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Chase N. Cashe - Best New Songs, Albums, & Features
Listen to the best new songs and albums from Chase N. Cashe as well as features written by the DJ Booth Staff. Last updated on December 05, 2013
Song: I Can Do That
What are you craving, Booth readers—a fresh cut from Chase N. Cashe? I Can Do That. (If that wasn't your answer, sorry, you're gonna have to fend for yourself.) On his latest promotional single, part of a... More
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Already living a Charmed life, emcee/producer Chase N. Cashe has delivered Heir Waves, a collection of unreleased and new records to officially kick off his 2013 campaign. Included on the free released are... More
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"She is almost like a hippie type of girl."
That's one way of putting it ...
"I am so back and forth about it," the Kendra star said of Lindsay in Playboy, where she'll be channeling Marilyn Monroe. "The one thing that I can say is that in this day and age, if you have a way to make that kind of money, then go ahead."
Mixed, but generally positive feelings from Kendra then.
She does make a valid point. A million dollars for four days of work? That looks pretty good on any balance sheet, even if it means showing the vadge of courage.
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Detectives assigned to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Burglary and Pawn Unit are currently investigating a distraction scheme by a group of individuals targeting elderly residents in Pinellas County.
The suspects approach residents in their homes, request access to the backyard and as one person is distracting the homeowner, other suspects enter the residence and steal their jewelry and cash.
Four incidents have been reported to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office since January 2014. All occurred in South Pinellas County in areas south of State Road 60.
According to investigators, the suspects approach residents in their homes and tell them they are there to inspect a water leak, to check property lines or to trim trees in the backyard. While they are distracting the homeowner, two to three other suspects enter the residence and steal items, such as jewelry and cash. During the schemes, the victims were distracted for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
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Three are white males. One is about 25 to 40 years old with a heavy build and short dirty blonde hair. The second is about age 25, 5 foot 10 inches tall with a slim build, short black hair, brown eyes and scruffy facial hair. A third is about age 50 with a heavy build. Deputies had no description of the female.
During the schemes the suspects used various vehicles, including a dark brown, Ford F150 crew cab with a dark brown topper; small black pickup truck; white pickup truck, two-door, possibly ten years old in decent condition with tree branch debris in the bed; newer white full-size pickup; and a small white car with the trunk open.
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Save Vietnam's Wildlife is honored to announce the launch of our official English website http://www.savevietnamswildlife.org on Wednesday 19th November 2014.
Save Vietnam's Wildlife was established as a national Non-Profit Organisation on July 22nd 2014 and our website showcases what we have been doing. The Vietnamese version will be issued within the next month.
Our website provides an overview of the conservation achievements of Save Vietnam's Wildlife over the last few months and of the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program's in the past several years of which Save Vietnam's Wildlife (SVW) continues to take responsibility for.
Despite threats of habitat loss and the illegal wildlife trade, Save Vietnam's Wildlife is actively engaged in the correct placement of confiscated wildlife. We strive to carry out scientific research increasing the understanding of the requirements for threatened species in the wild and in captivity; educate and train the public and rangers to promote positive perceptions and attitudes towards wildlife conservation; and develop conservation breeding programmes for threatened species to support wild populations. Finally, we're continually evolving our animal welfare standards and practices promoting ideals to zoos and rescue centres across Vietnam.
We are writing to express our deepest thanks for your generous donation and support to The Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program in the past and Save Vietnam's Wildlife in the future. We are excited about what can be achieved with your continued support.
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How do we save the pangolin?
The plight of the pangolin is complex and contains components we don't yet fully understand. Its conservation is a global issue requiring a multi-faceted approach and tackling it should be done sensitively.
Sunda pangolin at Save Vietnam's Wildlife rehabilitation centre, Vietnam. ©E & C Jacquet
The extent of the network involved in pangolin trafficking extends from the opportunistic poacher living near the forest, to the kingpins reaping the benefits of this lucrative business via several middle men and confiscations happen at all stages.
49 live pangolins seized in Vietnam in 2013 © Talk Vietnam
For example as both a source, transit and consumer country, confiscations in Vietnam vary between individuals found at restaurants or markets, to numerous live individuals hidden in vehicles, reaching hundreds of frozen carcasses uncovered at ports.
In order to 'scale up pangolin conservation' the IUCN has produced an action plan to build on the activities already under development. It is broadly separated into four groups: conservation research, pangolin strongholds, demand reduction and policy recommendations. The activities have one of two aims: either preserving numbers or boosting them.
But how many pangolins are there?
Population figures are hard to obtain. Having spent a year and a half living at a field site and more days and nights in the forest than I can count, I have seen a wild pangolin only once.
A wild Sunda pangolin hiding in the branches of a tree. © Louise Fletcher, Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program.
Developing a methodology to achieve this involves accessing long term, large scale camera trap data sets to develop an index useful to track population fluctuations. However, at sites where this isn't already established, camera trapping does not provide the required information in an adequate time frame.
Camera trap photograph of a Sunda pangolin. © Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program, Vietnam
For those species that sleep in modified burrows or dig their own (Chinese and ground pangolin), burrow counts and occupancy offer a method of estimating abundance. However, many species are arboreal or leave little evidence of presence.
More immediately, range size could be used as a method of predicting densities, but this is only suitable in pristine forest, undisturbed by human encroachment like those found in Hong Kong, Brunei and other forests across the island of Southeast Asia.
So how do we preserve them?
Habitat loss and indiscriminate poaching are problems facing the preservation of numerous species globally. Efforts to reduce this with alternative livelihood programs and encouraging ownership and pride among local people towards the biodiversity on their doorstep should be – and are – standard, and often successful, strategies for organisations working on the preservation of any wildlife at a particular site.
Deforestation exposes pangolins who are usually able to move elusively through the undergrowth; draws in neighboring individuals with an initial peak in food accessibility and facilitates access for hunters with dogs and traps. The millions of hectares that plantations operate over provide a platform on which to make a positive impact in saving these species. Urging palm oil companies to commit to creating a corporate policy specifically for the conservation of pangolins are imperative in preserving numbers.
When a 2kg animal sells for 700USD providing a monetary alternative to poaching pangolin is nonsensical, every new plantation creates thousands of poachers alongside it, driving populations down but prices up. Protection and enforcement is the most productive way forward. On a global scale this is taking steps to push all eight species to Appendix 1 of CITES and at regional levels this is working with authorities to uphold the law, close loopholes, prosecute criminals and then let the fear spread.
Now, what drives the price? Demand.
This is the same for rhino horn, ivory and shark fin. There are numerous examples of demand reduction strategies at local, national and international levels-they just don't include pangolin. Engagement of opinion holders and other organisations with the pangolin is a huge step in rapidly changing behavior.
Right, let's boost those numbers.
The pangolin is complex. It is a rare example where demand exists for every part of the animal-meat and scales-for different uses, putting it on a completely different platform to other trafficked animals. There is a huge sense of urgency that needs to be highlighted regarding this species, but this should not lead to rash decisions.The demand is unsustainable and as a species that does not to thrive in captivity. The most effective way of boosting numbers is through rescue, reintroduction and reinforcement of wild populations.
Released trade confiscated Sunda pangolin. © Louise Fletcher, Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program, Vietnam
Here, the key is attention to detail.
In my experience, over 18 months, we have released five individuals. With strategic planning of release locations, considering sex ratios and range overlap, the foundations are laid for nature to take its course and the population to grow. It is these specifics that mean every action will have a measurable impact, yet there are aspects that are often overlooked.
Rehabilitated Sunda pangolin undergoing a health check before release © Louise Fletcher, Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program
Getting them from the condition they arrive in when rescued from the trade to one suitable for survival in the wild is not an easy task. Pangolins can arrive nutritionally stressed and dehydrated often with injuries from traps. They can deteriorate very quickly, within hours.
Two pangolin hang on the left as bush meat. ©African Pangolin Working Group
Those that are confiscated in transit and in large numbers will have been kept in close proximity for a prolonged period of time causing social anxiety for a territorial and solitary species. At wildlife markets contact within and between species may encourage the transmission of diseases, this has led to a strict quarantine procedure in Vietnam that may not be applicable in other range countries where often animals are taken directly from the hands of the poachers swiftly after the animals have been taken from the forest.
The individuals I have experience with were kept in captivity for many years. When released they favored sleeping sites at ground level often re-using the sleeping site for two-three nights in a row. This could represent conditioning from captivity where they slept in the same underground bed box or reminiscent of their natural behaviours – perhaps this preference for sleeping at ground level and staying in the same sleeping site made them easier to catch by poachers. Either way, this knowledge can feed back into refining and modifying the whole process.
In order for implementation to work, select your sites well.
To highlight this, I would like to use the case study of the work done in Vietnam over the past 5 years. After years of developing environmental enrichments, diets and health checks that were suitable for the animals and brought them back from the brink of death after confiscation, five individuals were released in a selected protected area.
The area is known as one of the best protected areas in Vietnam, housing other important species such as the Asian elephant, yellow cheeked gibbon and gaur. We recorded information on where individuals slept and moved to increase our ecological understanding of them. We released them where there was a chance of male, female overlap, but to avoid confrontation with males.
Forest Protection Department staff gaining training in pangolin rehabilitation. ©Louise Fletcher, Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program Vietnam
Through the entirety of the project we worked Forest Protection Staff and local people (to collect food for the animals and build release enclosures) we began to build a sense of ownership and pride and gave them a reason to continue to protect the forest. I remember when we finally managed to persuade the villager who collected food for our animals to come and actually the see the animal he was helping – he couldn't believe what it looked like! We trained the rangers to care for the animals and how to track them after release. We went to schools in the local village and at local universities to talk about the work. I firmly believe if you give them a reason to care and an achievement to be proud of they will flourish.
But don't be naïve – the reason might be money, the achievement might be a status symbol. That's human nature, but channeling it in the right way can have a positive impact and over time attitudes can change.
Over time.
What is imperative is the sense of longevity with this plan. People forget. People move on. Old habits return. The pangolin cannot withstand that. We need to build the momentum of what has already begun. Scaling it up is not about big gestures or one-off statements, it's about commitment, dedication and the sharing of ideas and information on a global scale.
Case Study of our work from one of our donors
Thanks to The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund for their support.
Celebrity endorsement for pangolins
Recently I have been writing proposals to continue fieldwork with pangolins in Vietnam with Save Vietnam's Wildlife (SVW). Throughout this process I am often asked by donors, "but what about demand reduction?" This is a valid point, SVW have included in their plans a community engagement aspect around field sites that we are working at and have just conducted a rapid survey in Hanoi of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) shops and restaurants.
However, demand reduction needs to be tackled at several levels. For example Education for Nature Vietnam (http://envietnam.org/) have the capacity to produce Public Service Announcements in major cities across Vietnam and larger international organisations can encourage national and international celebrities to drive an attitudinal change. By all working together and tackling different audiences we can really begin to make a difference.
However, I also believe that there needs to be an increase in communication between organisations and to bridge the gap between on the ground NGOs, celebrities and large corporations (and am on a bit of a personal mission to try and facilitate this communication). Since starting at Investec Asset Management I have started to see the role large corporations can have in conservation and today I became even more aware of the power of celebrity endorsement.
This morning I met Sharon Kwok, an Asian celebrity, who has worked tirelessly to reduce demand for shark fin, ivory and rhino horn across Hong Kong and in China. As a passionate conservationist she was already convinced that things need to be done to save the pangolin however, she also provided an excellent insight into the psyche of the Chinese and the best way to get your message across.
One of the main issues is that so many people don't know what a pangolin is and for this we need to recruit ambassadors. The more Sharon talks about pangolin publicly, the more people in range countries across Asia will become aware. We can also use her statement supporting pangolin to get the attention of important embassies as well as spread word among other celebrity friends.
This is the start of a great opportunity, but it needs longevity to really make a change and we are busy making plans for our next steps.
Two pangolins rescued in one week
Sunda pangolin are critically endangered, most confiscations are of mammoth numbers of frozen carcasses or scales. When a live one is rescued it is a huge deal. Within the past week, thanks to Education for Nature Vietnam's (ENV) hotline, there have been two reports of live Sunda pangolins. Both of which have been rescued by SVW and taken to the rehabilitation centre in Cuc Phuong.
One was from a restaurant and the other had been kept in a jewellery shop.
As slow breeding, solitary animals their rehabilitation and release needs to be carefully considered and managed. Populations in Vietnam are so low that reinforcement of wild populations is the best hope in creating pangolin hotspots and reviving the population. The hope is that after rehabilitation these animals will form part of the release program at a site where we know pangolins already are. This way we can release them in consideration of sex ratios and to maximise genetic flow within populations.
The confiscations happened almost immediately after the reports were made to ENV and it is brilliant to see the local authorities acting promptly on the tip off. Animals will spend a minimum of four weeks in quarrantine to observe for signs of stressed behaviours and nutrional stress.
The hope is that with ENV's pangolin focussed public service announcement early next year there will be more stories like this.
Owston Civet awareness campaign
As well as pangolins, the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program (CPCP, now known as Save Vietnam's Wildlife, SVW) also work with other small carnivores, one of which is the Owston Civet. Like other terrestrail animals they suffer from the indscriminate snare trapping used by hunters. CPCP has been involved in the Owston's Civet Breeding Program for many years in conjunction with Newquay Zoo.
One of the biggest problems is that people are not able to identify this species and do not know much about it. In order to try and tackle this SVW has produced a calander in Vietnamese that will be distributed among Forest Protection Department rangers. It is packed full of photographs and information to increase awareness. Calanders will be delivered personally and accompanied with presentations to the departments in the protected areas within the Owstons' range.
Please help in the production of these calanders and donate to the cause-the deadline is the end of the month.


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MotorSport Vision
|Jonathan Palmer
John Britten
Peter Ogden
|Fawkham, Longfield, Kent, United Kingdom
MotorSport Vision is one of the world's foremost motorsport organisations, and the leading operator of UK motor racing venues. MSV has a portfolio ranging from major two and four wheel championships to organising the PalmerSport corporate driving event.
MotorSport Vision was founded by John Britten, Sir Peter Ogden and Jonathan Palmer, who won the Formula Two Championship in 1983 and competed in 88 Formula One Grands Prix over the next six years.
MSV is famous for buying Brands Hatch, Oulton Park, Snetterton and Cadwell Park in 2004 and working to modernise their facilities and customer care. Brands Hatch, the former venue for the British Grand Prix, has begun hosting international car racing again - events either joining or back on its calendar include the DTM German touring car championship, the FIA World Touring Car Championship and the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport.
In 2006, MSV formed MotorSport Vision Racing (MSVR), providing a complete car and bike racing organisation capability to the MotorSport Vision group. MSVR organises over 30 events annually across 10 UK circuits. MotorSport Vision's trackday division, Club MSV, has grown to become one of the UK's biggest trackday companies in the past four years and organises novice events up to advanced driver training days. Alongside PalmerSport, MSV also run driving experiences at Brands Hatch and Oulton Park.[1]
MSV also ran the Formula Palmer Audi championship from 1998 to 2010 which advanced the careers of hundreds of young hopefuls, nine of whom have made it all the way to Formula One. In 2008 MSV also acquired the rights to the British Superbike Championship which has already seen the considerable benefits of MSV's commercial, administrative and organisational expertise.
In September 2008 MotorSport Vision won an FIA tender to supply cars and operate the FIA Formula Two Championship, a new international single seater series derived from an FIA initiative to provide young, talented drivers with the opportunity to compete in top-level racing on a competitive budget. The Formula Two cars, like Formula Palmer Audi, were assembled and prepared in a dedicated facility at Bedford Autodrome, also home to PalmerSport and FPA. This category was discontinued after 2010.
One of its founders, John Britten, died on 25 November 2009, after a long period of illness.[2]
Brands Hatch[edit]
In 1986, John Foulston bought Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Snetterton circuits from Grovewood Securities and established the Brands Hatch Leisure (BHL) company. The following year, the company acquired Cadwell Park before Foulston died testing a McLaren IndyCar at Silverstone. Ownership of BHL passed to his wife Mary, but the company was run by John Webb until 1990, when daughter Nicola Foulston took over the running. In that time, Brands Hatch hosted higher-profile series such as Formula 3000 and Superbike World Championship racing. 1988 saw further changes to the circuit layout, with a chicane added at Dingle Dell Corner, while Westfield Bend and Graham Hill Bend were tightened. New pits and a corporate entertainment facility were added in the late-1990s.
In 1999, Foulston announced that Brands Hatch had acquired the rights to the British Grand Prix from 2002.[3] Whilst discussions were ongoing with regards to planning permission to bring the circuit up to F1 requirements, Foulston sold BHL to Octagon Motorsports (a subsidiary of Interpublic) for £120 m.[4] Octagon, however, failed to obtain the necessary planning permission and instead decided to lease Silverstone in order to host the Grand Prix.[5] However, high-profile single-seater racing did return to Brands Hatch in 2003, when a round of the CART series was held at the circuit.[6] Despite attracting around 40,000 spectators[7] the race was not retained for subsequent seasons.
With financial pressures stemming from running the British Grand Prix,[8] Octagon sold off the group of four circuits,[9] including Brands Hatch, to the MotorSport Vision group headed by ex-F1 driver Jonathan Palmer in 2004.[10]
Oulton Park[edit]
After many years of decay, Oulton was given new life when it, along with Brands Hatch, Snetterton and Cadwell Park, was bought by MotorSport Vision. MSV, headed by ex-F1 racer Jonathan Palmer, have completely turned the circuits around, tidying them up and pulling the crowds in.
Oulton Park has always been acknowledged as one of the most picturesque circuits in the UK, and under MSV's guidance big meetings have thrived at the Cheshire track, including the British Touring Car Championship, two rounds of the British Superbike Championship and the Gold Cup classic car meeting dubbed 'the Goodwood of the north'.
In 2007 Oulton park was voted the best UK circuit by British Superbike fans,[11] whilst a BTCC meeting on Sunday 27 July 2008 saw a crowd of 35,000 attend - a record not only for the circuit but the highest crowd at any venue of the BTCC for a decade.[12]
Snetterton has undergone perhaps the most radical transformation of all the MotorSport Vision circuits since being taken over in 2004.
New spectator banking has been added to the track to improve circuit views, whilst the restaurant and toilet facilities have been updated or replaced. A new scrutineering bay has also been added.
Snetterton is well known for being one of the fastest tracks in the UK thanks to its combination of several long straights and relatively few corners. The lap record currently stands at 56.095 seconds, or an average speed of 125.27 mph.
Cadwell Park[edit]
In 1953 the track was lengthened to 1.3 miles (2.1 km), upon the invitation of the 500 cc motorcycle-engined Formula 3 to race in a traditional bike meeting. Around 30,000 spectators attended that particular race. The original track grew to the current 2.25 miles (3.62 km) layout in 1962 and hosted the British F3 series the next May. Some of the bends are named after family members e.g. Mansfield, Charlie and Chris. Cadwell is now considered too narrow for high level car races, although club motorsport associations such as the BARC and 750MC still hold meetings. The layout is ideal for bikes however, with the British Superbike Championship round being the most popular event on the championship's calendar. Several tests and feature clips for the motoring program Fifth Gear have been filmed here.
Bedford Autodrome[edit]
The track, in Thurleigh near Bedford is owned by MotorSport Vision. No official motorsport events are held at the circuit but it is a popular public track day circuit, it is also the home of the Jaguar SlikCat which is used for corporate events and for ride alongs during the track days. It is served by Bedford Aerodrome.
In 2012 MotorSport Vision will host several prestigious international events such as the DTM German touring cars and the revived FIA Formula Two Championship.
Alongside these, MotorSport Vision's circuits will host the British Superbike Championship, British Touring Car Championship, the British F3 and GT championships, and a range of historic events including the Oulton Park Gold Cup.
There will also be numerous bike and car club meetings throughout the year, including the Britcar 'Into The Night' race at Brands Hatch. [13]
British Superbikes[edit]
In 2008 MotorSport Vision took over the responsibility for the organisation and promotion of the British Superbike Championship from Dorna.[14] The 2008 season was MSV's first in charge, and saw Shane Byrne take the title. The championship was screened live by British Eurosport, and highlights were shown later on Channel 4.
Formula Palmer Audi[edit]
Formula Palmer Audi, commonly known as FPA, was founded in 1998 by Jonathan Palmer. The ethos of FPA is to keep costs at a minimum whilst at all times promoting incredibly competitive and professional racing. The series is most famous for producing ex-F1 driver and IndyCar race-winner Justin Wilson and helping the career of triple World Touring Car Champion Andy Priaulx.
In order to keep a level playing field as much as possible, all the Formula Palmer Audi cars are run by a specialist team of FPA mechanics, rather than having separate teams. This concept of a large group of deliberately equalised cars has since been adopted by A1GP.
FPA has recently announced a scholarship prize with the BRDC Stars of Tomorrow KF2 karting championship,[15] and with the newly revived FIA Formula Two Championship,[16] positioning the series as a fantastic intermediary step between karts and top-level single seaters.
FIA Formula Two Championship[edit]
The FIA Formula Two Championship is the revival of the Formula Two series that was highly successful from 1967 to 1985. It will see 24 drivers competing in identical MotorSport Vision-run cars with a 400 bhp Audi engine over 16 rounds.
The FIA's overall concern was that the cost of competing in motor racing at a level to progress directly to Formula One today is so high that it prevents many talented drivers from having the opportunity to participate.
In September 2008 the FIA tender to supply the cars and operate the FIA Formula Two Championship was awarded to MotorSport Vision. Compared to rival series, Formula Two will cost significantly less per season whilst allowing drivers to prove their skill and develop their racecraft in identical vehicles designed by a six man team from WilliamsF1, led by Director of Engineering Patrick Head. The series was marred by the tragic death of Henry Surtees, who died in a fatal accident during a race at Brands Hatch.
MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup[edit]
F3 Cup is a national motor racing series that takes place primarily in the United Kingdom with a small number of events in mainland Europe. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses small single seater Formula Three built after 1980 and before 2007. The championship comprises nine rounds, each with two races. Each race weekend will comprise one 25-minute qualifying session and two 20-minute races.
The 2011 season saw rounds held in England at Snetterton 300 (Two rounds), Donington Park, Brands Hatch Indy, Brands Hatch GP and Oulton Park International. There is one round held in Wales at Anglesey Circuit International and one round in Belgium at Spa Francorchamps. A test drive of a Formula 2 was awarded to the most meritorious driver of the year, which was Aaron Steele.
In 2012, F3 Cup has been awarded championship status, so the F2 prize will be awarded to the driver of any class that has the most points. There is also a team championship for MSA Entrants fielding two or more cars.
BRDC Formula 4 Championship[edit]
Originally operated by the 750 Motor Club, a deal was reached in September 2012 to pass the name onto MotorSport Vision (MSV) to create the new BRDC Formula 4 Championship.
The 2013 season begins at Silverstone Grand Prix circuit on 27/28 April and ends on 28/29 September at Donington Park, a total of eight events with three races at each, all held in the UK.
The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers using identical 2.0-litre cars built by Ralph Firman's RFR company.
- ^ Review of MSV's fleet of driving experience cars
- ^ Personal statement by Jonathan Palmer
- ^ "F1 returns to Brands". BBC News. 1999-05-14. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "The Company File: Brands Hatch takeover". BBC News. 1999-11-09. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "Brands Hatch gives up British GP". GrandPrix.com. 2000-12-03. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ "Champ Car series to do battle at Brands Hatch in 2003". CART.com. 2003-01-09. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "Champ Car World Series Returns From Successful European Swing". SpeedCenter.com. 2003-05-13. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "The problems at Octagon Motorsports". GrandPrix.com. 2002-10-18. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ "Completed acquisition by Motorsport Vision Ltd of Brands Hatch Circuit Ltd & Brands Hatch Leisure Ltd" (PDF). Office of Fair Trading. 2004-05-24. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "Palmer leads Brands Hatch purchase group". GrandPrix.com. 2004-01-05. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ "Oulton Park homepage". MotorSport Vision. 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- ^ Oulton Park's record BTCC attendance
- ^ "MotorSport Vision fixture lists". MotorSport Vision. 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ MSV takes over BSB
- ^ BRDC Stars of Tomorrow announce scholarship prize with FPA
- ^ FPA announce scholarship prize with F2
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Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers violate Senate Rule 23
Yes, Rule 23:
Senate Rule 23
: : : Senate Rule 23. Committee not to be absent. Members of a committee, except a conference committee, may not be absent by reason of their appointment during the sitting of the senate, without special leave.
[am. 2001 S.Res. 2] emphasis mine
I'm a literal type of gal, and "may not" means you absolutely, positively cannot be absent—without taking special leave (maybe they could get a doctor's note).: Here are the past and future committee schedules for February and March 2011.
Will tone-deaf, taxpayer-betraying Democrats Tim Carpenter, Spencer Coggs, Tomothy Cullen, Jon Erpenbach, Dave Hansen, Jim Holperin, Robert Jauch, Chris Larson, Julie Lassa, Mark Miller, Fred Risser, Lena Taylor, Kathleen Vinehout, and Robert Wirch: abide: by the Senate rules that they: adopted in January 2011.: Or will they continue to hold their positions in contempt and be cowards?
Will the Wisconsin Republicans hold the Democrat fleebaggers to the Wisconsin Constitution and flex their majority authority…kinda like the Democrats in the US House did with Rep. Joe Wilson?
These fleebagging Democrats not only took an oath to uphold the Wisconsin Constitution, but also the United States Constitution and could, if they really had serious moxie, enforce what is stated in both: Constitutions:
Article IV, :§7 (of WI document)
: : : Organization of legislature; quorum; compulsory attendance. Section 7. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide. (emphasis mine)
It would be a great day for Wisconsin taxpayers if that "may compel" became a "did compel," because as I have stated before "working families" is code for "union families": and what have the Democrats done for: private-sector families, except regulate and tax their businesses it into oblivion.
Yes, indeed, elections have consequences.: And the GOP is only getting started; it's only: been two months.
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Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and Dissertationshttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/UNTETD/browse/?fq=untl_institution:UNT&start=40&fq=str_degree_discipline:Computer+Science2011-05-04T13:11:57-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and DissertationsA Framework for Analyzing and Optimizing Regional Bio-Emergency Response Plans2011-05-04T13:11:57-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33200/

The presence of naturally occurring and man-made public health threats necessitate the design and implementation of mitigation strategies, such that adequate response is provided in a timely manner. Since multiple variables, such as geographic properties, resource constraints, and government mandated time-frames must be accounted for, computational methods provide the necessary tools to develop contingency response plans while respecting underlying data and assumptions. A typical response scenario involves the placement of points of dispensing (PODs) in the affected geographic region to supply vaccines or medications to the general public. Computational tools aid in the analysis of such response plans, as well as in the strategic placement of PODs, such that feasible response scenarios can be developed. Due to the sensitivity of bio-emergency response plans, geographic information, such as POD locations, must be kept confidential. The generation of synthetic geographic regions allows for the development of emergency response plans on non-sensitive data, as well as for the study of the effects of single geographic parameters. Further, synthetic representations of geographic regions allow for results to be published and evaluated by the scientific community. This dissertation presents methodology for the analysis of bio-emergency response plans, methods for plan optimization, as well as methodology for the generation of synthetic geographic regions.
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Extracting information from a stack of data is a tedious task and the scenario is no different in proteomics. Volumes of research papers are published about study of various proteins in several species, their interactions with other proteins and identification of protein(s) as possible biomarker in causing diseases. It is a challenging task for biologists to keep track of these developments manually by reading through the literatures. Several tools have been developed by computer linguists to assist identification, extraction and hypotheses generation of proteins and protein-protein interactions from biomedical publications and protein databases. However, they are confronted with the challenges of term variation, term ambiguity, access only to abstracts and inconsistencies in time-consuming manual curation of protein and protein-protein interaction repositories. This work attempts to attenuate the challenges by extracting protein-protein interactions in humans and elicit possible interactions using associative rule mining on full text, abstracts and captions from figures available from publicly available biomedical literature databases. Two such databases are used in our study: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and PubMed Central (PMC). A corpus is built using articles based on search terms. A dataset of more than 38,000 protein-protein interactions from the Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) is cross-referenced to validate discovered interactive pairs. A set of an optimal size of possible binary protein-protein interactions is generated to be made available for clinician or biological validation. A significant change in the number of new associations was found by altering the thresholds for support and confidence metrics. This study narrows down the limitations for biologists in keeping pace with discovery of protein-protein interactions via manually reading the literature and their needs to validate each and every possible interaction.
Socioscope: Human Relationship and Behavior Analysis in Mobile Social Networks2011-01-06T06:55:18-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30533/

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Environmental monitoring represents a major application domain for wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, despite significant advances in recent years, there are still many challenging issues to be addressed to exploit the full potential of the emerging WSN technology. In this dissertation, we introduce the design and implementation of low-power wireless sensor networks for long-term, autonomous, and near-real-time environmental monitoring applications. We have developed an out-of-box solution consisting of a suite of software, protocols and algorithms to provide reliable data collection with extremely low power consumption. Two wireless sensor networks based on the proposed solution have been deployed in remote field stations to monitor soil moisture along with other environmental parameters. As parts of the ever-growing environmental monitoring cyberinfrastructure, these networks have been integrated into the Texas Environmental Observatory system for long-term operation. Environmental measurement and network performance results are presented to demonstrate the capability, reliability and energy-efficiency of the network.
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Our generation has experienced one of the most dramatic changes in how society communicates. Today, we have online information on almost any imaginable topic. However, most of this information is available in only a few dozen languages. In this thesis, I explore the use of parallel texts to enable cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) for languages with scarce resources. To build the parallel text I use the Bible. I evaluate different variables and their impact on the resulting CLIR system, specifically: (1) the CLIR results when using different amounts of parallel text; (2) the role of paraphrasing on the quality of the CLIR output; (3) the impact on accuracy when translating the query versus translating the collection of documents; and finally (4) how the results are affected by the use of different dialects. The results show that all these variables have a direct impact on the quality of the CLIR system.
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Non-strict pure functional programming often requires redesigning algorithms and data structures to work more effectively under new constraints of non-strict evaluation and immutable state. Graph drawing algorithms, while numerous and broadly studied, have no presence in the non-strict pure functional programming model. Additionally, there is currently no freely licensed standalone toolkit used to quantitatively analyze aesthetics of graph drawings. This thesis addresses two previously unexplored questions. Can a force-directed graph drawing algorithm be implemented in a non-strict functional language, such as Haskell, and still be practically usable? Can an easily extensible aesthetic measuring tool be implemented in a language such as Haskell and still be practically usable? The focus of the thesis is on implementing one of the simplest force-directed algorithms, that of Fruchterman and Reingold, and comparing its resulting aesthetics to those of a well-known C++ implementation of the same algorithm.
Urban surface characterization using LiDAR and aerial imagery.2010-03-17T11:40:26-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12196/

Many calamities in history like hurricanes, tornado and flooding are proof to the large scale impact they cause to the life and economy. Computer simulation and GIS helps in modeling a real world scenario, which assists in evacuation planning, damage assessment, assistance and reconstruction. For achieving computer simulation and modeling there is a need for accurate classification of ground objects. One of the most significant aspects of this research is that it achieves improved classification for regions within which light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has low spatial resolution. This thesis describes a method for accurate classification of bare ground, water body, roads, vegetation, and structures using LiDAR data and aerial Infrared imagery. The most basic step for any terrain modeling application is filtering which is classification of ground and non-ground points. We present an integrated systematic method that makes classification of terrain and non-terrain points effective. Our filtering method uses the geometric feature of the triangle meshes created from LiDAR samples and calculate the confidence for every point. Geometric homogenous blocks and confidence are derived from TIN model and gridded LiDAR samples. The results from two representations are used in a classifier to determine if the block belongs ground or otherwise. Another important step is detection of water body, which is based on the LiDAR sample density of the region. Objects like tress and bare ground are characterized by the geometric features present in the LiDAR and the color features in the infrared imagery. These features are fed into a SVM classifier which detects bare-ground in the given region. Similarly trees are extracted using another trained SVM classifier. Once we obtain bare-grounds and trees, roads are extracted by removing the bare grounds. Structures are identified by the properties of non-ground segments. Experiments were conducted using LiDAR samples and Infrared imagery from the city of New Orleans. We evaluated the influence of different parameters to the classification. Water bodies were extracted successfully using density measures. Experiments showed that fusion of geometric properties and confidence levels resulted into efficient classification of ground and non-ground regions. Classification of vegetation using SVM was promising and effective using the features like height variation, HSV, angle etc. It is demonstrated that our methods successfully classified the region by using LiDAR data in a complex urban area with high-rise buildings.


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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cypriot businesses were under increasing strain to keep running on Tuesday after financial authorities stretched the country's bank closure into a second week amid fears that depositors will rush to drain their accounts.
Cyrpus's central bank governor, Panicos Demetriades, said "superhuman efforts are being made" to open banks on Thursday.
"Temporary" restrictions will be imposed on financial transactions once the banks do, he said, but would not specify what those restrictions would be or how long they would be in place for.
"We have to restore the public's trust in banks," he said.
All but two of the country's largest lenders had been due to reopen Tuesday, after being shut since March 16 to stop savers from withdrawing all their money from the banks while politicians figured out how to raise the funds necessary for Cyprus to qualify for an international bailout.
However, the central bank made a surprise reversal just before midnight, announcing all banks would remain closed until Thursday.
The original idea had been not to impose restrictions if the banks opened Tuesday, Demetriades said, "but now we're obligated to do so" because as each day goes by, more people would want to pull their money out.
"We have to all understand that we live in very critical times, officials of the government and the central bank are working day and night," he said.
Under the deal for a 10 billion euro ($12.9 billion) rescue clinched in Brussels early Monday, Cyprus agreed to slash its oversized banking sector and inflict hefty losses on large depositors in troubled banks.
The bulk of the funds will be raised by forcing losses on accounts of more than 100,000 euros ($129,000) in the country's second- largest lender, Laiki, with the remainder coming from tax increases and privatizations.
The bank will be dissolved immediately into a so-called bad bank containing its uninsured deposits and toxic assets, with the guaranteed deposits being transferred to the nation's biggest lender, Bank of Cyprus.
Deposits at Bank of Cyprus above 100,000 euros will be frozen until it becomes clear whether or to what extent they will also be forced to take losses. Those funds will eventually be converted into bank shares.
A top European Central Bank official, Benoit Coeure, who sits on the bank's six-member executive board, told France's Europe 1 Tuesday that the plan to keep the banks closed was sensible as "there is still a lot of work to do on the ground."
Nonetheless businesses have already been feeling the brunt of the cash crunch, unable to pay salaries and suppliers as Cypriots has slashed spending to keep as much money on them in light of all the uncertainty surrounding the banks.
The banks' closure has been felt in the country's important shipping industry, which contributes about 5 percent or 800 million euros ($1 billion) to the economy.
Cyprus ranks 10th in the world in terms of the number if ocean-going vessels flying its flag, and it in the top five of countries with the largest number of ship management companies.
Other businesses have also been hammered by the bank closures as they find themselves unable to pay suppliers or fulfill orders.