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Walter the Vampire, Setting the Record StraightReview of "Pop Culture Sucks: Manifesto of a Vampire," released on Kindle December 22, 2012.
Cairdeas Winery Bids Farewell to West SeattleCairdeas hosted its final tasting event in West Seattle this past Memorial Day with plans to cut the ribbon on their new winery in Mason, Washington, near Lake Chelan, sometime in June.
Seattle Wineries Launch an Urban Wine Trail Along With Companion WebsiteA coalition of 14 Seattle wineries recently launched a website promoting an urban wine trail streatching from the University District to South Seattle.
NYC girls high school soccer team on 40 regular season win streakThe Beacon High School varsity girls soccer team continues to dominate NYC, winning their 39th and 40th straight games this week and outscoring their opponents 15 to 0.
Reigning NYC high school football champ Fort Hamilton extends win streak to 35The Fort Hamilton varsity football team continued their dominance of the league Saturday by extending their current win streak to 35 regular season games with a 22 to 12 victory over Boys and Girls High School.
What Makes Bay Ridge the Best Neighborhood in Brooklyn?I have lived in Bay Ridge for over two years and can confidently say that it is the best neighborhood in the city, for all kinds of reasons.
New York City memorials on the 10th anniversary of 9/11Many organizations throughout New York City are providing special occasions to remember, reflect, and commemorate the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the 10th anniversary.
Kansas City Firefighters Climb in Memory of FDNYAs the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, terrorist attacks approaches, Kansas City firefighters will climb 110 stories to commemorate the fallen.
Lieb Cellars Presents a Special Wine to Commemorate 10th Anniversary of September 11thLieb Cellars has produced wines to benefit different September 11th charities for seven years, but this year they are releasing several to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
One Tower or Two: The 9/11 Memorial as a Process of Grief and HealingI have always said that to me, the perfect 9/11 memorial would be to re-build the towers. But now, I wonder if that isn't simply a desire to deny that it happened.
An Exploration of Brooklyn Wine Shops that Offer Free TastingsThere are many Wine shops scattered throughout Brooklyn that offer free tasting events. Here are some of our favorites along with some new discoveries we have yet to explore
Brooklyn's Art, Culture Step Out of Manhattan's ShadowHere we discuss a few Brooklyn specific opportunities for upgrading your life that are simply too good to miss out on.
Summer in Brooklyn: 5 favorite summer spotsCheck out our favorite summer-time spots and attractions in and around Brooklyn, NYC.
The 5 Best Viewing Spots for the New York City Fourth of July FireworksWhile the Fourth of July Fireworks on the Hudson River will be viewable from all over, not all viewing spots are created equal. Here are the five best.
Fourth of July in NYC: Fireworks lawsAs New Yorkers prepare to celebrate Independence Day, many are planning amateur fireworks displays with little knowledge regarding the legality of their pyrotechnic shows. Here is what you need to know.
New Eastern Chinese Restaurant Closed by Department of Health with 48 Violation PointsThe Department of Health closed New Eastern Chinese restaurant Monday, June 13th, citing the restaurant with 48 violation points just four months after issuing an A
The faded glory of Bay Ridge: A beautiful Victorian mansion left to decayDespite its utter dilapidation, passersby of 245 83rd St. often stop and stare, captivated by the more than 100-year-old Victorian mansion now left to weather the ravages of time alone, a remnant of Bay Ridge's faded glory.
Father's Day 2011 Events Around Brooklyn, NYCThis Father's Day check out these unusual activities around Brooklyn. There is something to interest virtually every dad.
Barbone Closed by Department of Health After 1st Inspection in 20 MonthsThe Department of Health closed Barbone Thursday after the Italian restaurant's first inspection since October of 2009 revealed 77 points of health violations.
Pratt Pizza Closed by Department of Health with 76 Violation PointsThe Department of Health closed Pratt Pizza Thursday, after an inspection revealed 76 points of health violations, a 69 point increase from December when Pratt Pizza was awarded an A.
Father's Day brunches around NYC: Prime options for any dadHere we detail a few prime Father's Day special brunch deals throughout the NYC area that will have your dad wondering how you turned out so well.
Lee Lee's Bakery Closed by Department of Health with 83 Violation PointsThe Department of Health closed Lee Lee's Baked Goods after Tuesday's inspection identified 83 health violation points
Hing Wong Closed by Department of Health with 41 Violation Points FridayThe Department of Health closed Hing Wong Friday following a not-so-horrible 41 violation point inspection.
Vicki's Restaurant and Bakery Closed After DOH Inspection Finds 121 Violation PointsThe Department of Health closed Vicki's Restaurant and Bakery after an inspection identified 15 violations worth 121 points Friday, June 3rd.
New King Chinese Restaurant Closed by Department of Health FridayThe Department of Health awarded New King Chinese Restaurant with an A back in January, with 0 violation points, but was closed Friday following 58 point inspection.
Cholula Grocery's Deli Closed & Re-Closed by Department of Health FridayThe Department of Health re-closed Cholula Grocery's Deli last Friday after an inspection revealed several critical health violations persist from the previous week.
Van Buren Baseball Defeats Info and Network Tech, Moves on to Championship Semi-finalsThe Martin Van Buren High School varsity baseball progress to the championship semi-final round to face 23rd seed Queens Vo-Tec tomorrow, Sunday June 5th.
NYC Division-B High School Baseball Playoffs Upsets: No. 9 Is the FavoriteThis year's PSAL Division-B baseball playoff tournament has produced so many big upsets that the top-ranked team remaining in the semi-finals is ninth seed Washington Irving.
Brooklyn Tech Girls Handball Plays Through Spring Break, Extends Season to 7 and 0The Brooklyn Technical High School girls handball team continued to dominate opponents through spring break, defeating Boys and Girls High School 5-0 Monday and allowing only 4 points.
No Break This Spring for Grand Street Softball, Only VictoriesThe Grand Street Campus varsity softball team played three games this week while the rest of NYC public school enjoyed spring break, winning two including the only league game.
Brooklyn Tech Baseball Team Plays First Game March 29thLast year the Brooklyn Tech High School varsity baseball team finished second place in the division, this year they will have to make do without a couple of star seniors but have 18 players returning, including some big stars.
DOH Awards Cafe Steinhof with A-grade Three Weeks After B-lvl ReportCafé Steinhof was awarded an A this last Wednesday, barely three weeks after receiving a B level 22 point report.
Fort Hamilton HS Girls Handball Team Opens Season by Shutting Out FDRThe Fort Hamilton High School girls handball team stepped out onto the court for the first match of the season on Tuesday, March 22nd, and absolutely decimated their opposition, 5 to 0.
Bay Ridge Eatery Can't Seem to Break the A-barrier, DOH Cites 3rd Consecutive B-lvl ScoreBay Ridge Eatery was issued a B back on September 1st after scoring 17 points on the follow-up to the August 17th report on which they scored 21 points. On Tuesday they scored 21 points again.
Victory Car Service Works with CB-10 to Address 3rd Ave Parking Issues; Renewal Application ApprovedVictory Car and Limo service's license renewal application sparked some lively discussion at the March CB 10 meeting this last Monday, the 21st, mainly regarding the double-parking problem on 3rd ave.
CB 10 Approves New Commuter Van Service from Sunset Park & Bay Ridge to Staten IslandCommunity Board 10 voted unanimously to approve a new commuter van service that will connect Sunset Pak, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights to Staten Island.
Bay Ridge Weekend Wine Beat: Big Weekend at Long's, March 24th, 25th & 26thLong's Wine and Liquors is hosting multiple tastings this weekend, including California gems on Saturday & Sunday, Scotch on Saturday and Irish Whiskey on Sunday.
Longbow Pub Cited for Obstructing or Interfering with DOH OfficerLongbow received only one violation from Tuesday's DOH visit, but its worth 28 points: "Duties of an officer of the Department interfered with or obstructed."
Alchemy Restaurant Releases Dine in Brooklyn Menu for March 21st to 31stAlchemy Restaurant and Tavern released lunch and dinner menus for Dine in Brooklyn week featuring some mouthwatering dishes.
Brooklyn Tech Softball Team Wins Season Opener 22 - 3The Brooklyn Tech varsity softball team kicked off the 2011 season last night with a 4 inning 22 to 3 rout of Boys and Girls High School. Last
Telecom Softball Team Earns First Win with a 19 - 0 Blowout Over FDRThe High School of Telecommunications softball team took their first win of the season last night, winning a 19 point 4-inning shutout against last year's third place team, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Fort Hamilton Softball Team Wins Season Opener Against Midwood, 7 to 6The Fort Hamilton softball team started the 2011 season in stellar fashion last night with a close 1 point win over last year's 3rd place division team, Midwood, 7 to 6.
Global and International HS Baseball Season Starts Friday, March 25thGlobal and International Studies High School baseball team will face their first opponent of the season this Friday.
Skinflints Earns "A" from DOH One Month After Slightly Less Favorable ReportSkinflints was cited by DOH with 17 points on Feb 24th but earned an A on yesterday's follow-up inspection, with only 5 points.
Asian Food Culture Restaurant Re-opened with Perfect Score from DOHThe DOH re-opened the Asian Food Culture Restaurant on Monday with a perfect score of Zero.
Controversy Surrounds V Lounge Cabaret Application at Recent CB-10 MeetingIt would not be entirely accurate to say that Community Board 10 either approved or disapproved V Lounge's cabaret application, even though a motion was made and passed.
Cobble Hill School of American Studies Baseball Season Starts Friday, March 25thCobble Hill School of American Studies baseball team kick off the 2011 season on Friday at 4 pm when they visit Erasmus Hall.
New NYC Program Allows Tickets to Be Contested Online, Thanks to Councilman GentileA new program that allows parking tickets to be contested online, complete with the ability to submit photos and other evidence went into effect on Monday, March 21st.
Banneker HS Baseball Season Starts Friday March 25thThe Banneker Baseball team plays their first game of the season this Friday, March 25th when they visit Paul Robeson, a school that finished 1 and 15 last year.
CB-10 Approves Gold Coast Deli at 3rd & 86th in Old Chianti Space, Scheduled to Open June 1stCB-10 approved Gold Coast Delicatessen last night, with an expected opening of June 1st.
Councilman Gentile's Efforts to Change NYC Parking Ticket Appeal Process Bear FruitFines from unfair parking tickets do not have to be paid before the appeal process is complete and the final decision reached, as a direct result of Gentile's efforts to bring the issue to the attention of the Department of Finance.
Clinton Hill Art News: Last Call for 'Industrial Society and Its Future Failure' Re-Pop March 30thMatthew William Robinson's 'Industrial Society and its Future Failure' captures an aesthetic beauty of abandoned, decaying and rundown locals, but will be ending Wednesday March 30th.
New Fort Hamilton Library Set to Open March 28th with Grand Opening April 11thThe Fort Hamilton library will be re-opening for business on Monday March 28th at 10 am, with a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony April 11th at 11 am.
Brooklyn Tech Softball Team Starts Regular Season Games Tuesday March 22ndThe Brooklyn Tech girls varsity softball team appears strong, returning with 11 members of last year's division championship team. The season officially begins tomorrow when Brooklyn Tech hosts their division nemesis Boys and Girls School.
New Discount Store on 5th Ave Replaces Sonny's Bargain StoreThe New Discount Store at 7619 claims to have all the usual, essential items that a discount store needs, such as hardware, house wares, bathroom items, toys, school supplies, beauty supplies and party supplies.
Banneker Softball Team Starts Season Tomorrow, Tuesday March 22ndThe Benjamin Banneker Academy girls softball team play their first game of the season tomorrow as they host Clara Baton for a 4 pm home game.
Bacchus Bistro Announces "Dine in Brooklyn" Prix Fixe Menu for March 21st - 31stBoerum Hill's Bacchus Bistro recently published their contribution to "Dine in Brooklyn" week in the form of the lunch and dinner menus.
DOH Cites Naidre's Cafe with Unflattering B-lvl Report Only Months After Issuing A-grades TwiceNaidre's Caféhas hosted the DOH three times since the DOH began issuing letter grades back in July, and two of those three inspections resulted in A-grades. The most recent report from Friday did not, however.
Park Slope Art News: Last Call for "4 on the Verge" at 440 Gallery April 3rdOn February 24th 440 Gallery opened an invitational show called "4 on the Verge" featuring four young, talented artists, but the show closes in less than 2 weeks on April 3rd.
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Announces Summer Class Lineup for Adults and Kids, Registration Opens April 3rdIts almost summer time and the BBG is getting their summer class series for adults and children up and running.
DOH Closes Gigino Torrteria with 77 Violation Points Saturday, March 19thGigino Torrteria earned an A back in September, so it must have come as a surprise when the DOH closed Gigino with 77 points of health violations on Saturday.
Seven Stars Bakery Awarded with an a from DOHSeven Stars Bakery has a long history of stellar Department of Health reports but earned their first A-grade just this last week.
DOH Cites El Tio Pio with C-lvl Report After Issuing a C-grade in NovemberEl Tio Pio was issued a C back on November 5th after being cited with 54 violation points on the follow-up inspection to an 18 point report from October 20th. On Thursday they were sited with 30 violation points.
Tanoreen, Pearl Room and Other Bay Ridge Restaurants Join "Dine in Brooklyn" March 21st - 31stMany of Bay Ridge's best restaurants are participating in Dine in Brooklyn week, and here are the details.
Anopoli Family Restaurant Cited with B-lvl DOH Report After Earning C in NovemberThe DOH cited Anopoli Family Restaurant with 27 points worth of violations last Wednesday, March 16th.
Peppino's Hit with B-lvl DOH Report Following Stellar Report in OctoberPeppino's earned an A from the DOH back in October but yesterday were hit with a B-level 22 point report. We expect a follow-up inspection in coming weeks, along with a re-instated A.
Fort Hamilton HS Softball Starts Regular Season Games Tuesday Against Midwood at HomeThe Fort Hamilton High School softball team will getting their first chance to face an opponent this coming Tuesday, March 22nd when they host Midwood at 4 pm.
DUMBO Art News: Last Call for AIR Gallery Exhibit 9th Biennial March 27On March 2nd A.I.R. opened its 9th Biennial show featuring the works of 37 women from the US and abroad and it will be closing this Sunday, March 27th.
Benchmark Announces Fabulous Dine in Brooklyn Menus for March 21st to 31stBenchmark will be offering lunch and dinner all week and adding a 2-for-1 brunch on Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th as part of Dine in Brooklyn.
Beebo Announces Inspired Menu for Dine in Brooklyn, March 21st - 31stBay Ridge's new 3rd Ave seafood joint, Beebo, revealed fabuous lunch, brunch and dinner menus for the Dine in Brookyn week.
Asian Food Culture Restaurant Closed and Re-closed for 2nd Time in 6 MonthsIt may be an understatement to say that the Asian Food Culture restaurant has been struggling to meet the Department of Health's standards for the last several years.
Rose Water Reveals Extra-special Menu for "Dine in Brooklyn," March 21st - 31stPark Slope's Rose Water Restaurant published their 3-course Dine in Brooklyn menu recently and you'll likely need to make reservations soon if you would like to partake.
Telecom HS Softball Team Starts Playing Regular Season Games Monday March 21stTheTelecom girls will certainly be hoping to do what they did last year when they won their division with a spectacular 16 and 1 record.
DUMBO Art News: Last Call for "Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology..." March 27th"Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic," the exhibition of a single, massive installation piece by Janos Stone, will be closing March 27th.
DOH Closes Joe's Restaurant March 11th, Re-closes it March 15thJoe's Restaurant has been struggling to satisfy the DOH for over two years now and was recently closed following a March 11th report and then again on March 15th.
Two Bay Ridge Eateries Offering 2-for-1 "Dine in Brooklyn" 3-Course Dinner & Lunch, $25 March 21st - 31stAlmost 30 Bay Ridge eateries are participating in Dine In Brooklyn this year, and two of those are offering the 2-for-1 deal of $25 for two meals: Vesuvio and First Oasis.
DOH Gives Park Slope Restaurants Nothing but A's on Wednesday & ThursdayThree inspections and three A-grades for Park Slope restaurants in the last two days.
Arirang Hibachi Steakhouse Reveals Dine in Brooklyn Menu for March 21st to 31stArirang will be offering a special dinner menu for Dine in Brooklyn patrons and gave us the inside scoop.
Scholars Academy Basketball: Varsity Girls Play Championship Final Sunday!The 1st seed Scholars Academy high school varsity girls basketball team will be playing 2nd seed Bedford Academy for the championship title on Sunday, March 20th.
Longbow Now Refilling Growlers for $12Longbow Pub on third Ave is now selling growlers for $6 and refilling them for $12. Festivities are sure to ensue.
Sushi Yu Improves DOH Score to B-lvl After 43 Point March 2nd ReportThe DOH inspected Sushi Yu on Tuesday, citing the restaurant with 25 points.
Bedford Academy HS Basketball: Varsity Girls Move on to Championship Final on Sunday!This will certainly be one of the most exciting games in all the divisions in the city as the 1st and 2nd seed teams square off in a re-match of the only game either of these teams played which was actually close.
Greenhouse Cafe Announces Extensive Dine in Brooklyn Lunch and Dinner Menus for March 21st - 31stGreenhouse Café will be offering lunch and dinner menus for Dine in Brooklyn, March 21st to 31st.
Park Slope Wine Beat: Free Wine Tastings, Saturday March 19thIt Friday again and that means it's time to see what the Park Slope wine shops will be tasting on Saturday!
Medgar Evers HS Basketball: Varsity Boys Eliminated in Playoff Semi-finals by 1st SeedThe Medgar Evers Preparatory High School varsity boys basketball team lost the championship final by 3 points last night, eliminated by the 1st seed Frederick Douglas III Academy.
South Shore HS Basketball: JV Girls Play for City-wide Championship Tomorrow Night!The South Shore High School JV girls basketball team has progressed through the tournament bracket like a knife through warm butter and will be playing the 1st seed for the championship tomorrow night.
Bay Ridge Weekend Wine Beat: Wine Tastings at Long's, March 18th & 19thLong's Wine and Liquors will be tasting a number of whites and reds this weekend, from California all the way to southern France.
BAG Issues Call for Submissions for New Art Exhibit Called "One Foot in Each World."The Brooklyn Artists Gym announced a new call for submissions for a show which will be opening May 28th. Deadline for applications is April 13th.
Bookmark's March Book Club Meeting March 31st, Reading the ImperfectionistsThe March book club is scheduled for March 31st at 7:30 pm and the book to be discussed is Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists.
DOH Cites Salty Dog with C-lvl 48 Violation PointsSalty Dog was sited with points worth of sanitary violations on yesterday's DOH inspection report, which exceeds the cut off for the lowest possible grade by 20 points.
Bay Ridge Parking Relief in the Near Future?Community Board 10 is working on a number of parking issues in Bay Ridge which will hopefully be bearing fruit in the near future.
St Patrick's Day in Clinton Hill: Irish Music, Irish Libations and Irish Grub at MullanesMullanes Bar and Grill is going all-out this St. Patrick's day, with a full Irish Menu including drinks and desserts. Also free music!
Purity Restaurant Earns an "A" from DOH on First TryPurity Restaurant earned an A from the DOH on their very first inspection since the DOH began issueing letter graded back in July.
Fulton Thai Cited with B-lvl Inspection Report After Earning an "A" in DecemberFulton Thai was issued an A-grade back in September but scored a B-range 22 points last Friday. Expect another follow-up inspection in the near future.
Rockin' Raw is Rocked with Second B-lvl DOH Report Since Feb 17th, but Still No GradeWilliamsburg's Rockin' Raw has been inspected twice by the Department of Health since the DOH began issuing grades back in July, but has yet to earn a grade.
St. Patrick's Day in the Village Will Kick Your Butt (and Here's How)St. Patrick's Day in the village isn't for the faint of heart. Here are some of the special events and deals happening around the village to help make your Paddy's day the best ever.
Park Slope St. Patrick's Day Deals from 7th Ave BIDPark Slope's 7th Ave BID has a bunch of St. Patrick's day deals, from Beer to green kids clothing, with a bit of corned beef and cabbage in between.
Water Grill Bar and Restaurant Set to Re-open ThursdayWater Grill Bar & Restaurant will be re-opening after renovations tomorrow, St. Patrick's Day.
Two Toms Closed by DOH Last Wed, Likely to Remain Closed Through Weekend to Reopen TuesdayTwo Toms' tale of DOH woe started back on February 12th with a 24 point inspection and culminated last Wednesday March 9th with a 60 point inspection and closure. Two Toms remains closed, but will hopefully reopen on Tuesday.
Longbow Offering St Patrick's Day Dinner with Endless Corned Beef!Longbow is offering a special St Paddy's day dinner which includes Endless Corned Beef, Cabbage, Boiled Potatoes, and Carrots plus Soda Bread for $20.


text: Thursday night's July 3rd fireworks at Glen Oak Park didn't end the way they were supposed to. A delayed explosion from one of the firework shells sent it into the crowd near the park's ampitheater stage. Peoria Police say 12 people were treated at the scene for their injuries, and two people were sent to the hospital for burns. No one was seriously injured.

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Bryce Ginther and Kit Kineef have settled their lawsuit against a Conshohocken company that allegedly denied Kineef the health-care coverage he was entitlted to.
Ginther and Kineef were married in New York in May 2012, but Ginther's employer, ArcelorMittal USA, allegedly refused to enroll Kineef in the company's health plan as Ginther's spouse.
The men filed a federal lawsuit in February, alleging violations of federal law.
Tiffany L. Palmer, an attorney for Ginther and Kineef, said both men have voluntarily withdrawn their lawsuit.
"All I can say is the case has been resolved," Palmer told PGN.
ArcelorMittal spokesperson Mary Beth Holdford couldn't be reached for comment.
Notice of the settlement was filed with U.S. District Judge Thomas N. O'Neill Jr. on June 27.
Ginther works as an industrial electrician at ArcelorMittal's steel mill in Conshohocken, according to court records.
Sentencing changed for inmate assault
The sentencing of Kevin V. Hannig, who pleaded guilty to assaulting openly gay inmate Kenneth J. Houck Jr., has been moved up a week, from July 18 to July 11.
Hannig and Justin O'Brien assaulted Houck at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia in November 2011.
Houck was reading a gay novel inside his cell when the men pulled Houck from his bunk and stomped on him, breaking his leg, according to court records.
U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. will impose Hannig's sentence at 2 p.m. July 11 in Courtroom 14B of the U.S. Court House, 601 Market St.
Houck's projected release date is March 3, 2018, if he doesn't commit any infractions while in custody. Hannig, 35, is awaiting sentencing at the detention center.
In May, O'Brien was sentenced to 74 months in prison for Houck's assault and three unrelated bank roberries.
O'Brien, 26, is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Canaan Township.
— Timothy Cwiek Real-estate forum
Real-estate professionals and the LGBT community are invited to learn about navigating the real-estate world as an LGBT person from noon-1:30 p.m. July 10 at Burlington Camden County Association of Realtors' Real Estate Success Institute, 306 Kings Highway South, Cherry Hill, N.J.
Attendees will learn about estate planning and mortgaging concerns for LGBT buyers, best ways to source LGBT business, steps that LGBT couples should take to protect themselves when they purchase a home, legal and correct terminology for addressing LGBT individuals and much more.
Lunch will be provided. The event is $10 for non-BCCAR members.
For more information, call 856-428-1013.
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In regards to recent laws against them, how do people and how does the law define an "assisted opening knife"? Is it any blade with a hole or thumb stud, or other mechanisms as well?
In regards to recent laws against them, how do people and how does the law define an "assisted opening knife"? Is it any blade with a hole or thumb stud, or other mechanisms as well?
AO's came into being to take advantage of loopholes caused by the wording of most anti-switchblade legislation. Namely, the parts that require the blade release to on the handle and the energy storage device to be a spring. AO's release by starting the blade manually and/or use torsion bars for energy storage. AFAIK, most places that consider them illegal use the same basic definition as that used for switchblades, only with a bit looser wording that eliminates those loopholes.
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The main difference is that on the autos, the button actually locks the blade in the closed position until it is released, whereas with a SOG assisted knife, enough force "applied to the blade" (that's where the difference arises) overcomes the bias toward closure and allows the spring to take over.
In assisted openers made by other makers (Kershaw, Taylor Brands, etc) the "torsion bar" is not exerting pressure in the correct direction to open the blade when the blade is fully closed. Starting to open the blade changes those dynamics and the torsion bar takes over and propels the blade.
"A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a danish."
On an additional note, a few years ago US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to make it illegal to import assisted opening knives by having them declared automatic knives. Quick action by Knife Rights prevented this from happening. Knife Rights was able to prevent ICE's measure by having the federal switchblade ban amended. The switchblade ban contains a list of exceptions to the ban. This list was amended to state that any knife that requires force be applied to the blade to begin opening to not be allowed to be considered switchblades under the law.
"A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a danish."
"How is an "Assisted Opening Knife" defined? "
It is defined by the arresting officer and the judge at the trial.
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North Water Rescue Stirrup
An easy-to-attach assist for getting back into your kayak.
This stirrup quickly attaches to your sea or touring kayak to provide a helping step back up after you've capsized. For those who haven't yet learned to roll or fatigued paddlers, give yourself a helping step with this easy stirrup.
- COLOR: Yellow
- SIZE: Adjustable up to 14'
- Item #: NW 30SK-30A
- Manufacturer: North Water


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Life gets blurry. We are "overconnected" and distracted by so many influences. With iPhones, iPods, and Xbox there are so many distractions. It seems as though we really never stop and listen to the voice of God. He genuinely desires for His children to spend some time simply focusing on Him.
This 7-week devotional will help bring some things into focus…but it's up to you. It takes a few minutes every day, eliminating the distractions and focusing on Him. Lets get serious and desperate to establish and maintain our focus on The Lord.
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Former Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor announces she's running for election once again.
A source close to Taylor confirmed to KTUL.com early Wednesday that she will run for mayor in the next election.
Former city councilor Bill Christiansen has already announced plans for his candidacy. Current mayor Dewey Bartlett hasn't officially announced he'll run for a second term. A spokesperson for Bartlett confirmed Wednesday that he'll make a decision sometime next month.
Stay with KTUL.com throughout the day as we hear more from Kathy Taylor and why she made her decision.
Taylor was the 38th mayor of Tulsa serving one term from 2006-2009. She did not seek reelection and Bartlett was elected as her successor.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>
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Smoking rates continue to drop and have led to a decline in cancer death rates, but a sizable number of Canadians continue to light up.
In fact, some anti-smoking advocates are concerned about the rise in popularity of new ways to smoke among young adults.
Statistics on the number of smokers differ a bit depending on what source one uses. The Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey, a Statistics Canada study, puts the number of Canadian smokers somewhere around 17 per cent (or 4.7 million Canadians).
However, Neil Collishaw, research director for Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said the more extensive Canadian Community Health Survey, also administered by Statistics Canada, says that about 20 per cent of Canadians smoke (or six million people).
"Six million smokers ain't smoke free, so we got a ways to go," said Collishaw.
As to who is smoking these days, Collishaw said that the habit continues to be general right across all age groups, both sexes and all income classes.
But he said that some so-called vulnerable populations, a grouping that includes aboriginal people, lower-income and less-educated Canadians, seem to have a higher rate of smoking compared with the average.
"The thing is, none of their populations accounts for a whole lot of people," Collishaw said. He said in total, a lot more middle-income and middle-class people smoke than poor people. As well, more non-aboriginals smoke than aboriginals.
Still, all of the surveys show that smoking rates are down in all the demographic groups.
According to the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey, 17 per cent of Canadians aged 15 and over smoke. That's down from 25 per cent of Canadians in that age range who smoked in 1999.
Broken down by gender, 20 per cent of all men and 14 per cent of all women currently smoke. Back in 1999, 27 percent of all males and 23 per cent of all females smoked.
As an indicator of how far rates have dropped, in 1965, 61 per cent of men and 38 per cent of women smoked.
Despite the notion that smoking may be more prevalent among certain demographics, the survey reveals that smoking rates don't differ all that much among some age groups and sexes.
Around 22 per cent of those aged 20-24 smoke, the survey found. The survey also found that 21 per cent of 25-34 year olds smoke, followed by 20 per cent of 35- to 44-year-olds and 19 per cent of those aged 45-54.
The smoking rates drop in the lowest and highest age ranges. Around 12 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds smoke and 11 per cent of those 55-years of age and older smoke.
There's virtually no difference in smoking rates among youth males and females (aged 15-19). But about 20 per cent of all men aged 25 and over smoke, compared to 13 per cent for women.
Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst at the Canadian Cancer Society, said his concern is with the rise in popularity of flavoured little cigars and water pipes among young adults.
"Among the youth and young adults, these two product categories have really taken off, even though a decade ago it was essentially non-existent," he said.
He added that while new legislation banned the sale of the small cigars, the tobacco industry changed the size of the products slightly and removed the filters to comply with the new law.
Cunningham said the smoking of water pipes, which are also known as hookahs and shishas, is also "taking off among youth."
He said statistics on this are sparse but that, anecdotally, it appears that the use of water pipes appears to be growing. In one study of Montreal-area youth, 23 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds had smoked water pipes in the previous year, he said.
"That's enormous for something that most adults have never heard of. But the indications are that it's spreading across Canada." Some restaurants and cafes are offering it to their customers, Cunningham said.
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U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere [Part V: Lessons]
Part 1 of this series explored the historical context of the U.S. nuclear waste storage policy. Part II and Part III looked at the failed Salt Vault and Yucca Mountain projects, respectively. Part IV reviewed the legal and political fallout from the Yucca Mountain failure. In this final post, we review the past failed attempts to reprocess nuclear fuel in the U.S. and examine the global state-of-the-art reprocessing plants now operating or under construction.
Reprocessing and Recycling in the U.S.
The reprocessing of nuclear fuel first began in the U.S. in January 1943. The Bismuth Phosphate Precipitation Process was used for recovering macroscopic quantities of plutonium. The REDuction-OXidation (REDOX) process was the first successful solvent extraction process to recover both uranium and plutonium; it was further refined into the Plutonium and URanium EXtraction (PUREX) process, which has become the most common and fully commercialized liquid-liquid extraction process for the treatment of spent nuclear fuel (SNF).
In order to support a self-sufficient commercial nuclear power industry in the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC, circa 1946 to 1974)—the predecessor regulatory agency to the NRC (1974 to present) and the Department of Energy (circa 1977 to present)—encouraged the transfer of nuclear fuel reprocessing from the federal government to private industry. The three privately owned reprocessing plants constructed were the Western New York Nuclear Service Center (West Valley, N.Y.), Midwest Fuel Recovery Plant (Morris, Ill.), and the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant (Barnwell, S.C.). [Read more →]
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U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere [Part IV: Picking Up the Pieces]
Part I of this series reviewed the historical context of the U.S. nuclear waste storage policy. Part II and Part III historically reviewed the ill-fated Salt Vault and Yucca Mountain projects, respectively. This post reviews the legal and political fallout from the Yucca Mountain failure, and Part V tomorrow will explore failed attempts to reprocess nuclear fuel in the U.S. and examine the global state-of-the-art reprocessing plants now operating or under construction.
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1. View of the above-ground support structures and north and south portals at the now-defunct Yucca Mountain repository. Source: Department of Energy/Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (DOE/OCRWM)
The nuclear industry is unique among energy producers in its contractual commitment to cover the full costs for managing its waste. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982 directed utilities to levy fees on electricity generated by nuclear power and to pay those fees into a federal Nuclear Waste Fund (NWF) that was to be used to develop and operate a national repository. In return for the payment of fees, the NWPA directed the federal government to accept ownership and begin disposing of the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other high-level waste (HLW) no later than January 31, 1998. Those fees included the cost of transporting SNF to the repository.
Since 1983, consumers of electricity from nuclear power plants have paid approximately $32 billion into the NWF. Consumers in Alabama and Georgia, for example, have sent more than $1 billion to the NWF and continue to contribute over $44 million a year. The current balance in the NWF exceeds approximately $22 billion, and consumers nationwide are contributing about an additional $750 million a year. The difference between total collections and the current balance is roughly equal to the approximately $9 billion already spent on preparing the Yucca Mountain site to date. [Read more →]
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The U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere [Part III: Yucca Mountain]
Part I explored the historical context of the U.S. nuclear waste storage policy, while Part II reviewed the 1960s Salt Vault project.
This post looks at the legislative history of the ill-fated Yucca Mountain repository and the formation of a committee to explore alternative storage sites (again). In Part IV, we will look at some of the legal and political repercussions of Yucca Mountain's failure. Finally, in Part V, we explore failed attempts to reprocess nuclear fuel in the U.S. and examine the global state-of-the-art reprocessing plants now operating or under construction.
The Retrievable Surface Storage Facility
The AEC announced plans (circa May/June 1972) to construct an engineered, at-grade Retrievable Surface Storage Facility (RSSF) to be used until a permanent geological repository would be available. The plan was to locate the RSSF at an AEC or federal site in the western U.S. However, the environmental impact statement (EIS) issued by the AEC in support of the RSSF concept drew intense criticism from the public and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Both criticized the plan because of the possibility that economic factors could later dictate using the facility as a permanent repository, contrary to the planned interim use of the RSSF. In this instance, it was unacceptable to proceed with an interim storage system unless there were unambiguous assurances that a permanent repository would be developed.
In 1975, Dr. Robert Seamans—in one of his first acts as administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)—withdrew the EIS associated with the RSSF and decided that a permanent waste repository should be given budget priority. ERDA was created to assume the responsibilities of the then-dissolved AEC that were not covered by the newly formed NRC. [Read more →]
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U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere [Part II: Project Salt Vault]
Part I in this series reviewed the history of nuclear waste storage policy in the United States. This post reviews Project Salt Vault, an early attempt to solve the dilemma of storing spent nuclear fuel. Part III will cover the history of Yucca Mountain.
Project Salt Vault
The primary objective of Project Salt Vault was to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of handling and storing high level nuclear waste (HLW) solids from power reactors in salt formations. The engineering and scientific objectives were to:
· Demonstrate waste-handling equipment and techniques required to handle packages containing HLW solids from the point of production to the disposal location.
· Determine the stability of salt formations under the combined effects of heat and radiation (approximately 4,000,000 curies of radioactive material, yielding up to 109 rads).
· Collect information on creep and plastic flow of salt needed for the design of an actual disposal facility.
· Monitor the site for radiolytic chemical reactions, if such should occur.
The demonstration site selected was the inactive Lyons, Kansas mine of the Carey Salt Co. The 1,020-foot deep salt mine had operated from 1890 to 1948 and had been kept open for possible future use. Preparations for the demonstration began in 1963, and the first radioactive material was placed in the mine in November 1965. The tests involved the emplacement of actual irradiated fuel assemblies from the Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) in Idaho. The ETR assemblies were chosen because of their availability on a dependable schedule and their relatively high radioactivity levels. [Read more →]
July 9, 2010 9 Comments
U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere [Part I: Historical Context]
In addition to building nuclear power plants, a robust nuclear energy infrastructure requires a means to store and recycle spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other high level nuclear waste (HLW) products.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and Amendments of 1987 established a national policy and schedule for developing geologic repositories for the disposal of SNF and HLW. Those deadlines have come and gone; the cancellation of Yucca Mountain was only the latest failed attempt to make this policy a reality.
Nuclear fuel reprocessing traces its roots to work started in 1943 but the development work was suspended in the mid-1970s after several failed projects. The task of finding a new long-term storage location has now been assigned to yet another committee and SNF reprocessing remains in limbo in the U.S. while other nations are building modern reprocessing facilities.
Are developing a coherent nuclear fuel policy and following through on the plan impossible tasks?
In Part I of this series, we examine the historical context of the U.S. nuclear waste storage policy. In Parts II and III, we will look at the history of the ill-fated Salt Vault and Yucca Mountain projects. Part IV will look at the legal and political fallout from the Yucca Mountain failure, and Part V will explore failed attempts to reprocess nuclear fuel in the U.S. and examine the global state-of-the-art reprocessing plants now operating or under construction.
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) two-paragraph March 3 press release describing its motion to withdraw its pending license application for Yucca Mountain was an indecent obituary for the disposal site's brief 23-year life and $8 billion cost. The relatively short history of nuclear power in the U.S. reminds us that the Yucca Mountain project may have been doomed from the start. A number of permanent nuclear waste storage site projects have been cancelled over the past 45 years, although Yucca Mountain was exponentially the most expensive failure. History also tells us that political considerations will always trump technology when it comes to siting a nuclear waste repository. [Read more →]
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For a small business in today's economy, one of the most crucial keys to success is knowing what your competition is up to at all times. If you don't think your competitors are out to eat your lunch, you're not going to be around very long. And in today's global market, competition can come from new and unexpected places and can pop up at any moment. How do you stay on top of it all?
Start by compiling a list of your competitors. Assess all the markets where you sell (local, regional, national, global and online) and which competitors exist in each of them. You need to know what your competitors are doing and be able to answer these questions about them:
· Where are they? Local, nationwide, global? Brick-and-mortar only or ecommerce?
· How big are they? Are your competitors small businesses, regional chains or huge multinationals?
· How do they sell? Do they sell direct, to wholesalers, through reps?
· Business model:What do they make their money from?
· How do they price? How much do they charge and do they offer different pricing structures, such as bundling options? Do they discount?
· How profitable are they?How do their profit margins compare to the industry average?
· What's their branding and marketing strategy? Can you define their brand in a single sentence? What avenues do they use to market?
· How are they staffed?Do your competitors have full-time or part-time employees? Or are they virtual or outsourcers?
· What's their overhead?Do they have high or low overhead costs?
It's easier than it used to be to gain this kind of information, but it still requires some time and effort. Here's where you can find the facts:
· Your industry or trade association won't tell you details about specific companies, but they're a good place to gather benchmarks and averages for your industry.
· Regularly read trade magazines, blogs and websites relevant to your industry and your competition to keep up with news about their plans.
· Go online and search your competitors; set up a Google Alert on their businesses or product names to get the scoop whenever they make a move.
· Get social by signing up for their email newsletters and watching their Facebook or Twitter accounts. These days, many companies announce new products or services, or survey customers about planned initiatives, using social media, so this can be a good insight into future plans.
· Contacting their customers can work well for a B-to-B company. They'll often be quite honest with you about what they like and dislike about the company, and may give you insights into how to compete.
· If you know the competitors' suppliers or have a relationship with them yourself, suppliers can also be a great source of information.
Once you've got the information, don't just sit there—do something with it. Assess where your competition is weak and how you can turn their weaknesses into opportunity for your company.
Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a media company that helps entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Follow Rieva at Twitter.com/Rievaand visit her blog at SmallBizDaily.com. Visit her website SmallBizTrendCastto get the scoop on business trends and sign up for Rieva's free Trendcast reports.
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Role of the Breast Cancer Cell 2 (BRCC2) Tumor Suppressor Gene in Early-Onset Breast Cancer
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Background: Breast cancer cell 2 (BRCC2) is an intronless gene localized on 11q24.1. LOH at 11q24.1q25 has been associated with early-onset breast cancer, and poor prognosis of breast and ovarian neoplasias. BRCC2 expression has a negative impact on cell survival and correlates with caspase activation, chromatin condensation and DNA fragmentation, hallmarks of apoptosis. Translocation of endogenous BRCC2 to the mitochondria is increased in response to doxorubicin and hydrogen peroxide, known cytotoxic agents. Objective/Hypothesis: To investigate the hypothesis that BRCC2 is a new and important early-onset breast cancer tumor suppressor gene (TSG). Given BRCC2's abilities to regulate apoptosis, our study could significantly increase our understanding of the molecular regulation of apoptosis and survival in breast cancer cells. Specific Aims: To test the hypothesis that BRCC2 is a putative early-onset breast cancer TSG located at 11q24.1, we will determine the frequency of BRCC2 gene inactivation pathways, i.e., mutational spectra and LOH in breast tumors of women with early-onset breast cancer and determine the correlation between loss of function of BRCC2 and overall survival (OS) (Aim 1), and we will develop and validate a FISH assay and an Immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay to evaluate the BRCC2 gene copy number changes and to examine the BRCC2 protein expression, respectively, in breast tissues (Aim 2). Study Design: We will evaluate 80 patients with early-onset sporadic breast cancer (women under 40 years of age at diagnosis) compared to 80 patients with late-onset breast cancer (post-menopausal women over 55 years of age at diagnosis) matched for stage and ER/PR status, and with known clinical follow up/outcome data. In Aim 1: We will isolate tumor and normal tissues using Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM), and use the isolated DNA for sequencing and LOH studies; we will also study the correlation between loss of function of BRCC2 and overall survival (OS). In Aim 2: we will develop and test a FISH probe using BAC clones containing the BRCC2 gene (FISH studies) and IgG polyclonal antibody and a monoclonal antibody against the BRCC2-epitope (IHC studies). Potential Outcomes and Benefits of the Research: This study will provide a better understanding of the role of BRCC2 as a TSG in early-onset breast cancer and will improve our understanding of the mechanisms of breast cancer formation.
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Background: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, and the most common malignancy diagnosed among women in the United States. Early-onset breast cancer in women under 40 exhibits a more aggressive clinical picture as compared to late-onset disease of the same size and nodal status. A recently discovered gene, called "the breast cancer cell 2" (BRCC2) plays an important role in the process of cell death, and therefore in preventing abnormal cells from developing into cancer. This gene is located on chromosome number 11, in a region of that chromosome which was reported in many previous studies to be commonly lost in early-onset breast cancer. Objective/Hypothesis: Based on the above, we are proposing to investigate whether this new gene, the BRCC2, is indeed one of the important genes that are lost in early-onset breast cancer and whether its loss correlates with poor prognosis. Specific Aims: We have only one focused objective, i.e. to test the hypothesis that BRCC2 is a putative early-onset breast cancer tumor suppressor gene. To achieve this objective, we will determine the frequency of BRCC2 gene inactivation pathways in breast tumors of women with early-onset breast cancer and determine the correlation between loss of function of BRCC2 and overall survival (Aim 1), and we will develop and validate molecular tests to evaluate breast tissues for possible loss of this gene (Aim 2). Study Design: We will perform different molecular studies to establish the loss of function of this gene and we will also develop diagnostic reagents which will help us address this critical question. These reagents may also be clinically very relevant because they can be used to evaluate clinical specimens as well. All the assays that we are proposing to perform are well established in our laboratories and we have published several papers using similar assays. Potential Outcomes and Benefits of the Research: We believe that our data will provide a better understanding of the role of BRCC2 as an important gene that suppresses the development of tumors in early-onset breast cancer and will improve our understanding of the mechanisms of breast cancer formation at a young age.
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Definitions of REALIZING in dictionaries:
- verb - be fully aware or cognizant of
- verb - perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- verb - make real or concrete
- verb - earn on some commercial or business transaction
- verb - convert into cash
- verb - expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
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I thought this diary could be a catch all for people getting together for this weekend's games.
I have an extra ticket for Friday's game. Chandrathan and Ash have expressed interest, so I'll give them first crack at it, but if not any of you wonderful people are welcome to help me hang Homer donuts. It's $30 (5 over face, which I thought was pretty good). Section 434 row A. We can get their early to get our Bronson hair-hats and see Homer warm up.


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If you're starting to get bored by dinner, Cooking columnist Sybil Pratt recommends The Dinnertime Survival Cookbook by Debra Ponzek, "to shake things up, and get you out of that rut and into adding new, easy dishes to your repertoire." For those of us who cook dinner every night, this book's a life-changer.
Goat Cheese, Pear, and Prosciutto Strata
A strata as rich and full-flavored as this earns its stripes on the dinner table when paired with a crisp arugula or frisée salad and a glass of wine. I especially like it in the fall and winter when pears are in the markets. If you don't like goat cheese, substitute mozzarella; if you don't have prosciutto, use ham. This can be assembled early in the day and popped in the oven when you get home. Serve the leftovers the next morning for breakfast, and if you're looking for something to make for brunch, look no further.
Serves 8 to 10
- 1 pound sliced white bread (about 12 slices)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 ripe pears, cored and cut into ½-inch dice
- 8 large eggs
- 4 cups whole or low-fat milk
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 6 ounces prosciutto, sliced
- 6 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
Lightly spray a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with flavorless vegetable spray. Cut the bread into 1-inch cubes and spread nearly half over the bottom of the pan. Reserve the remaining bread cubes.
In a medium sauté pan, heat the butter over medium heat and when it melts and bubbles, add the pears and sauté for 5 to 6 minutes or until they soften and begin to caramelize. Remove from the heat and set aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, mustard, thyme, and salt. Season with pepper.
Spread half of the prosciutto, half the cheese, and half the pears over the bread. Spread the remaining bread cubes over these ingredients and then top evenly with the remaining prosciutto, cheese, and pears.
Pour the egg mixture over the strata and press lightly on the bread to submerge it in the liquid so that it soaks evenly. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 12 hours or overnight.
Take the strata from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Remove the plastic wrap and bake the strata for 45 to 50 minutes or until the center is set and no longer wobbly. Serve warm.


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Chargers team doctor David Chao was recently cleared by an independent panel, but the NFL Players association still has concerns about his role with the team, according to the Associated Press. The NFLPA had asked San Diego to replace Chao due to his past charges of negligence and malpractice.
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Despite Chao's exoneration, NFLPA executive director Maurice Smith isn't convinced the Chargers' doctor deserves to keep his job:
"The fact is that despite having previous malpractice liability judgments against him, neither the Chargers nor the NFL initiated an inquiry or provided any oversight of the doctor the team selected to provide care for our players," Smith said in a statement. "This Article 50 and any subsequent investigations will be initiated when there is credible evidence that calls into question the treatment given to a player and the overall medical care being provided by team selected doctors."
The California medical board sought to revoke Chao's license in 2012, claiming to have evidence that he committed gross negligence on multiple occasions. In 2006, he was defeated in a medical fraud suit that stemmed from his mishandling of a patient in 2003. Chao lost the suit and, the plaintiff was awarded $7.5 million in damages.
Two years ago, Chao was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration for writing 108 prescriptions to himself, a violation of of controlled-substance regulations. He was cleared after an attorney for the pharmaceutical company that filled the prescriptions said they were for the Chargers.
"The NFLPA will take every step to hold the NFL and its member clubs accountable to provide the care that they are mandated to provide," Smith said in the statement. "Dr. Chao's previous medical liability issues only increases our desire to engage in a thorough and comprehensive credentialing process to determine which physicians are providing care to our players and how they were selected by the teams."


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Currently ranked No.2 in the AVCA Division II volleyball poll. The Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs, are off to yet another great start in 2012.
"We are off to a great start this season, one of the best in team history," senior outside hitter Devin Diedrich said. "It's a great testament to what we are doing on the court."
At 16-1 overall and 8-1 in the Northern Sun Conference, the stangs have been nearly unstoppable on the court. Thanks in part, to a trio of seniors above the net, in AVCA All- American's Mary Groth & Brooke Burmeister and emerging talent Devin Diedrich. All three ranking in the top six in all-time kills.
"We have three tremendous seniors on this team and a veteran labero in Rachel Westby," ninth-year coach Terry Culhane said. "They are great leaders and really have set the tone for what we are doing."
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Posted on Tuesday, July 3 @ 11:43:28 Eastern by Nicholas Tan
The Resident Evil 6 is now available exclusive for Xbox LIVE to those who own Dragon's Dogma. Wait, I own that! Yay for me!
The demo features three character snippets from the three different storylines in Resident Evil 6 that take place in North America, Europe, and China. Each campaign will have specific missions that tie in with one other.
Leon S. Kennedy, with partner Helena Harper, must fight back the zombies that have popped up on the Ivy University campus. Chris Redfield partners with BSAA Piers Nivans to take out "the deadly J'avo" on the rooftops of Lanshiang, China. New protagonist Jake Muller joins forces with Sherry Berkin to survive the pursuit of a gargantuan bio-organic weapon named Ustanak in a war-torn Edonia.
Resident Evil 6 releases October 2, 2012 on Xbox 360 and PS3, with a PC version to follow. You can read Anthony's E3 preview for Resident Evil 6 here.
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Concentrated boulders that sit below Elk Slabs on the south side of Charons Garden Wilderness area. More info coming soon.
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Park at the Treasure Lake parking lot on the south side of Charons Garden area. Elk slabs are visible from the parking lot, begin hiking in general direction until reaching a creek. Split slightly right across creek bringing very close to Post Oak Falls. Continue towards elk slabs in drainage until you reach a large boulder on the left side of the Trail. This is the first boulder in the Wapiti Bouldering area, with the best boulder in the area a one minute hike continuing on the trail.
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Ya gotta see this video of a Georgia player hurdling another defensive player in a college game this weekend. It reminds me of Joe Kapp in the 1969 Vikings-Rams game. Kapp was running down the sidelines when Richie Petibone tried to tackle him low. Kapp hurdled Petibone, barely breaking stride and continued running down the sideline.The play was simply amazing and I'll never forget it. The NFL later passed a no hurdle rule after that season.Kentucky Vikes Fan
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That was sweet! The video in the link didn't work so I went on youtube. It almost looks like he did a split over the guy from one angle.
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Although a particularly vulnerable block of downtown Hellertown's business district was figuratively smacked by Hurricane Irene, the damage inflicted by the storm "could have been a lot worse," Borough Council President Philip Weber said Sunday afternoon.
Weber, who was assisting other Dewey Fire Company volunteers with clean-up efforts in the 600 block of Main Street, pointed to businesses in that block that were briefly inundated when the Silver Creek--which passes underneath Main Street on its way to the Saucon Creek--turned into a raging torrent overnight.
Among the businesses affected by flood waters were Saucon Valley Dance Conservatory, Revere Flooring, Klassic Gold, and the newly-opened Erica's Cafe at 637 Main Street.
The building that houses Erica's Cafe was also seriously damaged when flood waters inundated that block of Main in September 2004.
One business owner's macadam parking lot was completely washed away in the flash flood, and along Water Street other businesses also took on water.
By early afternoon Sunday, however, Main Street had reopened and traffic was once again flowing freely along the north-south corridor--which Weber said was in marked contrast to seven years ago, when the remnants of Hurricane Ivan wreaked havoc in the Saucon Valley.
After Ivan dumped upwards of eight inches of rain in one night, Main Street was closed for a full day and the 600 block was covered in mud, Weber said.
Weber credited the Hellertown Public Works Department--under the direction of Tom Henshaw--with preparing for the storm before its full fury was unleashed.
He also acknowledged Borough Manager Cathy Kichline for having had the foresight to move records and other items stored in the basement of Borough Hall upstairs, before the storm arrived.
In fact, the basement of Borough Hall did become water-logged and a sump pump had to be used to drain it.
In anticipation of what turned out to be an eventful and memorable evening, Weber said Dewey volunteers gathered for a game of Monopoly at the fire house Saturday evening, before calls started rolling in as the storm intensified.
By early Sunday afternoon, he estimated that the company had responded to "at least 40 calls" that included several rescues--including one at the Front Street Apartments--and reports of gas leaks.
Weber said the Dewey Fire Company volunteers deserve much credit for their tireless efforts to keep up with the calls that came quickly throughout the night, as high winds and torrential rain buffeted the area and many basements began to flood.
No injuries in Hellertown were reported as a result of the storm, Weber said.
Tracked down at home, Hellertown Mayor Richard Fluck agreed that the affects of the hurricane could have been more catastrophic for Hellertown, but said he was concerned about the number of trees that had fallen. With high winds continuing to blow, the potential for ongoing damage from falling tree limbs remained high.
The most serious tree-related damage appeared to have occurred on Cedar Road in the Mountainview section, where a massive tree was uprooted and fell directly onto a single-family home.
Power outages throughout Hellertown were periodic throughout the day Sunday, with the north end of town losing power early but seeing it restored by around lunchtime. Many homes in the Mountainview section also lost power, as did some businesses at the south end of town, including the Hellertown Diner and the Shoppes at Hellertown along Main Street.
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You might have this silly column shoved into your Twitter feed today. Ian Mendes fails to mention that only the 1999 Buffalo Sabres and 1996 Detroit Red Wings were the favoured teams after their Game 7 OT wins. Much of those teams ('97 Oilers, '95 Sharks) were also bad hockey teams that fluked their way to Round One victories. I bring this to your attention because Sportsnet is chock full of people who attempt to pass off fun facts as statistics. Mendes could have just as easily gone the alternate route and brought up just as useless a factoid: In every series involving the Vancouver Canucks that has ended with a 7th Game Overtime, the winner of that series went on to play in the Stanley Cup Finals. In essence, the thing doesn't mean a damn, and whether the Canucks win or lose tonight does not hinge on momentum carry over from Game Seven.


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Maria Rufina (Ruby) Benavides, 70 of Bridgeport, NE passed away peacefully Saturday, June 08, 2013 at Chimney Rock Villa.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at All Soul's Catholic Church in Bridgeport with Fr. Dave Rykwalder officiating. Interment will follow at Oregon Trail Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Bridgeport Memorial Chapel. A vigil/rosary service will be Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be given to the family to be designated to a charitable organization Maria would have chosen at a later date. Tributes of sympathy may be left at www.bbchapels.com.
Maria was born February 11, 1943 in Victoria, Texas. She lived in Slaton, Texas until 1973, moving to Bridgeport where she resided until her death.
She is survived by her sons, Andy (Carmen) Benavides of Bridgeport, NE and Gary Benavides of Corpus Christi, Texas and daughter Judy Dempcy (Casey) of Sterling, CO; step daughter, Sandra Benavides of Scottsbluff; grandchildren: Trevor Benavides, Karissa Benavides, Casey Benavides, Piper Benavides, Savanah Ferguson and Zackary Pesall; step grandchildren: Lisa Benavides and Anthony Benavides, Vinant and Francis Dempcy and 5 step great grandchildren. She also is survived by her brother, Alfonso Solis of Slaton, TX and sisters Rita Garcia and Louisa Ruiz both of Slaton, TX and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement Executive Director Jacob Moody recently accepted this year's Community Boards Leadership Peacemaker Award on behalf of the over 40-year-old organization, which provides tailored, comprehensive support for at-risk youth in Bayview Hunters Point. The award was presented by Community Boards Executive Director Darlene Weide at the fourth annual Peacemaker Awards luncheon.
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More and more political leaders are speaking out as dozens of California prisoners complete six weeks of a hunger strike and others are working behind the scenes to urge Gov. Brown to negotiate before more men die. It shouldn't take a hunger strike to bring an end to the current over-reliance on the use of solitary confinement in California prisons.
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A sea of overwhelming opposition in cities from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles has risen against San Mateo Assemblymember Jerry Hill and his anti-local hiring measure, Assembly Bill 356, which threatens state funding for any California city with a local hiring policy.
March 7, 2011
A crowd of over 200 community advocates, elected officials, labor leaders, community contractors and City department heads came together on Feb. 23 to celebrate the passage of the historic local hiring ordinance.
February 11, 2011
Assemblymember Hill today unveiled legislation that attacks local hiring by banning state-funded construction in any city with a local hiring law, even shutting down Bay Area projects that residents of his own district work on.
January 5, 2010
At the close of 2008 and throughout 2009, Americans watched our federal government reward the reckless multinational financial sector with trillions of dollars for causing the worst hardship since the Great Depression. San Franciscans and Californians joined in the agony but few understood that both San Francisco and California have come up with their own bailout for one of the major players in the meltdown, the South Florida based Lennar Corp.
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As San Francisco grapples with a looming budget crisis, Public Defender Jeff Adachi is seeking $2 million in state reimbursement to the City for its defense of eight men charged in a 1971 homicide case involving a police officer. The city's right to reimbursement is based on the fact that the California Attorney General took on the 36-year-old case after the San Francisco District Attorney's office declined to prosecute.
October 14, 2009
Outraged Bayview residents armed with signs that read "Bayview Not for Sale," "Parks for the People," and "Governor, Veto SB 792 – Save Candlestick Park" entered Sen. Mark Leno's San Francisco district office on Friday, Oct. 9, and erected a cardboard condominium tower topped with a sign that read "Leno: Do you miss your office? We'll sure miss our park."
September 11, 2009
On Thursday, Sept. 3, at their weekly town hall meeting, the leaders of SLAM (Stop Lennar Action Movement) reminded the audience of the kind of power they have in the battle to save Bayview Hunters Point. Minister Christopher Muhammad, Archbishop Franzo King and Francisco Da Costa shared the latest news of SLAM's progress and urged the audience to understand that by staying focused and vigilant and not letting anything turn them around, they will win the war.
August 28, 2009
In their fight against the push to privatize their state park, Bayview Hunters Point activists are fighting the privatization of California as hard as anyone I know. They're fighting for all of us, so I hope that other Californians who don't want to see the whole state on the auction block will contact their Assembly representatives and ask them to vote against Senate Bill 792.
May 30, 2009
Sen. Mark Leno's Senate Bill 792 would give clean parkland at Candlestick Point to Lennar and replace it with toxic land. Lennar, the "toxic dust developer," plans to build 10,000 luxury condos at the Hunters Point Shipyard. This toxic trade bill is now in the California Assembly, so calls opposing SB 792 should be made immediately to Fiona Ma, (916) 319-2012, and Tom Ammiano, (916) 319-2013.


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Special teams has been a key part of Everett's success and it continued tonight as Jaleel Canty takes the punt and he's off to the house. All the way back for yet another Everett return for a TD. Vikings up by 12.
Vikings keep the pedal to the medal in the 4th as Alec Cambric powers his way into the endzone from 16 yards out extending the lead to 24.
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Just wondering if I'm the only one who gets annoyed at sci fi design these days, especially designs of robots and armoured suit type things.
When I was a kid I would look at Warhammer 40k space marine miniatures and try to image the human being inside. The guy had to be at least 10 heads tall. I can deal with that one, it says in the fluff that these guys are superhuman and huge. But then comes the question of proportion. To fit into the suit you had to have 5 head wide shoulders, a tiny waist and enormous legs. Another example of this is the battle suit from Starcraft 2, see example attached.
Another point i wanted to make are the bipedal walker robots. There is a reason we don't make them in real life! And this reason is because they fall over. I just imagine someone coming up to one of these mechs and throwing a stone in their center of gravity. Unless they have some really really advanced AI, the three points of contact thing will not happen and they will topple.
Anyway, that's just some of my thoughts on the topic. What do you think?
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It depends. If I'm expecting the thing to work in real life, then stuff like that would bother me, but if it's something like Warhammer 4K then I'll say whatever (I'm pretty sure even the creators are aware how ridiculous the suits are) as long as it invokes at least the Rule of Cool.
I mean there's a lot of things that just wouldn't work in real life (there's a reason why there still aren't even quadrupedal robots in actual use, let alone bipedal), but that's partly why at least I want to see them in fiction.
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Keep in mind there are many different "subgenres" in sci-fi. They usually have different level attention to technological realism and most of the time it's intentional. For example space opera or science fantasy (like wh40k) usually have less functional design than near-future or hard sci-fi.
Unfortunately hard sci-fi appears less in games and movies for many reasons.
I love the rule of cool. Thinks gyros, hydraulics etc. but really sophisticated. Avatar did an interesting suit. If you would have drawn someone 100 years ago listening to music on something the size of large postage stamp people would have written this same kind of thing in a CA newspaper discussion group.
The rule of cool is a very, very cool rule. It's like Feng Zhu said in one of his tutorials, that it doesn't matter what you draw, as long as it looks cool.
I tend to agree with you TinyBird, but things like that still annoy me. I'm sure all of us watched a sci fi film and shouted at the screen, "That would never work!!!". Or maybe I'm just a nutter who shouts at his TV
And just as an aside, four legged walkers do exist and are feasible. Prime, and the only, example being DOG used by the US military right now. It's a great design and is a basis of all my artistic endeavours.
I guess good design has to combine some "cool" and some functionality in equal dosage.
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For me it has to A) Look cool...and A) look reasonably functional. And vice-versa. To me funtional is cool. I can't think of a single cool sci-fi design that also doesn't look reasonably well designed and thought out.
Now "cool" can sometimes be clunky or campy or retro or any number of things. When I design things I always think to myself, "Would Syd dig this?"...that helps keep me on track.
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How do they fit in the suit? The obvious solution is that they simply amputate all four major limbs and replace them with extendable bendy robot arms.
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Anybody else think all of those designs are boring. It's okay if they are genuinely going for irreverent, fun and whimsical, but they're usually not. They are typically Liefeild-esque.
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most functionality even on todays real world machines is unseen or done by black boxes of electronics. and i can imagine future machines would be totally incomprehensible to us.
so your entertainment design has to show what the thing does. guns have to look shooty, rockets zoomy, robots really robotic (as opposed to sleek, bafflingly complex biologically sophisticated ur-machines, for example). its because makers of entertainment products need children and imbeciles to understand whats going on so they keep buying them.
if you want properly interesting speculative industrial design, read a hard sci fi book.
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By "all of those" I mean to say the design by committee look. For example 9/10 space marines look alike and share the same nonfunctional features. In general it's like they are working from a template and frankenstein successful designs.
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When people talk about functionality in terms of "Oh well that wouldn't be able to support that weight" or anything where they try to bring our reality into a fictional world. That's when I get annoyed. Besides that, who cares as long as it's functional 'enough'.
Some robots are more flashy than others. I like to think of it in terms of "Who the fuck knows how people would build their robots". People deck out their cars with unfunctional crap just to make it 'look cool' if people could build giant robots many would do the same.
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Of course even with this there different level of this depending on the corporation etc, but when you're doing concepts and designs and your boss comes in and says "we want this design to be immediately recognizable as a space marine and we want to attract the same buyers as those who play Generic Space Marine Game X2000 so that we don't take too much of a risk", well...
Reminds me of the "video game industry does not exist to be creative, it exists to sell products at WalMart" quote.
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As for what else was said, yeah, quadrapeds are already in development. I mentioned DOG and Max posted a video of it. Personally, I think it looks very functional, but not very cool. Whereas if you added fancy bits and electronics on top of it, it would look functional AND cool.
Hah, and you would be surprised how seriously Warhammer 40k artists take their fictional universe. I know, I drink beer with one once in a while
By the way, speaking of hard sci-fi. Check out Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It's one of my favourite sci-fi books and reflects, in a sort of a giant metaphor, with his experiences in Vietnam. Also, the science is pretty solid, the author being a physicist.
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Tiny Bird-on the money. But that doesn't mean we have to like it. Besides, they are shrinking their base by using the "me too" tactic. I know allot of people that quit playing video games because of that.
So I'm going to talk about awesome functional designs. Awesome designs Rule!
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That gives me an idea for an art blog - "Functional Designs". It'll be on par with the Women Fighters in Reasonable Armour blog
EDIT: In faaaaact. This gives me an idea for my Honours project!!
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The Big Dog does remind me of that one Crit thread that went sour where the Op was trying to design a cheetah robot that you could ride but which would run like a real cheetah, and I could only wonder why the hell would anyone want to ride a robot that constantly twists up and down, and I think same would happen with a robot similar Big Dog, unless you create some sort of stabilizer that keeps the rider somewhat in same position...
Bah, screw legged robots, gimme my hoverboard!
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Hahaha, that would be awesome. Although I wish they found a way to do this without cooling the board to below 100K - you'd have to have some seriously warm snow boots to ride it; and god forbid if you fall over and smash your face against the board.
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Good to see it still makes that horrible nightmare noise.
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The Oakland Raiders used the franchise tag on Tyvon Branch, preventing him from hitting unrestricted free agency. Initially Branch was not going to sign his tag but plans to now, according to Jason La Canfora of NFL Network.
Raiders S Tyvon Branch will sign his franchise tender today and report to team. Still very much seeking long-term deal— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) May 7, 2012
As La Canfora notes, both sides are still trying to work out a long term deal. Under the franchise tag, Branch is set to make $6.2 million for the 2012 season. Branch was originally a fourth-round draft pick by the Raiders in the 2008 NFL Draft and has been a full-time starter for the team since 2009, starting all 16 games each year.
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climb the obvious ramp up to the roof. pass the roof (crux) utilizing face holds left. 10+ or C1+. continue up the ramp to bomber anchors just before a large boulder (where the rock quality deteriorates). double 70s (MANDATORY) off. we had some rope left on the ground. not sure if double 60s would make it. crazy good rap off over the mouth of the cave. great route. looks easy, a little deceiving; a bit harder than it looks. pretty clean for a new route with good rock quality. the ramp is detached, so it's also an arch.
100+ yards right of kings hand. very obvious ramp and cave. nice little ledge and shade tree at the base of the route. start up the ramp below the roof. one double 70s (MANDATORY) rap to the deck.
camalots: singles to #2, double or triple #3s, optional #3 1/2s, optional #4s, double or triple #5s, double or triple #6s. runners. a 3 and or 4 big bro would probably be useful. i didn't have them. no stoppers or hexes needed. bomber, power drilled anchors up top with 2 1/2 by 4 3/4 bolts and one 1/2 by 3 3/4.


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For its final season, the CW series NIKITA is racing no holds barred to its epic series finale. The series returned last week with the episode "Wanted," as Nikita (Maggie Q) tried to return and clear her name by enlisting the aid of a sympathetic news reporter Dale Gordon (Todd Grinnell). But that did
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