record. Something clicked just when everything seemed to be falling apart after a 300-pound offensive lineman left the team saying he had been bullied.
Columnists, opponents and fans questioned the team's leadership, saying the coaches had ceded control to guard Richie Incognito and his bad-boy antics. But instead of imploding, the Dolphins came together. Instead of tanking, they found ways to win.
"Kind of a blessing in disguise," tackle Bryant McKinnie said.
"Adversity is either going to make your team strong because the leader is going to rally and pull everyone together, or make you disintegrate because the leader is panicking," said Patrick Lencioni, who writes on leadership and team building in business. "Clearly he did not panic."
Owner Stephen Ross expressed his outrage.
"Changes need to be made," he said.
But changes weren't made, at least big ones. Replacements were brought in for Martin and Incognito and they proved capable. The coaching staff remained intact and general manager Jeff Ireland still has his job.
Miami started to win. The line, with backups replacing Martin and Incognito, gave up fewer sacks and opened up more room to run.
And on Sunday, a fill-in safety playing his first NFL game intercepted a pass in the end zone to seal an upset over New England and put the Dolphins in the driver's seat for their first playoff appearance in five years.
"With all the distractions, everybody still wanted to win," McKinnie said. "We found a way to remain focused."
No stranger to adversity, Philbin was still mourning the accidental death of his 21-year-old son days earlier when he was given his first head coaching job in the NFL in January 2012.
His total focus became rebuilding the Dolphins. A four-game losing streak this season didn't shake his plan, and neither did the scandal.
"He laid that plan out from the very first day he was here, and he never wavered from it," defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle said. "Amidst all of the peripheral things that have been going on here during the course of the season, he just stayed the course each and every day and provided the leadership to the players in the team meetings and to the staff in the staff meetings about, 'Hey we are doing things the right way. We are going to continue to move forward and try to build the best organization in the NFL.' Nothing has ever changed."
In the process the stoic Philbin has gone from being on the chopping block to being mentioned as a possible coach of the year candidate.
Lencioni, who wrote the book "Five Dysfunctions of a Team," said it could be that the bullying and team leadership was not as bad as thought. That's certainly the perception of Dolphins players, who stuck up for Incognito.
"If the media is tough on them and they're sticking together, that's a unifying force," Lencioni said. "But it requires credibility on the part of the coach. If the coach is a jerk with no credibility then the whole 'Us against the world' thing probably implodes."
With four wins in the last five games, the Dolphins have a chance to be remembered for more than having a bully in the locker room. It could be the rare team that becomes unified in the face of controversy.
Instead of worrying about the loss of Martin and Incognito, players have embraced the personnel they have. That includes safety Michael Thomas, who was picked up off the San Francisco 49ers practice squad and made his NFL debut on Sunday against the Patriots.
Many of his new teammates said they didn't even know who No. 31 was until he picked off Tom Brady with seconds remaining to seal a game that the Dolphins of old would have probably lost. That didn't stop them from embracing Thomas in celebration.
"Teamwork really is a huge competitive advantage when you can actually make a team play like a team. They may have less talent on the field now but they have a better team," Lencioni said.
"And that may be the real story of the Miami Dolphins of 2013."


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Just registered and writing my first post in GameDev!!
Problem Statement
I wanted to simulate the magnetic field lines (vectors, i.e, direction and intensity) in OpenGL using the Line Integral Convolution technique. Something like this "http://www.mare.ee/indrek/ephi/".
- Is LIC a library? If yes, where can I find one for VC++ 2010 ultimate?
- An example/tutorial explaining the usage in 2D and 3D(if possible).


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Zuccotti Park was first. Dewey Square followed. By the time the Phoenix staff showed up at Occupy Boston to hold our weekly editorial meeting last Wednesday, the Boston squatters were no longer the new kids on America's occupied block — and the protest was escalating before our eyes. Occupiers were facing off with cops wielding fistfuls of plastic cuffs, busloads of union nurses were arriving, and Cornel West parachuted in to lay down some throwback Civil Rights vocals.
I looked at my editors. They looked at me. This thing was live and spreading up and down the coast like red tide. I knew there was only one thing to say: "I'll leave in the morning."
>> OCCUPY BOSTON: follow our coverage at thephoenix.com/occupyboston <<
I would fly down to Washington immediately, and train and bus my way back toward the heart of the outbreak in Manhattan, stopping every place along the way where the 99 percent has taken hold. I wanted to see where it all might be headed — if, in three weeks, Occupy Boston might look like Occupy Wall Street, and if the other mass actions spawning in the Hub's wake might come to resemble the scene unfolding here.
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14.12: Saturn
Is there life elsewhere in the Solar System?
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, may be the most habitable spot in the solar system, other than Earth, for life as we know it. These plumes indicate the presence of water and the internal heat to create liquid water. Is there life? No one knows yet.
Saturn, shown in Figure below, is famous for its beautiful rings. Although all the gas giants have rings, only Saturn's can be easily seen from Earth. In Roman mythology, Saturn was the father of Jupiter.
Saturn's mass is about 95 times the mass of Earth, and its volume is 755 times Earth's volume, making it the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is also the least dense planet in the solar system. It is less dense than water. What would happen if you had a large enough bathtub to put Saturn in? Saturn would float! Saturn orbits the Sun once about every 30 Earth years.
This image of Saturn and its rings is a composite of pictures taken by the Cassini orbiter in 2008
Like Jupiter, Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium gases in the outer layers and liquids at greater depths. The upper atmosphere has clouds in bands of different colors. These rotate rapidly around the planet, but there seems to be less turbulence and fewer storms on Saturn than on Jupiter. One interesting phenomenon that has been observed in the storms on Saturn is the presence of thunder and lightning (see video, below). The planet likely has a small rocky and metallic core.
Cassini scientists waited years for the right conditions to produce the first movie that shows lightning on another planet, Saturn: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/video/videodetails/?videoID=210.
More videos from the Cassini mission are indexed here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/video/.
Saturn's Rings
In 1610, Galileo first observed Saturn's rings with his telescope, but he thought they might be two large moons, one on either side of the planet. In 1659, the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens realized that the features were rings (Figure below).
Saturn's rings circle the planet's equator and appear tilted because Saturn itself is tilted about 27 degrees. The rings do not touch the planet.
A color-exaggerated mosaic of Saturn and its rings taken by Cassini as Saturn eclipses the Sun.
The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1980 and 1981 sent back detailed pictures of Saturn, its rings, and some of its moons. Saturn's rings are made of particles of water and ice, with some dust and rocks (Figure below). There are several gaps in the rings that scientists think have originated because the material was cleared out by the gravitational pull within the rings, or by the gravitational forces of Saturn and of moons outside the rings.
A close-up of Saturn's outer C ring showing areas with higher particle concentration and gaps.
The rings were likely formed by the breakup of one of Saturn's moons or from material that never accreted into the planet when Saturn originally formed.
An animation of dark spokes in Saturn's rings is seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_ring_spokes_PIA11144_300px_secs15.5to23_20080926.ogv. The spokes appear seasonally and their origin is as yet unknown.
Saturn's Moons
Most of Saturn's moons are very small, and only seven are large enough for gravity to have made them spherical. Only Titan is larger than Earth's Moon at about 1.5 times its size. Titan is even larger than the planet Mercury.
Scientists are interested in Titan because its atmosphere is similar to what Earth's was like before life developed. Nitrogen is dominant and methane is the second most abundant gas. Titan may have a layer of liquid water and ammonia under a layer of surface ice. Lakes of liquid methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6) are found on Titan's surface. Although conditions are similar enough to those of early Earth for scientists to speculate that extremely primitive life may exist on Titan, the extreme cold and lack of carbon dioxide make it unlikely (Figure below).
This composite image compares Saturn's largest moon, Titan (right) to Earth (left).
An incredible virtual tour of Titan as learned from Cassini-Huygens is in this video: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/flash/Titan/index.html.
Saturn's tiny moon, Enceladus, is also the subject of a video: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/flash/Enceladus/enceladus.html.
- Like Jupiter, Saturn is made of hydrogen and helium.
- Saturn's rings are composed of water and ice, with some dust and rock.
- Titan has an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen and methane, and may have liquid water beneath the ice.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is the density of Saturn?
2. What is Saturn's temperature and what does this mean?
3. What did Cassini discover about Saturn?
4. How many moons does Saturn have?
5. Explain the theories about how Saturn got its rings.
6. What are Shepherds?
7. What is the Hexagon storm?
Want to know more about Saturn? See https://www.windows2universe.org/saturn/saturn.html.
1. What features of Enceladus lead scientists to think that the moon could have life?
2. What caused Saturn's rings to form?
3. What features of Titan make it a possible location for life, but why do scientists think that this is unlikely?
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I was listening to Roger Hedgecock tonight on my drive home from the extended familys' places and heard him break the news that the Deptartment of Homeland Security has issued an assessment saying that right-wingers might be getting more extreme and LEO/LEA (Law Enforcment Officers/Agencies) should be on the look-out for [conservatives] those with opposing views from the current administration.
1. * (U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
2. (U//FOUO) Proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans
likely would attract new members into the ranks of rightwing extremist groups,
as well as potentially spur some of them to begin planning and training for
violence against the government. The high volume of purchases and
stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by rightwing extremists in anticipation
of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary
concern to law enforcement.
3. (U//FOUO) Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing
extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to
boost their violent capabilities.
4. (U//FOUO) The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.
5. (U//FOUO) Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunition stockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises. Such activity, combined with a heightened level of extremist paranoia, has the potential to facilitate criminal activity and violence.
ETC ETC ETC: Linked below is the whole thing. This is NOT a joke, this is a release from DHS to LEA's around the US. And it's scary... Those they are calling extremists in this, are... me.


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tristancody wrote:You are writing a book and, like many, it has a love aspect. The love may not be a big part of the story or it could be all the story is about, either way, how do you depict it?
The women who have loved me have always been tender, both physically and psychologically.
That's how I do it - I try to express that in the loving relationship.