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Cammalleri's return to practice like 'first day of school'
DAVE STUBBS, The GazettePublished: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Michael Cammalleri was going to practice with the Canadiens yesterday or a full bottle of water was going to waste.
This was the first clue the Canadiens' leading goal-scorer would join his teammates on Brossard ice yesterday morning for the first time in seven weeks less a day: An hour before the 11:30 scheduled start of practice, there was a green Gatorade bottle on the boards at the players' bench, Sharpie-marked with his jersey number 13.
It was unlikely that former Canadien Alex Tanguay had forgotten a bottle here last spring, or that it belonged to fellow No. 13s Edmond Bouchard, Billy Boucher or Clément Piché from the 1921-22 club.
"It felt really good today. It was really painfree," Cammalleri says of injured knee after practice.
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So Cammalleri seemed sure to practise with his team for the first time since a knee injury sidelined him Jan. 30.
And at 11:20 a.m., Cammalleri stepped onto the ice.
"It was really nice to be back with the guys," he said after a full, intense practice, still in uniform when the media horseshoed him into his dressing-room stall.
He was not wearing a jersey that denotes non-contact; Cammalleri went full bore and was fair game for anything or anyone.
"It felt like the first day of school a little bit," he said. "I tried to pretend that I wasn't all that excited - no big deal - but I was pretty excited to be out there." Cammalleri took the team charter to Toronto for tonight's game against the Maple Leafs and said "either way" he'll participate in this morning's pregame skate.
The Canadiens have been known to pull a fast one with their lineup, but don't expect to see the club's 26-goal, 48-point scorer on the rink during the Air Canada Centre warbling of O Canada.
The Habs bring a six-game winning streak to Toronto and are firing nicely on all cylinders. A fully healthy Cammalleri will be much more valuable to the team in the final drive to the playoffs, 10 games left on the schedule after tonight.
"As soon as possible" was as far as he'd commit to his return, but with four games in six nights beginning Monday at home against Ottawa, the smart money says he'll be in the lineup Wednesday in Buffalo or Thursday at home vs. Florida.
"It felt really good today," Cammalleri said of practice. "Really positive. It couldn't have gone any better. It was really painfree. Whenever they give me the green light, I'm ready. ...
"I actually felt fast, like I had a fresh jump to my stride. I thought I'd be slower than I was." Of course, practice is no substitute for game conditions, just as skating alone cannot replicate a crowded practice rink. Cammalleri has done his homework with the Canadiens athletic therapy staff and on the ice, solo. Encouraging for all was yesterday's practice, which concluded with his leading the centre-ice team stretch.
"That was pretty much the whole team egging me on," Cammalleri said, laughing. "That's part of the camaraderie. That's the stuff that makes it fun to come to the rink every day." Well, perhaps not every day. Seven weeks of rehab is not a joy, though Cammalleri said he learned patience before signing last summer with the Canadiens. Injuries suffered previously in Los Angeles with the Kings taught him how to productively cool his heels.


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The Quest for Certainty
October 29, 2012
Choose your language
The Problem with Dynamic Condition-Dependent Multipliers
Measuring GDP
The Economics of Assumptions
Investing in an Uncertain World
South America, New York, North Dakota, and Greece?
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
– Albert Einstein
"To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown – the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none… The cause-creating drive is thus conditioned and excited by the feeling of fear …"
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."
– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
The last two weeks we have been looking at the problems with models. First we touched on what I called the Economic Singularity. In physics a singularity is where the mathematical models no longer work. For example, models based on the physics of relativity no longer work if one gets too close to a black hole. If we think of too much debt as a black hole of sorts, we may understand why economic models no longer work. Last week, in "The Perils of Fiscal Cliff," we looked at the use of fiscal multipliers by economists in order to argue for or against governmental economic policies. Do you argue for austerity, or against it? There is a model that will support your case, most likely using the same data that your adversary uses.
These letters have generated a great deal of positive response and conversation. While I very rarely suggest to readers to go back and read previous letters, but reading these may help you appreciate why it is so difficult to understand what is happening in the global economy today.This week, in a somewhat shorter letter, we once again consider the vagaries of measurements and models. Growth of the US economy, we are told, was 2% last quarter. That number will of course be revised, but what is it we are measuring? Should we attach any importance to the measurement at all? The short answer to the last question is yes, but it is important to understand that there is no certainty in that number. Or at least not any certainty according to the generally accepted meaning of that word.
The Problem with Dynamic Condition-Dependent Multipliers
I use the above subhead with a great deal of irony. I garnered that phrase from a rather insightful letter from my friend Rob Arnott (founder of Research Affiliates, whose brilliant work is used to manage over $100 billion). I am going to start this week's Thoughts from the Frontline with his letter, with my comments inserted in brackets [and italicized]. He was responding to last…


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A Hot Property
IP curriculum evolves with student interest and new technologies
Walk by Professor Lloyd Weinreb's copyright lecture, and you might hear the songs of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, former Beatle George Harrison or even pop singer Michael Bolton blaring from the classroom.
No, they aren't favorite tunes from Weinreb's record collection; he much prefers classical composers or Rodgers and Hammerstein show tunes.
But each of these musicians was involved in a prominent copyright infringement suit, and Weinreb plays their songs as he discusses their cases. On another day, Weinreb might display the insignia of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens, the subject of another copyright dispute.
Such multimedia presentations were certainly not the norm when Weinreb '62 took Copyright with Benjamin Kaplan at Harvard Law 42 years ago. But much has changed in the intervening decades in how students learn about intellectual property here.
Whereas Kaplan's two-hours-per-week copyright law class was the only intellectual property course offering then, students today can fill whole semesters with the school's nine IP-related offerings, including recent interdisciplinary additions such as cyberlaw and biotechnology law. Just this fall, the school received a $3 million gift to establish its first professorship in patent law.
"The demand for intellectual property has been immense," says Weinreb. "The whole world is interested in intellectual property right now."
Outside of class, students with an interest in IP can do research or enroll in a clinical at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Or they might write articles for the student-run Harvard Journal of Law & Technology or help organize conferences for the Harvard Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law.
Though the Internet bubble burst years ago, those offerings keep attracting more students. One explanation: Harvard Law's current student body is stacked with Internet startup survivors who brought their interest in technology with them. But student interest in IP extends far beyond those Silicon Valley expatriates. To see why the same issues are relevant to the average HLS student, look no further than Weinreb's copyright class this past spring that met three times each week in Pound Hall.
The first sound a visitor hears is the constant tapping of keys--nearly all of the students in the room are typing their notes on a laptop. And, thanks to schoolwide wireless Internet access installed this academic year at the direction of Dean Elena Kagan '86, the World Wide Web is just a click away at every seat. That innovation is of little interest to Weinreb, a self-described "semi-Luddite," who didn't even have a computer in his office until 2001. Even today, he says, he doesn't know how to do much besides e-mail and hasn't ever looked at file-swapping programs like Napster.
Still, in the 16 years since he started teaching copyright, Weinreb's approach has evolved along with new technologies. In today's lecture, he is wrapping up the copyright portion of his class with a lecture on the fair-use doctrine before starting a half-semester overview of patent law and trademarks.
At the same time, Professor William Fisher III '82, co-director of the Berkman Center, is leading a class discussion in his patent law course while standing before a PowerPoint presentation. Yet the class discussion topic is considerably less high-tech: a hypothetical salt-injected fishing lure designed to catch bass.
He presses one student to discuss whether the inventor should get a patent and what the appropriate field of art should be. During his second IP class of the day, later that night, Fisher takes a back seat to his students in a seminar on current trends in cyberlaw.
Eating takeout Thai food around a table in the attic of Austin Hall, Fisher and his 15 students talk with visiting UCLA law school Professor Jerry Kang '93 about who should own rights to private information on the Web. Kang asks them to consider, if personal data like online buying habits is considered property, whether it's best controlled by individuals, by companies or in some form of mutual control.
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There is a kind of sound that delivers you back to a place and time that you loved — or that you imagine you would have loved if given the opportunity. Ersi Arvizu's new Friend for Life is just such an experience.
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Arvizu, belting and crooning back in the day
When I say this album takes me back, I'm talking about a sound that we haven't heard for a long, long time, because they just haven't been making it, that peculiarly Los Angeles hybrid of rock, soul, funk, jazz and Afro-Cuban flavors that one band in particular, El Chicano, specialized in and briefly found favor with on the national charts in the early '70s, and most especially on their home turf of East L.A.
For a time, the band featured a young woman named Ersi Arvizu on lead vocals. Arvizu possesses a set of pipes that emit this sandpapery, deep, melodious richness, a voice of the warmest but grittiest passion, inspired by the great bolero singers of Mexico but emanating from a special place inside a special person.
Arvizu's Ry Cooder–produced Friend for Life represents her re-emergence after many years out of the limelight, a time she spent surviving — working for FedEx to pay the bills, but, more interestingly, also as a boxing trainer and, for a time, a singing prizefighter. (The latter two were not simultaneous, but we'll get to that in a minute.)
Arvizu's return and her new album's genesis all started when Cooder was scouting female singers to balance out the recording of his acclaimed 2005 Chavez Ravine album, and found her. In fact, though, the story starts back in the early '60s, when the teenage Arvizu had a singing group with her siblings called the Sisters.
"I was about halfway through the Chavez Ravine album," says Cooder, "and I had gotten Lalo Guerrero down, I had Don Tosti, I had Willie G and I had about five, six tunes, so it occurred to me that it was important to try to find some kind of female voice; it would just be a good thing. But in the repertoire of the East L.A. scene, there just hadn't been very many — or that I was aware of." While consulting Barrio Rhythm, an encyclopedia of East L.A. music, he saw a photo of the Sisters. "Here was this picture of a trio with three teenage girls, sisters, with their beehive hairdos and all this, and I said, 'Look at those faces!' "
Cooder asked his Eastside pal Gene Aguilera to help find Arvizu. He wanted to see if she still sang like she did back in the day. It took only two songs. "It sounded exactly the same as the record," he says. "So I thought, well, this is too good to be true, because, you know, time does things to people in music. The problem I find is that in the intervening time, tastes change, and demands change, and people change in order to try to accommodate those changes. That's the worst thing of all — styles or originality or individuality, it's stamped out half the time. Anyway, here was Ersi singing, and it didn't sound any different, and moreover, she sounded fantastic."
Arvizu had grown up in a musical family in East L.A. She and her two sisters and younger brother were bilingual as children; their mother was from Sonora, Mexico, while her father was from Tucson, Arizona. He trained boxers in a gym in the family's backyard, with the assistance of eager young Ersi. With the encouragement of their mother, Arvizu and her sisters formed a singing group that performed at high school dances.
"My sisters and I used to sing the doo-wop stuff," she says. "And there was a gentlemen by the name of Billy Cardenas who heard us, and he took us to Bob Keane [of Del-Fi Records]. Bob signed us, and we had a No. 3 record in '65 called 'Gee Baby Gee,' until the Supremes came and knocked us down."
The Sisters performed all over Los Angeles, opening up for the touring pop stars of the day, including Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher, the Righteous Brothers and Stevie Wonder. "We would sing at the big union hall in Vernon, or we would go to El Monte Legion Stadium, and then we would play local dances, like the Mardi Gras in L.A."
Arvizu's parents played a significant part in forming her musical sensibilities; her mother was a songwriter of sorts, though her father didn't like that much: He was jealous, and thought Arvizu's mother's evenings spent songwriting downstairs a little suspicious. So she played the guitar and sang while she was making dinner, and would call the children in one by one and rehearse with them.


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Union City, Ind. The father of an 8-year-old eastern Indiana boy who died after being hit by a baseball says he at first didn't think his son was badly hurt.
Erik Williams says his son Dylan was playing first base during a Union City all-star team practice on Tuesday when a teammate threw a ball that hit him in the neck.
Williams tells WISH-TV he shouted at Dylan to get up and that he should've been paying attention. He then went to pick up his son and found him limp.
Dylan was taken from the city about 30 miles east of Muncie to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, where he died Wednesday of blunt force trauma.
Williams tells WRTV that doctors described Dylan's death as a one in 10 million chance.


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for Everyoneby Allanfrom Bradenton, Florida
Nice stay near Zion and Bryce CanyonPosted Oct 5, 2013
Pros: The restaurant attached provided nice meals at a reasonable price
Cons: Provide more for the price.
Location: Zion National park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Kanab, UT
We had to check-in late due to a long drive from Capitol Reef National Park. Front desk staff was very friendly and courteous even at the late hour. Room was clean and comfortable and parking was close to the door of the room making it easy to unload the luggage and load back up the next morning. Motel has an attached restaurant and the food was very good. A good stay, although very pricey.
for Everyoneby mature tourer
Thunderbirds are go!Posted Oct 5, 2013
Comfy and friendly staff with good food. Quirky furnishings add to the authentic experience
for Everyoneby Lesfrom UK
Golf anyone?Posted Sep 27, 2013
Pros: Quiet location.
Location: Convenient for Bryce and Zion.
Great location alongside a golf course, with an onsite restaurant.
for Everyoneby Bobfrom The Villages, FL
Excellent location between Zion and Bryce CanyonPosted Sep 25, 2013
Pros: Location and room comfort.
Cons: No complaints at all.
Location: Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks are close by.
This was a very nice find. Located conveniently between Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. There is an accompanying golf course, mountain view, satisfactory restaurant and a nice view. The room was very spacious, clean and comfortable.
for Everyoneby Sharonfrom Atlanta, GA
Pleasantly surprisedPosted Sep 11, 2013
Pros: Clean and spacious rooms. Friendly staff. Good restaurant. Convenient location for Zion and Bryce.
Cons: Can't think of anything.
We weren't expecting much in this small spot in the middle of a remote Utah rural highway. We were pleasantly surprised to find a very well-maintained, spacious and clean room. We enjoyed dinner and breakfast at the adjoining restaurant. The staff at the hotel and restaurant were very pleasant. Each room has a couple of plastic chairs sitting on the small patio that looks out over the pool and grassy area between the buildings. The scenery and breeze were a nice way to relax after a long day at Zion N.P.. Don't hesitate to book a room here.
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Wonderful hotel, great location!Posted Sep 2, 2013
Lovely hotel in a great location at the Grand Canyon. Lodge and cafeteria were good, staff friendly and helpful.
for Everyoneby Gillfrom UK
Good location; nice hotelPosted Aug 25, 2013
We really liked this hotel. It is well situated between Zion and Bryce. The room was very nice, and so were the staff on reception. We booked for 2 nights, but unfortunately due to toothache we had to leave after only one night, and the staff were very gracious about amending our booking. We didn't eat here (toothache!) so can't comment on the restaurant. Kids enjoyed the pool. The aircon was a little on the noisy side - but very welcome :-)
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ThunderbirdPosted Aug 12, 2013
overall great stay! Clean , beautiful area and great staff.
for Everyoneby Johnfrom Ottawa, ON, Canada
A good place to stay.Posted Aug 10, 2013
Well appointed motel in beautiful surroundings. Very friendly staff. I had no complaints whatsoever!
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Ideal Hotel for Zion National ParkPosted Jul 31, 2013
We stayed only one night, 2 adults and 2 children, everything was perfect. Ideal for visiting Zion National Park.


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Visiting Campus
You have to see Paul Smith's to believe it. What other college campus is smack in the middle of a state park? Bring your parents, take a tour, meet with an admissions counselor and even sit in on a class or two. We're confident that once you've experienced Paul Smith's in person, you'll be hooked.
Campus Visit Days
Campus Visit Days will be held on October 18th and November 10th.
These special admissions events are a great way to meet lots of current Paul Smith's students, staff and faculty. While you are on campus you will explore academic facilities, learn about financial aid and scholarship opportunities, hear from facutly and current students about academic offereings, enjoy a meal in the lakeside dining hall, and much more!
Transfer Visit Days
Transfer Visit Days will be held on October 24th and November 21st.
These special admissions events are organized by the office of Veteran & Tranfers Services and are a great way to meet lots of current Paul Smith's transfer students and faculty. Transfer Visit Days are also an opportunity to meet one-on-one with your transfer admissions counselor and learn about all of the credits that will transfer to Paul Smith's College. To learn more about event dates and to reserve your spot, call us at (800) 421-2605 or sign up online and we'll be in touch ASAP.
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If you can't make it to one of the Campus Visit Days, don't worry. We run daily campus tours Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and Saturdays at 11 a.m. All campus tours include an optional meeting with an admissions counselor and faculty member in your field of interest. To book your tour, call us at (800) 421-2605 or sign up online.
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Sebastiaan Meijer (POLG/KTH Stockholm) and Heide Lukosch (SK) invited to represent the "Next Generation" of gaming researchers in a panel discussion at the International Simulation and Gaming (ISAGA) conference in Dornbirn, Austria, from July 07 till 11 2014
Sebastiaan Meijer (POLG/KTH Stockholm) and Heide Lukosch (SK) have been invited to represent the "Next Generation" of gaming researchers in a panel discussion called "Back to the Future of Gaming" together with Richard Duke, and several other "Veterans" of gaming research at the International Simulation and Gaming (ISAGA) conference 2014 entitled "The shift from teaching to learning" (http://www.isaga2014.com/). The conference will be held in Dornbirn, Austria, from 07.-11.07.2014. Furthermore, the ISAGA conference paper of Shalini Kurapati (SK), Daan Groen (InThere), Heide Lukosch (SK) and Alexander Verbraeck (SK) on "Microgames in Practice: A Case Study in Container Terminal Operations" has been nominated for the best paper award. Last but not least, Rens Kortmann (SK) and Heide Lukosch (SK) are organizing an interactive workshop on the "Future of distributed gaming" at the conference. Gaming research of TBM is thus very well represented at one of the largest gaming conferences in the world.
Rens Kortmann appears in opera about gaming and participation
Assistant professor Rens Kortmann will appear as an expert on gaming and participation in the opera 'Parsival, playingfields' during the Rotterdam Opera Days. During the preparation of the event he acted as a scientific sparring partner to the director. During the performance he will shortly introduce the audience to the idea of playful participation. From the programme: "In Wagners' Parsifal the eponymous hero sets out to redeem those he meets. But should not every redeemer be distrusted or avoided? In this refreshing adaptation, Wagners' themes and symbols are held up to the harsh light of modern times." Performance dates (all in Dutch): 17 – 20 May 2014 @ Oude Luxor Theatre, Rotterdam. Info and tickets: https://www.operadagenrotterdam.nl/en/programme/events/Parsifal
Master class: Agent Technologies for Energy Systems from Friday the 21st till the 23rd of May 2014.
Master Class on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems 2014′consists of a 3-day workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems.
The event is organized by the Delft University of Technology in close collaboration with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the Alliander Company and takes place from Wednesday through Friday the 21st till the 23rd of May 2014.
More information can be obtained at http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/ates2014,
where you can also register till May 10th for the event.
Stephan Lukosch at the 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2014) on March 28, 2014 at Budapest, Hungary
Stephan Lukosch from the Multi-Actor Systems Department is invited as keynote speaker to the 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2014) (http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de/percol2014/). PerCol 2014 is held in conjunction with the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014) (http://www.percom.org). In his keynote, Stephan will report on his recent research results and layout a future roadmap on establishing virtual co-location.
NWO Project in the Uncertainty Reduction in Smart Energy Systems (URSES) call approved for funding
The project called 'Stable and scalable decentralized power balancing systems using adaptive clustering' focuses on the design of distributed coordination and market mechanisms that incorporate decentralized, stabilizing, and scalable approaches to balance supply and demand (S/D) of energy. Distributed dynamic clusters of synergetic consumers and producers are form the basic construct. Clusters are designed to coordinate local load balancing for varying periods of time amongst consumers and producers, typically for substantially longer periods than considered in markets. Local load balancing in clusters thus allows for novel, more reliable solutions for global load balancing and can be used in conjunction with (current or novel) external market mechanisms. In addition, clusters are dynamic and can adapt to changing situations, including network failures. This project designs novel models, techniques and approaches for dynamic clustering and market mechanisms for energy S/D balancing, in a cooperation between engineering systems, computer science, and electrical engineering researchers, and network operator, ICT, and business consultants.
Frances Brazier is the principal investigator of the project, which is in cooperation with CWI, EWI (TU Delft), KEMA, Thales R&D and Alliander
Indiase en Nederlandse wetenschappers aan de slag met slimme elektriciteitsnetwerken
Participatory Systems is gehonoreerd met het project Adaptive clustering for Decentralised Resilient Energy Management – ADREM. Dit is één van de drie samenwerkingsprojecten tussen wetenschappelijke instellingen in Nederland en India gaat het internationale Smart Grids programma van de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek van start. Onderzoekers gaan werken aan oplossingen om de infrastructuur voor elektriciteit verder te verbeteren.
ISAGA Summerschool
This year, TBM will host the Summerschool of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA). This year's edition will provide an interactive experience for about 30-40 international participants under the theme "Games for Governance and Participation". Experts from all over the world will support the Summerschool with interactive sessions on game design, and participants will actively learn about game design in guided exercises.
You can find more information about scope, dates and registration on http://www.summerschool.isaga.net
It will be worth visiting the website from time to time as we will provide more information on and from the speakers soon…
Please also spread this information to colleagues who might be interested.
The organizers,
Rens Kortmann, Geertje Bekebrede, Heide Lukosch
Postdoc starts on CIVIS project
As per 1 January 2014 Yilin Huang started as a postdoc at the Systems Engineering section to the FP7 project CIVIS, Cities as drivers of social change. The project already started in October 2013.
Frances Brazier in Intermediair: 'Onze privacy wordt verwaarloosd'
Internethoogleraar Frances Brazier van de TU Delft was als enige vrouw betrokken bij de totstandkoming van internet in ons land. Nu zet ze zich in voor participatiesystemen, het Participatory Systems Initiative, samen met informatici, sociale wetenschappers en kunstenaars, én voor meer vrouwen in de wetenschap. 'Nee, dat is geen gezeur.'
Augmented reality for emergency services in different media
Augmented reality for emergency services has received media attention. Using augmented reality, the police might in future be able to provide information for police agents in the neighbourhood to handle unforeseen situations, the Netherlands Forensic Institute might in future be able to provide information (procedures, dangerous or hazardous items) for forensic researcher on a crime scene to collect evidence or the fire department might in future be able to provide information (maps, dangerous or hazardous items) for fireman during operation.


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President Barack Obama has proposed tough new rules for vehicle emissions, which could see a 30 per cent reduction in individual passenger car emissions by 2016. Obama_CAFE Obama and friends unveil CAFE from the White House Rose Garden The new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards also decree that car manufacturers …
Emissions, or consumption?
If the standard is for emissions, that would rule out plug in electric cars, since the electricity requirement would boost emissions at the power station enormously. If whoever it is simply mpg at the vehicle, then everything would be roses. Except of course at the power station...
Most people are unaware of the minsicule 16oz pint in the US.
In books they go on about a 'quart' of wine but that's about a litre.
Gallons are tiny.
Uh-oh.... Jaguar are suddenly looking pretty much fucked.
Re: Emissions, or consumption?
Don't be daft, no electric car does worse than the equivalent of 50 mpg, their energy storage capacity alone pretty much forces a small efficient design.
@Stuart Gray
Even using conventional gas or coal power stations to power EVs can reduce emissions compared to running on petrol (they're about 40% efficient, petrol engines can make it up to this level only in ideal conditions and at constant RPM cruising. Stuck in a jam or driving around town and petrol is at a vast disadvantage). CHP power stations (where waste heat is used by local businesses and/or houses) can hit 80% or more efficiency and carbon capture is possible with large fixed plant like this.
For the sanity of readers who have a clue, please please please state mpg (imperial) or mpg (US) in the article - defining your units at the end of the article is more than a bit silly.
Re: Emissions, or consumption?
how to solve a big problem split it into 2 small ones
1. make good electric cars
2. make clean/green power plants
There goes any chance I'll be buying a new vehicle in this lifetime. I actually haul equipment so a pregnant skateboard is worthless.
Mine's the one truck keys in the pocket.
Even my MR2 can do that!
What do American cars do with all that fuel, piss it out on the road? Even if we stopped all cars in the UK tomorrow it would be a drop in the ocean compared to US CO2 emissions. They seem to drive less efficient cars and drive them more (I've only seen Americans drive from one end of the car park to another!).
Mind you, even that's nothing compared to deforestation of the rain forest.....
Wrong on so many levels...
It may improve in the future, but when you look at the numbers leccy cars are actually much worst for the environment (same or more emission of pollutants per km -yes, km, let's use real units will you?-, plus lottsa very nasty chemical in the batteries. Oh, and throw in all these high-voltage power lines too). And emissions from cars are, how to put it, not precisely the biggest source of pollution (even in the US). I guess the other sources are, erm, "too big to bother" or sumfin.
Hey, you gotta keep the sheeple busy I suppose. From this point of view, I have to admit that this kind of hot air is better than invading other countries...
No doubt people will bleat on how power stations are needed for leccy cars, and these stations spew out carbon.
Carbon is just an excuse, leccy cars get the pollution out of the urban areas and move it to whatever FSMforsaken place the power station occupies. A cleaner urban environment is a good thing.
small beer
My ten-year-old Ford Escort wagon already gets a fuel economy within 10% of the 2016 requirements, so this announcement seems like small beer... so long as most people drive small cars. It should (hopefully) pretty much kill off obscenities like the Hummer, though.
UK or US gallons?
Is that 51 miles per US gallon (14 miles/litre, 11.4 litres/100km)
or 51 miles per UK gallon (11.3 miles/litre, 14.1 litres/100km)
(I think my maths is right)
The good old days
I used to like those old articles on El Reg, written by economists, saying how cutting emissions would stuff the economy. Now it seems economists have stuffed the economy themselves so we may as well cut emissions it seems.
apples and cranberries
How does these standards compare to (a) EU standards and (b) the rest of the world's cars?
I can't tell how much contempt to allocate to the whining of US carmakers and right libertarians.
Re: 43mpg
You wonder how they only get 43mpg? Here's how:
"The most popular type is the Family Sedan ... Six-cylinder engines are the norm, but smaller sedans might have four-cylinder power and larger ones a V8"
I'll add that they almost always mate that six-cylinder to an automatic transmission, which conveniently absorbs most of that power.
Many of their engines are also technologically challenged; 2 valves per cylinder is common, as is fixed valve timing, and ohv. In many ways they're using a scaled up version of our engine technology from 25 years ago.
When I was last over there I took a Ford Mustang for a test drive. I was really impressed when I turned the engine over and the whole vehicle twisted with the torque. Sadly in use it was rather similar to driving a 1.6 Focus with the steering disconnected ;)
They do also use a different gallon to us...
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01 June 2014 13:44
Marc Marquez was forced to fight hard with fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo to make it six wins from six races in 2014 at Mugello. Lorenzo and Marquez moved to the front of the pack early on in the race and pulled away from the rest of the field, although Marquez looked unable to make a move on Lorenzo. Marquez left it late ...
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After a slow start Marc VDS rider Esteve Rabat fought back to extend his championship lead with his third victory of the season at Mugello. German Jonas Folger, who led for most of the race was unable to stay with Rabat once the Spaniard had taken the lead. Folger finished third, with Luis Salom second. After a brilliant qualifying performance ...
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Italian Romano Fenati has taken victory in the Moto3 race at his home circuit after a breath taking race long scrap which saw just one tenth of a second cover the top three across the line. The Sky Racing Team VR46 rider was involved in a race long battle in the leading group which covered the top 13 riders. Second ...
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Reigning champion Marc Marquez has made it five wins in the first five races of 2014 despite running off track on the opening lap. The 21-year-old Spaniard was pushed wide and over the kerb by Jorge Lorenzo on the first lap and rejoined in tenth place. Just ten laps later Marquez had fought his way up to second place behind ...
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Marc VDS rider Mika Kallio made it two on the bounce with victory at Le Mans today to keep up the pressure on team-mate and championship leader Esteve Rabat. Kallio rode a calculated race, allowing Simone Corsi to lead from the front before making his move with eight laps to go. Corsi finished second, holding off a late challenge from ...
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Australian Jack Miller left it until the final lap to take victory at Le Mans and extend his championship lead after Romano Fenati retired from the race. Miller struggled as his factory KTM was visibly down on top speed, but late, committed braking saw him take the top step ahead of Alex Rins and Isaac Vinales. Pole sitter Efren Vazquez ...
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04 May 2014 13:45
Marc Marquez claimed his first ever victory at the Jerez circuit to continue his amazing 100% record in 2014 after also claiming pole position. Marquez was forced to battle with Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi in the early laps as the pair battled for the lead. But on lap three Marquez pulled the pin and eased away from Rossi, who was unable to respond. Rossi ...
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04 May 2014 12:05
Marc VDS rider Mika Kallio rode a perfect race to record his first Moto2 win of the season after starting from pole position. The Fin got the holeshot and was untouchable until the chequered flag, finishing 2.434 seconds ahead of second place finisher Dominique Aegerter. Moto2 rookie Jonas Folger finished third ahead of championship leader Esteve Rabat, two seconds further ...
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Italian Romano Fenati left it till the final lap to take first place and his second win in a row at Jerez today. The Sky Racing Team VR46 rider almost lost out to Alex Rins at the final corner, but the Spaniard was unable to hold his line and had to settle for third place, with fellow Spaniard Efren Vasquezbeating hikm ...
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Reigning champion Marc Marquez battled through the pain barrier of a broken leg to take victory at the Losail circuit. The Repsol Honda rider started from pole position and had to battle with Stefan Bradl and Valentino Rossi to take 25 points. Rossi made Marquez fight right to the wire, with the pair swapping places several times on the penultimate ...
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This Pretty Much Sums Up My Attitude TodayFriday, September 29th, 2006
Sorry I Missed ItFriday, September 29th, 2006
The public hearing over whether or not to rename Richard Scrushy Parkway turned into a shouting match that spilled out into the street. Local talk radio host Frank Matthews, a long-time Scrushy supporter, argued against the name change, saying Scrushy had not been found guilty. Huh? In what alternate universe? I guess Frank missed this:
In June 2005, a Birmingham jury acquitted Scrushy on criminal charges related to the massive accounting scandal at HealthSouth. This past June, Scrushy was convicted by a federal jury on six charges against him – bribery, conspiracy and four counts of honest services mail fraud.
There was no decision at last night's meeting — the proposed name change has been referred to a committee.
The People Who Run Denny's Must Be Dumber Than RocksThursday, September 28th, 2006
How many discrimination suits does it take before you figure out not to discriminate? Maybe the Denny's folks figured if they weren't refusing to serve Hispanics or requiring prepayment from black customers, they wouldn't get in trouble for firing a manager who had to have her leg amputated because they considered her a safety risk. I cannot muster the words to describe the utter stupidity.
Congress Rolls Over for Bush (Again)Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Human rights? What human rights? If W says you're an enemy combatant, your ass is off to Gitmo. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200, and do not expect to see the light of day again. No appeals, no recourse. And the definition of "enemy combatant" has been expanded to mean pretty much anything Bush wants it to mean. So far, this doesn't apply to US citizens, although it does apply to non-citizens living here legally.
For all the religious right's screaming about women's rights and gay rights bringing about the end of American civilization, it's one of their own who is dismantling democracy right in front of our eyes. I hope they're proud of him. I'm not.
Bush Wants His "Disappear and Torture" Bill, and He Wants It Now!Thursday, September 28th, 2006
W headed over to Capitol Hill today (presumably before flying in and screwing up traffic in Birmingham) to urge Congress to pass his reinterpretation of the Geneva Conventions. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA ) introduced an amendment that would restore detainees' right to challenge their detention, but it was defeated. And that's a good thing for W — not, as he says, because there are so many bad people out there who want to hurt us, but because it seems almost every time a detention is challenged, it turns out the detainee is either completely innocent or only tangentially connected to terrorism.
Specter said the right to challenge one's detention was fundamental in American law, and that the Supreme Court would reject the plan if the right were stripped.
"This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American," said Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's top Democrat. "It is designed to ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power."
Our very own Jeff Sessions (R-idiot) had to chime in and show his complete disregard for those who are a bit too brown or too not-American:
Republicans said lawsuit[s] from Guantanamo inmates were clogging the courts and detracted from the war on terrorism.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions said the bill should not "create a long-term battle with the courts over everybody that's being detained. It is a function of the military and the executive branch to conduct a war."
So instead of carefully investigating these prisoners, many of whom were handed over for a bounty with no proof they had done anything wrong, and quickly releasing those who can't be linked to terrorism, we'll just throw them in Guantanamo or some other prison and let them rot there forever. If they can't challenge their detention, then they'll just have to shut up and deal with it.
That's a great way to spread American values around the world.
Seen Somewhere In BirminghamThursday, September 28th, 2006
Okay, before anyone yells at me, I think Hugo Chavez was out of line in his remarks to the UN. But I just about fell out of my chair laughing at a comment I saw somewhere that the sulfur smell was actually due to Bush's fondness for flatulence. I hope he can restrain himself while he's in town today, but those of us who comprise "the public" will never know for sure.
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W Comes To TownThursday, September 28th, 2006
Bush will be in Birmingham today, visiting Hoover's Homeland Security Department — I mean Public Safety building — and then zipping downtown for a Riley fundraiser. Here's the money quote:
Neither event is open to the public.
That's pretty much the story of the entire Bush presidency.
Proof of Something I Already KnewWednesday, September 27th, 2006
Kids are almost always better with computers than their parents are. A three-year-old bought himself a pink convertible on eBay, using his mother's password and the "Buy It Now" option. That's what happens when you click "remember me on this computer" or other similar options. I hope my children don't hear about this and get ideas. (Fortunately, the seller didn't hold the parents to the $17,000 bid.)
Compromise CompromisedWednesday, September 27th, 2006
When is Sen. John McCain going to figure out that George W. Bush can't be trusted? The compromises in the detainee bill worked out last week have already been sabotaged by "re-working" over the weekend.
From the New York Times:
In one change, the original language said that a suspect had the right to "examine and respond to" all evidence used against him. Mr. Graham and his colleagues in resisting the White House, Senators John W. Warner of Virginia and John McCain of Arizona, had insisted that the provision was necessary to prevent so-called secret trials. The bill submitted late Monday dropped the word "examine" and left only "respond to," reviving complaints about secret trials, this time from Democrats.
In another, the original compromise said that evidence seized "outside the United States" could be admitted in court even if it had been obtained without a search warrant, a provision Republicans and Democrats agreed was necessary to deal with the unusual circumstances of seizing evidence on the battlefield.
The bill introduced Monday dropped the words "outside the United States," which Democrats said meant that prosecutors could ignore American legal standards on search warrants within the country. The bill also broadened the definition of an unlawful enemy combatant, from anyone "engaged in hostilities against the United States" to include anyone who "has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States."
"These are significant changes, not technical changes," said Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, where the original bill backed by Senators Warner, McCain and Graham was approved. "It's hard to know how to vote on a bill that's this much in motion."
Now the plan is to push the bill through before the election year recess so Bush can parade a "victory" before the voters. Here's the problem: we have a president who cannot tolerate dissent and lackeys who do everything possible to shield him from the real world. I don't think we should be handing him any more power to declare US citizens to be enemy combatants or to try them using secret evidence (although House Republicans say they will restore the word "examine", I'll believe it when I see it). Of course, it doesn't really matter how the bill reads; W will just include a signing statement that says whatever he wants it to say.
The same Republicans who are supporting the President now would be screaming in horror if a Democratic President asked for such power — and so should all of us. I have no desire to live in a dictatorship, whether it comes through military coup or blind loyalty to a power-hungry bully.
Stricter Voting Laws Disproportionately Impact Poor, ElderlyTuesday, September 26th, 2006
Republicans who are pushing for stricter voting laws, like state-issued picture ID or proof of citizenship, seem to believe that there's an epidemic of voter fraud. I'm not so sure. Voter turnout is abysmally low in most elections. If the majority of registered voters can't be bothered to go to the polls, why would a flood of illegal immigrants, felons, or others who can't vote legally take the time and risk of registering, much less turning up at a precinct on election day?
This article in the New York Times confirms my hunch: there is little to no evidence of widespread voter fraud across the US. Cracking down on supposed fraud by requiring a new ID or a birth certificate is only going to suppress the vote of poor and/or elderly people who have every right to cast their ballots but don't have the transportation, money, or access to time off to scoot around to various government offices in order to obtain documents.
Don't get me wrong; in theory, I have absolutely no problem with requiring proof of identity to vote. But I live in a little bubble where everyone has a car and a driver's license and (most likely) a passport and access to funds if they need to order a new copy of their birth certificate. And this kind of comment is truly offensive:
"Democrats believe they represent stupid people who are not smart enough to vote," said Randy Pullen, a Republican national committeeman from Arizona who championed a statewide initiative on the new requirements. "I do not."
No, Mr. Pullen, Democrats don't equate being poor or elderly with being stupid. They do understand that people in these groups have limited access to resources many of us take for granted. That doesn't mean we should limit their access to the voting booth.


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I can't really get excited about this whisky...it's not bad at all but neither is is anything special (not to me anyway)..it does have some very nice flavours on the nose and taste - honey, spice, vanilla hints - and a reasonably smooth finish...I like it but it's not setting my world on fire...perfectly pleasant but forgettable...probably the Scotch equivalent of a Billly Joel album
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Beautiful dram. People saying it's smoky are talking absolute nonsense. It's everything I hoped the 12YO was - smooth, honeyed and with a stunningly mellow finish. Lovely stuff.
26th March 2014
they all have colds in your nose but the whiskey was absolutely great
17th November 2013
Good single malt but the age and therefore price weigh it down. Nice, wood flavor that is hidden behind a strong smokiness. This scotch has nearly no nose and a very clean/dry finish. I propose that if this is your drink maybe try Glenmorangie Origonal 10 year along with a nice cigar and you will likely be more satisfied and have more money left in your pocket. If you can't or don't enjoy tobacco try the Isley Lagavulin.
3rd October 2013
One of the finest whiskeys I've tasted. Smooth and goes down well and leaves a nice taste afterwards.
26th July 2013
Yes, it's an inexpensive foray into the realm of 21 year old scotches but don't let the price fool you. It's a very nice whisky at a very affordable price. About. $40 at Specs. As always, taste is subjective. I think it's a great buy.
23rd April 2013
Nice and smokey! A great nip to impress anyone with!
21st March 2013
Smooth and a little sweet but no real nose and no finish. A drop or two of water opens up the oak on the finish but this isn't worth buying at any price, tho the deal at spec's is tempting if you don't want to drop the cash on something like The Balvenie 21y Portwood.
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AJK University Has Announced Date Sheet Of BA/BSc Supply Exams
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Students don't waste your time any more as it is the real time to study, University of Azad, Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad has just announced the complete scheduled date sheet for the B.A and B.Sc supplementary examination 2012. So the students who unfortunately could not clear the exams in first attempt have the second chance to pass don't waste even a single minute and ,make yourself well prepared for supplementary examination 2012 that are going to be start from Feb 14, 2013.
The time of the exams has been also stated by the University of Azad, Jammu and Kashmir that the students of Group-I have to be in the examination center and on the desk at before 9 am and the exam will end on 12 pm while the time of the Group-II will be 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
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Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes, including militant Anwar Awlaki in Yemen. Two other Americans identified as Al Qaeda supporters were inadvertently slain in drone strikes, and Awlaki's teenage son, who was not considered a militant, was killed in a strike weeks after his father's death. Brennan provided little clarity on what […]
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Under 11 BISAC Football Tournament 2011
Primary Footballers Peak for the BISAC U'11
Football Tournaments 2011
Saturday 5th February saw a hive of activity here at Patana with the Boys BISAC U'11 football being hosted across the road with 24 teams while the Girls BISAC U'11 football was on the Primary Back Field with 16 teams. This was certainly the largest BISAC event and I was delighted to see several of schools following our lead by entering several teams. From a Patana point of view we were able to enter 6 Boys teams and 4 Girls teams with nearly 100 Patana Primary students involved in total. Football-tastic!
The Boys Tournament was split into 3 tiers of 8 teams starting with the Championship, followed by the Plate and then the Bowl competitions. All of the teams were both eager and a little nervous to get started but as soon as the first games began at 8am everyone's confidence began to rise. At the end of the Pool Stages, 5 of our 6 teams had made the Semi Final as pool winner with our Year 4 Bengals also coming third in their pool. The experience was certainly paying dividends for the Bengals as they won their next two matches to come an excellent 5th place in the Bowl. Incredibly all 5 of our semi-finalists teams won through to their final so the Plate and Bowl finals were a Patana V Patana affair. The Patana Tigers team eventually won the Championship Final against NIST 1-0 but certainly deserved their victory after playing some tremendous team football throughout the tournament. Patana Black came out on top against Patana Orange in the Plate while our other outstanding Year 4 Patana Tiger Cubs team beat the Patana White Team to claim the Bowl. A tremendous day for Patana Primary Boys Football where the future certainly looks Orange and Black.
This years' Girls BISAC was the largest in the history of the tournament with an amazing 16 teams entered. The standard of football continues to grow stronger every year and all students benefit from this type of competition. The goal for the day was for the girls was to finish better footballers than they started and I think all their supporters will agree they did and they did it in style!
The Patana Tigers were superb from the first whistle, getting stuck in and playing some beautiful football too. They were 'passing and moving' and cutting through their opponents. In their 3 group games they beat Bromsgrove, NIST and ISB, 4-0, 8-0 & 6-0 respectively. The semi-final was a great deal tighter, with Shrewsbury playing very well, Patana dipping a little and scoring opportunities were kept to a minimum. Both teams had half-chances but it finished 0-0. The referee explained it was to be a penalty shoot-out (cue sharp intakes of breath from everyone!). A large crowd gathered round the goal to see an amazing display of the art of goalkeeping by Christine Smits 5B as she saved all of the Shrewsbury penalties so Patana scraped into the final to meet our old rivals Harrow. Thankfully, our girls got back into their group stage form and played some 'liquid football' to overwhelm Harrow and run out 5-1 winners in the final. The 'sportspersonship', attitude and skill the girls displayed was wonderful and they deserved to win. Well done champions.
Our Patana Orange team went into the Plate competition where we had our Tiger Cubs, NIST B and Harrow C in our group stage games. The opening game was against Harrow C which was a good confidence builder for our girls and they finished with a decisive 4-0 win. The next game had me a little more on edge as NIST have fielded some very strong teams in the past. The girls went in to the game very determined and came away with a 3-0 win. Our final group stage match was against our own Tiger Cubs and this game was one of our toughest. This team played with a lot of heart and we battled to get our first goal against them. That goal came just on the half time whistle and we were able to score another three in the next half to end with a 4-0 win. Like our Tigers, we faced Shrewsbury in the semi-finals. This was a little nerve wracking as Shrewsbury were very strong when we went and played some matches there last term. However, the nerves were clearly not felt by the girls who got stuck in straight away and scored themselves three goals. That put them in the final against NIST B again and the result was exactly the same as it had been in the group matches. It was an absolute pleasure to work with such a committed and hard-working team. A great result for them and an excellent day for Patana football.
The girls Patana Black played together for the first time when they took to the pitch for their first game and their confidence and performances improved with each game they played. They put in a tremendous effort in the final game fielding only 6 players and managing to hold Harrow to a goal less draw only to lose the match in a desperately unlucky penalty shootout. A tremendous effort all round from the team.
For nearly all of our Tiger cubs this was the first BISAC tournament of their sporting careers. The team consisted of our Year 4 girls who were lent the experience and solid defending of captain, Guilia Forrester-Brown 6E. The day started with a very close game with Harrow going one up but the girls' determination and tiger spirit came out and they leveled the game for a draw. The next game was against NIST where the cubs played a good attacking game and had their chances but just couldn't convert. An unfortunate clearance saw the ball ricochet off a NIST players legs into our own goal and the game was lost 0-1. After a loss to Patana Orange the final match of the day against ISB 'B' saw a weary team take the field but they played with great sportsmanship and teamwork. It was a pleasure to coach the girls and I have a feeling they will be competing in many more BISAC tournaments during their time at Patana.
A final thank you to all of the children, parents and Coaches for all of their support during what was a truly remarkable Saturday for Patana Primary football. I must say that it was also very rewarding to see many of our former Primary students playing in the U'13 and U'15 BISAC Tournaments who also came away as Champions.
Article compiled by Mr. Tatam on behalf of the Boys Coaches, Miss Fiona, Mr. Gosling, Miss Michelle, and Miss Kerry. Thanks also to Mr. Trendall, Mr. Amuchou, Mr. Parkin, Mr. Saul, Mr. Hockley, Mr. Chris, Khun Patcharee and the Sports and Activities Team for their help during the tournaments.
Next BISAC is Tee Ball so get ready to schhhwing!!!!
For more pictures click here:
Girls: http://www.patana.ac.th/Primary/viewGallery.asp?hGalleryID=1148
Boys: http://www.patana.ac.th/Primary/viewGallery.asp?hGalleryID=1149
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Earlier today, newscenter 16 was at another South Bend location and in Elkhart, where poll workers said they had seen lines throughout the morning, and at least several voters right as the polls opened at 6 AM.
In addition to the presidential race, Indiana has several important decisions on the ballot, many of which affect our area. One of those contentious races is the run for the 2nd district House seat. Jackie Walorski (R) is challenging Brendan Mullen (D) and Joe Ruiz (L) for the seat after Joe Donnelly announced he would not seek re-election, and was instead making a run for an Indiana Senate seat.
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Wayne Rooney considers himself lucky, despite requiring surgery on a gashed right thigh following Manchester United's recent 3-2 win against Fulham.
The England striker's leg was ripped open in the dying minutes of last month's Barclays Premier League clash when Hudo Rodallega's studs accidentally came down on his thigh. Footage of the incident shocked viewers and team-mate Danny Welbeck recoiled in horror at the sight of the wound.
Remarkably, Rooney insists "it didn't hurt at all" and said doctors told him the damage could have been far worse.
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Rooney also spoke at length to ManUtd.com and MUTV about his four title-winning seasons at Old Trafford. You can watch that exclusive video interview, in four daily instalments, here on ManUtd.com from Saturday 8 September (08:00 BST).
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*After going 1-3 against the Wizards in the first year of the New Big 3 Era (2007-08), the Celtics are 12-3 since and have lost those 3 games by a combined 13 points.
–The Celtics have held the Wizards to 3 or fewer three-pointers made in the last 7 meetings between the two teams (Celtics 5-2 in that span).
*On Friday night, Brandon Jennings recorded a career-high 6 steals and became the first player to record at least 6 steals against the Celtics since Chris Paul did so on December 31, 2010.
–The last player to reach Brandon Jennings's statistics (21 points, 13 assists and 6 steals) against the Celtics was Kenny Anderson (22 points, 13 assists and 6 steals on February 28, 1996 for the Charlotte Hornets in a 121-116 loss to the Celtics).
*Out of the players who have played this season, the Celtics have 6 players with at least 9 years of NBA experience coming into 2012-13. The Wizards have none.
*Although the Wizards have only played one game in the 2012-13 season, they do lead the league with .812 Team Assists per FGM.
–The Celtics led the NBA in this statistic during the 2011-12 season (.665 AST/FGM during regular season). Boston currently has a .639 AST/FGM in the team's first 2 games.
–Last season, the Wizards were 27th overall with .523 AST/FGM.
*Here is an oddity that most likely will not be seen during the rest of this entire season: the Celtics and Miami Heat are tied for the worst defensive efficiency in the league with 112.0 points allowed per 100 possessions.
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19. Otis Thorpe 1,257
19. Kevin Garnett 1,257 (Garnett will pass Thorpe by playing tonight)
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9. Paul Pierce 1,681 (Pierce needs 15 to move into 8th place)
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Jason Thompson reflects on the team's 2012-13 campaign, shares his support for Jason Collins, dishes on offseason plans and more.
What's up, Kings fans? I'm back at it for my end-of-season blog.
We wish we were playing in the Playoffs right now, but we definitely had some quality wins this year – including victories over the Lakers, Clippers and Bulls – that are great memories, as well as examples of our growth and reminders of how we can continue to improve going forward.
Personally, I feel blessed I was able to play every game this season. My body was sore at times, but I played through the wear-and-tear and felt I had a pretty solid campaign. With that said, I always believe I can do better – I've improved in each of my five pro seasons so far, and I'll strive to do the same next year.
Looking back, I'm thankful to be in the position I'm in today. When I think about where I started – from the time a basketball was first put in my hands – to be where I am now – accomplishing my goal of playing in the NBA – it's an amazing and humbling feeling.
Jason Collins' Announcement
It's a big announcement for Jason, not just as a professional athlete but also as a person, and I'm sure he feels better. Being a fellow NBA player, I support him and respect his courage.
One of my favorite highlights and greatest honors this season was winning the team's Oscar Robertson Triple-Double Award. It means so much to me to be recognized not only for my on-court success, but also for my off-court efforts and appearances in the community. I've strived to make a positive impact through my foundation – hosting events such as Red Night Out to benefit the American Heart Association – as well as provide tickets for kids in the "J.T. Block Party" section at Sleep Train Arena.
I'm excited to announce The Jason Thompson Foundation will hold additional events this summer, many of which will probably be on the East Coast. The details and dates will be posted soon on JT34.net and TheJasonThompsonFoundation.com. Some of our outings include visiting local Boys and Girls Clubs, having events at my high school and various elementary schools, as well as hosting a charity golf outing.
Offseason Program
I'll be staying in Philadelphia for most of the summer, working out with my trainer, strength & conditioning coach and shooting coach at a private gym. I'm going to work on my flexibility and lower-body strength, as well as continue to develop my skill set on the court. I'm looking to add more go-to moves and to stretch my range – maybe out to the three-point line – to become a tougher player to guard.
My offseason regimen is mainly up to my trainer, who usually recommends sand and pool workouts for leg strength and a lot of exercises with the TRX band.
While I'm in Philly, I'll also probably catch up and work out with Tyreke. Throughout the summer, my teammates and I text each other to see what's up and try to find a time when we can all meet up.
Eating healthy foods is just as important as exercise when it comes to my offseason program, so I have a chef who prepares nutritious meals I enjoy. I try to stay away from greasy foods, opting for dishes that fill me up and also provide energy.
For breakfast, I'll typically have an omelet, some type of other egg dish or pancakes, plus turkey bacon or turkey sausage. Lunch might be a bagel with tuna salad, fruit or a chicken wrap. I'll try to mix it up for dinner, but make sure to include some vegetables and maybe grilled chicken or fish. I also have a protein shake after every lifting session and another one at the end of the night.
Summer Fun
I'm looking forward to going on a few vacations this summer. Soon, I'll be going to Hawaii for the first time, and later, I hope to visit my brother in Belgium. I may end up going on a longer European trip and travel to Israel again.
I've always enjoyed going to different countries, where I have the chance to meet a lot of great people, try all kinds of interesting food, learn new languages and just experience an entirely different culture.
Final Thoughts
Thanks to everyone for checking out my blog this season. I hope you have a great summer. Be sure to follow me on Twitter and Instagram for updates throughout the offseason, as well as if you want to hit me up with any questions.
Go Kings!


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Assess reports of spam registrations persisting even with ReCAPTCHA testing enabled.
Assessed; the "stop forum spam" plugin (to be included in OJS 2.4.3) should address it. I couldn't find any obvious weakness in our ReCAPTCHA implementation, yet at least a couple of installations are reporting continuing spam registrations. Suspect either a ReCAPTCHA-beating bot or individual humans.


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