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Laguna man pleads guilty to federal child sex abuse offense
ALBUQUERQUE -- Earlier today, Raymond Joseph Martin, 62, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact before Chief United States Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi under a plea agreement with the United States Attorney's Office. Specifically, Martin pled guilty to count one of a three-count indictment charging him with knowingly engaging in sexual contact with a female child who had not attained the age of twelve by touching her genitalia. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Martin will receive a sentence of 97-months imprisonment to be followed by a minimum five-year term of supervised release. Martin also will be required to register as a sex offender. Martin was remanded into the custody of the United States Marshals Service after he entered his guilty plea.
According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, on February 12, 2010, the Pueblo of Laguna Police Department initiated an investigation into allegations that Martin had sexually abused his ten year old granddaughter within the boundaries of the Pueblo of Laguna, and referred the investigation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on February 23, 2010. The complaint alleges that, during a safe-house interview on March 4, 2010, the granddaughter disclosed that Martin had touched her genitals on numerous occasions. During an interview with special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on April 2, 2010, Martin admitted touching his granddaughter's genitals, both directly and through her clothing, on several occasions when the child was eight to ten years old.
In his plea agreement, Martin admitted that, between December 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, he knowingly engaged in sexual contact with a minor child who had not attained the age of twelve. Martin further admitted to touching the child's genitals directly, and not through her clothing, and that he did so to arouse and gratify his own sexual desire.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of the Pueblo of Laguna Police Department, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Shana B. Pennington.
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This week in the NBA, two perennial All-Star players returned for the first time to the home arenas of the franchises that originally drafted them. On Monday, Dwight Howard paid his first visit as an opposing player to the Amway Center, where he spent the first eight seasons of his career playing for the Orlando Magic. Two days later, Carmelo Anthony suited up for the first time in the away locker room at the Pepsi Center, where he led the Denver Nuggets to the playoffs for seven years before leaving midway through his eighth. Needless to say, upon their respective returns to the buildings they once considered their home offices, neither player was treated warmly
Fan booing, like many aspects of fan-player relations, has gone far too unmediated for far too long. Fans boo everything. They boo opposing players they don't like. They boo referees who make the wrong calls, or take too long to make the right calls, or who make the right calls in a timely fashion, but ones detrimental to their home team. Fans will even boo their own team for just about any reason — team not playing well enough, team not playing hard enough, team not playing entertainingly enough, team not making a concerted enough effort to win fans free tacos. It is, at times, extremely ridiculous.
I don't mean to suggest that booing should be outlawed — freedom of individual and collective self-expression is one of the hallmarks of the sports spectator experience, and just about all of these types of boos have their place. (Well, maybe not the taco bit, but I already covered that elsewhere.) But we need rules about these things, spoken guidelines that let fans know when booing is and is not acceptable. Otherwise players and teams end up getting booed at inappropriate, inopportune times, souring player-fan relations and creating bad blood where there need not be.
Fan booing in its totality is far too wide a topic to be handled in one article, so I'd like to focus on the more topical aspect, that of the once-beloved home team hero coming back in some sort of disgrace. Was it OK for Magic and Nuggets fans to boo Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony? Or should the good times those players once shared with their respective franchises have outweighed the discord since created by their exits? Here's how I see the scenarios breaking down, first the qualifying ones, then the disqualifying ones:
1. Player caused distraction by demanding a trade, for not entirely basketball-related reasons.
The most typical scenario for fan booing, and the one that Howard and Anthony both more or less found themselves in. Obviously, if a player wants out in order to play with superstar friends or gain greater exposure playing in a big market, as appeared to be a priority for both of those guys, that's just about the biggest snub one can face as a home fan. Especially if it comes after an endless will-they-or-won't-they saga, as happened with both the Melodrama and the Dwightmare. It's textbook booing, and it's hard to argue with.
2. Player forced trade with either purposefully or ignorantly destructive behavior.
If a player acts so poorly — either dogging it in games, skipping practices and refusing to play through minor and/or suspicious injury, or by doing something really stupid like calling a teammate a gay slur or picking a fight with an equipment manager — that the team has no other recourse but to get rid of the guy, that's obviously fair game for booing upon the player's return. (Kings fans are about two incidents away from broaching this one with DeMarcus Cousins, and you can't imagine they'll have much self-imposed decency when he makes his eventual comeback.)
3. Player left franchise in free agency, going to a lesser team for financial or market-based reasons.
This is a little bit of a greyer area, since of course if the player is one worth booing and he found a better offer elsewhere, chances are pretty good the home team low-balled the guy a little. This is more applicable for situations where a player says (with words or actions) something like "I'm sick of playing in Oklahoma City, and Dallas made me about as good an offer, so I'll go there instead." It's not as destructive as demanding an in-season trade, but it can be just as hurtful.
4. Player left franchise in either trade or free agency, making pointedly disparaging remarks about city or fan base on way out.
This requires a greater offense than Chris Bosh complaining about Toronto cable, but if a player was to complain about how boring the city he was leaving was, or to call their fan base hicks or something, that'd be a great enough affront to make booing permissible. Complaining about the franchise itself is OK, as long as you don't cross certain lines, most of which Charles Barkley probably crossed at some point or another after leaving Philadelphia and Phoenix.
5. Player left franchise in free agency, in a particularly public and humiliating manner.
May as well call this the LeBron James rule. Needs no explanation.
1. Player merely failed to live up to expectation of talent or contract.
Basically just a "don't boo for no good reason" rule. It drove me nuts when Sixer fans booed Andre Iguodala upon his return to Philly. He was basically a great player for the Sixers, despite the fact that his teams never won a ton, and aside from making some minorly insulting comments about Philly fans (which he probably didn't mean to be insulting and arguably even meant as a compliment), he was generally a well-behaved teammate and good citizen. Basically, Iguodala was getting booed for getting paid a lot and not being as good as Sixer fans wanted him to be. That's not cool.
2. Player left in free agency to go to a better team.
If winning is a player's primary motivation for leaving in free agency, and they don't do the leaving in a particularly douche-y manner, this can't be reason enough to boo. If LeBron had quietly signed a contract with the Heat, after thanking the Cavs fans for their support but saying he felt he had a better chance to win in Miami, then he should have been able to return to Quicken Loans Arena without much animosity. It probably wouldn't have worked out like that, but it would have been just for a player who put in a good amount of time in Cleveland and really didn't owe them anything further.
3. Player failed to play due to injury before being traded or signing a fair contract elsewhere.
May as well call this the Andrew Bynum rule, and you can bet Sixer fans will thoroughly ignore it upon Bynum's return if he signs elsewhere next summer.
1. Player won a championship with team before leaving.
Championships are so hallowed in the NBA — hell, only eight separate franchises have won one in the last 30 seasons — that being a key part in bringing a franchise one should, I believe, give you a lifetime pass from being booed in that home arena. Yeah, it might hurt Celtics fans that Ray Allen left to play with the team that represents their most hated in-conference rival, but if not for him, the C's probably still wouldn't have won a championship since 1986. Feel like that's gotta mean something, dammit.
2. Player played 10 years or more with team before engineering exit.
This rule is to protect players like Kevin Garnett, who play for over a decade with a franchise that's probably not going to get them the pieces needed to seriously contend for a championship while the player is still in something resembling their prime. It's probably not fair for fans to expect them to want it stay in their small market forever when it's just not gonna happen there, and the players probably don't deserve to be so punished for coming to that conclusion. Once you've hit 10 years of service time — more than two full max contracts — your faithfulness to the franchise should be unquestioned.
3. Player was badly mistreated by management or ownership before engineering exit.
May as well call this the Donald Sterling rule.
So yeah, no titles, no decade of service, no ownership abuse (unless you count the Gilbert Arenas trade), so booing is still a go for Melo and Dwight in Denver and Orlando. A little sad, considering both players were easily among the five greatest players in the history of their respective franchises, but there probably have to be some consequences for such selfish behavior, and fan booing seems a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.
Still, be judicious these next few seasons, Kevin Love.


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14th October 2010, 01:00 AM #1
How to transfer Dell laptop warranty with out previous owners name
A lot of us buy laptops off eBay or Craigslist, and we don't get the sellers name, or the seller isn't the original buyer. If it has any warranty left, you definitely want it in your name, so you can use if your Dell unfortunately breaks down. When trying to transfer the warranty with out the previous owners name, Dell will give you grief. After trying to transfer the warranty of my M1330 with out the previous owners name, I found out how to do it.
When I called Dell they gave me the run around(Duh its Dell), so I tried online chat. Once they found out my problem they gave me the same number I had already tried calling. After research, I found this link to online transfer.
Transfer Warranty
In the previous owner name slot just put "No Information" in the first and last name boxes and in the zip code box(no quotes).
Add your info, the service tag, and express service code, click submit. I tried it twice today and now I have a brand new motherboard being sent for my M1330. It worked for me, and hopefully works for you.
If the above doesn't work:
Try this: https://www.onlineregister.com/dell/
International Warranty Transfer
Here's the International Warranty Transfer Form. I haven't used it, but my guess would be enter "No Information" in the owners name and all that, then enter the country it was purchased in. If you don't know what country it was purchased in, your probably out of luck.
International Form: http://support.dell.com/support/topi...dhs&redirect=1
NEW: You have to enter "No Information" in the zip code box.Last edited by Nick; 19th July 2012 at 06:33 PM.
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14th October 2010, 02:58 AM #2
Re: How to transfer Dell laptop warranty with out previous owners name
I've found that it works "best" if you actually load it in IE and have the site "validate" your service tag.
Sometimes it does take a couple days to go through, even if it tells you that the tag has been successfully transferred. One rep has told me that the people on the other end manually enter the info... dunno how much of that is BS.n o n s e n s e - w a r s . c o m
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14th October 2010, 11:31 AM #3
Re: How to transfer Dell laptop warranty with out previous owners name
I just tried this on got this message
""We're sorry, we are unable to process your request immediately. We are forwarding your request to the proper Dell organization. Please allow 10-15 business days for processing. Thank you for choosing Dell."
it didn't really load another page, this just appeared on top of the current page.
is this normal? 10-15 days?!Samsung Series 3, 11.6", i3, 8GB, Win 7 64, 128GB SSD
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Re: How to transfer Dell laptop warranty with out previous owners name
So they're just sending you the motherboard and not sending a tech out to do the work or requiring you to send it in? If this is true I'll bet there are some scammers on ebay contacting people with Dell laptops for sale and asking for the service tag and code and then trying to transfer the warranty to their name and then scamming Dell to send extra parts to them. I've sold Dell laptops on eBay and it's assured that somebody will ask you for service tag info and insist they just want to verify the warranty.
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18th October 2010, 10:28 AM #9
Re: How to transfer Dell laptop warranty with out previous owners name
my request was denied...I didn't enter the express code but I don't think that matters.
I also spoke to someone on the chat and he couldn't do it himself. Today I have to call again.Samsung Series 3, 11.6", i3, 8GB, Win 7 64, 128GB SSD
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Oh, Aerosmith. We've waited. And waited. And for this?
Turns out Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Co. have returned with music from the same old dimension — the slickster 1980s. We were hoping, with the return of classic-era producer Jack Douglas, for something a little rangier, something with a little more grime. You were, too? Dream on!
Our disappointment there, however, was quickly assuaged by a pair of terrific reissues from Creedence Clearwater Revival and Queen. First, the CCR Essential set did a good job of blending in some lesser-knowns amongst the old tried-and-true hits. Then, there was Queen — in all of its post-Live Aid glory before 80,000 screaming fans — for the amazing new concert film Hungarian Rhapsody.
Jazz more your thing? We've got not one, but two two releases from Jon Irabagon — and, check it out, they couldn't be more different. There's also a spiritual turn from Eric Person, an alum of the Chico Hamilton and Dave Holland Bands; new stuff from David Gilmore (no, not the Pink Floyd one; the jazz one); and a great new effort from Caroline Davis.
Pop and dance music? Duncan "Barely Breathing" Sheik is your guy.
Singer-songwriter vibe? Paul Kelly has his first new music out in five long years.
There's lots and lots more, too. So, we best get moving …
AEROSMITH – MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION! (POP/ROCK): I'm a huge fan, but the truth is Another Dimension kinda sucks. I was hoping for the revitalized Aerosmith. Jack Douglas, producer of the band's best records, was back on board. They'd had 11 years to write it. I'd hoped the swagger would be back. At times there are flashes of it, but more often than not, it sounds like the same overproduced commercial claptrap they've been trotting out for a long, long time. (More here.) — Fred Phillips
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CAROLINE DAVIS QUARTET – LIVE WORK AND PLAY (JAZZ): It's virtually impossible for any jazz saxophonist to escape the overpowering influence of John Coltrane, and Davis makes some nods to the spirituality and natural beauty of his transcendent, 60s style, but on "Kowtow" she puts her own touch to it with a more contemporary styled chorus. "Craftsmanship And Emptiness, For Rumi" also recalls 'Trane, but more because of Cunningham's Elvin Jones gait. The melody itself is emblematic of Davis' ability to build one that's esoteric and alluring at once. Allemana's simple, uncluttered single lines are just right for the song, too. (More here.) — S. Victor Aaron
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – ULTIMATE: GREATEST HITS AND ALL-TIME CLASSICS (POP/ROCK): This sprawling 52-song set features every one of their remarkable string of hits between 1968-72. Since their split, however, those songs have found a home in countless compilations. There hardly seems a need for yet another. Thankfully, Ultimate Creedence spends as much time reiterating the necessary but familiar favorites as it does seeking out lesser-known album cuts and tasty live versions. That enlivens this 3-CD set, as the hits are not only contextualized but are in some instances born anew within their fresh musical contexts. (More here.) — Nick DeRiso
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DAVID GILMORE – NUMEROLOGY: LIVE AT JAZZ STANDARD (JAZZ): This title reflects Gilmore quest to musically explore ancient mathematician Pythagoras' principle that the numbers 1 to 9 represent the "universal principles and progressive cycles in life." But Gilmore didn't just author the concept, for this record he performed it live, at the Jazz Standard in NYC, and with an incredible band. McBride, Watts and Acuña return, joined by Luis Perdomo (piano), Mino Cinelu (percussion) and Miguel Zenón (alto sax). Combined with Gilmore's own guitar abilities, which is heady, diverse, fluid and discriminating, and there's no way this record can fail. And, of course, it doesn't. (More here.) — S. Victor Aaron
Doug Sahm – The Last Real Texas Blues Band Live In Stockholm (Blues)
DUNCAN SHEIK – COVERS EIGHTIES REMIXED (POP/ROCK): Former 1990s one-hit-wonder Duncan Sheik blows up the sleepy atmospheres that doomed last summer's Covers Eighties, pumping some new life into the upbeat numbers — but, even more interestingly, completely enlivening the slower songs. For instance, Tears for Fears' "Shout," remixed for this project by Chi Duly and featuring Rachael Yamagata, becomes a grinding beast. Still, Covers Eighties Remixed would rise or fall with the way it approached the medium tempo songs. There's a fine line, after all, between ineffable, cerulean beauty and a somnolent drone. The good news is, Sheik's army of mixing-board geeks give the rest of the album just enough gooses and jabs, too. (More here.) — Nick DeRiso
Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden and Jan Garbarek – Magico: Carta De Amor (Jazz)
Eric Bibb – Brothers in Bamako (Blues)
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ERIC PERSON – THOUGHTS ON GOD (JAZZ): Eric Person, a longtime former sideman with Chico Hamilton and Dave Holland, achieves the kind of musical transcendence required of a project with such an overtly religious theme. At the same time, the aural joys found throughout Thoughts on God are such that listeners don't have to focus on its spirituality in order to have a richly rewarding experience with the album. The complexities, and deep emotional resonance, of the album are indicative of just how much work Person has put into this. In fact, the saxophonist has been at work constructing this song cycle off and on since back in 1984. That gives Thoughts on God a sense of valedictory wonder, as Person and Co. touch on every corner of the tradition. (More here.) — Nick DeRiso
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JON IRABAGON – I DON'T HEAR NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES VOL. 2: APPALACHIAN HAZE; UNHINGED (JAZZ): There's a bit of irony — probably intended — that of the pair of albums coming this week by Irabagon, the one that's called Unhinged is much less so of the two (that would be the punk/free jazz thrill ride entitled I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues, Volume 2: Appalachian Haze). For his new, second Outright! album, Irabagon doesn't go where he dared to tread with Blues, but he makes just about every other edgy jazz stop on this trip through many styles that he's got a good grasp on. All tracks are held together by a spunky attitude and daring that typifies his discography as a whole. (More here.) — S. Victor Aaron
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PAUL KELLY – SPRING AND FALL (FOLK) It's all well and good, these love songs from Paul Kelly. But then, maybe inevitably, it all goes to shit — and that's when Spring and Fall starts to get good. So good, in fact, that the album's first nine songs end up taking on a deeper complexity, a reflected new meaning. Knowing where Kelly is headed ends up imbuing his initial sense of joy with all of this portent. Kelly's new album is in fact a dramatically complete rumination on the verities of passion, from its flushed-cheek flirts to its blindingly sensual newness, to its comfy regularity, to its sometimes sad, sad finale. (More here.) — Nick DeRiso
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QUEEN – HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: LIVE IN BUDAPEST (POP/ROCK): With Freddie Mercury gone for some two decades, it's easy to forget Queen's power and majesty — its essentially new amalgam of power pop, metal, and eye-popping theatrics. The sense of loss surrounding this thunderous concert, too, is simply staggering. Hungarian Rhapsody: Live in Budapest, a new concert film from 1986, starts with this grinding, energetic take on "One Vision" and continues through a hit-strewn setlist that eventually finds Mercury wearing a king's cape and crown for "We Are the Champions." That basically says it all, right? (More here.) — Nick DeRiso
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G151 EDWARD BAKER: farmer; settled on the south side of "Baker's Hill", Saugus (then Lynn), Mass., 1630; undoubtedly came in the fleet under Gov. Winthrop; admitted a Freeman, 1638; m. Joan (d. 1693); d. 1687. Joseph: m. Ruth Holton, 1662; he and eldest son, Joseph, killed by Indians, 1675; had five ch. John: b. 1645;


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Daniel Boulud's Grilled Swordfish -page2
By Daniel Boulud
Serves 4
½ tsp. chile powder
½ tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. ground coriander
1 tsp. ground allspice
Juice of 3 limes
1 cup olive oil
4 8 oz. swordfish steaks
Salt, as needed
In a small, dry sauté pan, toast the spices over medium heat. Stir in the lime juice and set aside to cool for 5 minutes. Whisk in the olive oil. Place the swordfish in a shallow dish and coat with the mixture. Marinate, covered, in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
When ready to serve, preheat a grill to high. Sprinkle salt on both sides of the fish. Grill until well marked and just cooked through, about 3 minutes on each side.
Spiced Sweet Potatoes
2 T olive oil
2 T honey
Juice of 1 lime
½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. ground ginger
¼ tsp. chile powder
⅛ tsp. ground allspice
1½ tsp. salt
3 lb. sweet potatoes, peeled, trimmed, and cut into ½-inch pieces
Preheat the oven to 400°F. In a large bowl, whisk together the olive oil, honey, lime juice, spices, and salt. Add the sweet potatoes and toss to coat.
Spread the potatoes on a foil-lined baking sheet in a single layer. Roast, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender and caramelized, about 30 minutes.
Sauce Chien and Mango Salad
2 Scotch bonnet or habanero chiles, seeds and ribs removed*
1 small onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 bunch cilantro, leaves picked, rinsed, and patted dry
Juice of 3 limes
3/4 cup olive oil
2 Roma tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and finely diced
2 ripe mangoes, peeled and julienned
2 red bell peppers, thinly sliced
2 yellow bell peppers, thinly sliced
Place the chiles, onion, garlic, and half the cilantro leaves in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Transfer to a bowl and whisk in the lime juice, olive oil, and tomatoes. Season with salt to taste.
In another bowl, toss the mangoes and peppers with the remaining cilantro and one-third of the sauce; season with salt if needed.
Top each swordfish steak with some of the mango salad, and serve with the potatoes and remaining sauce chien on the side.
*Be sure to wash your hands and cutting board thoroughly after trimming the chiles, and keep their natural oils away from your face.


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The performance of every public school in Arizona gets judged under two sets of standards: the state system (AZ Learns) and the federal (No Child Left Behind). Under the federal system, schools failing to make yearly progress over a prolonged period of time face sanctions such as paying for private tutoring and even closure and reconstitution with a new staff.
Arizona school administrators need not worry about any of that too much, however, as the powers that be have rigged the game in their favor.
Previously, we have written about AIMS suffering the largest dummy down in the country. We have also documented that Arizona's version of the Terra Nova exam produces entirely implausible results. Now a recent study by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation shows that state policymakers have taken further steps to take the bite out of No Child Left Behind.
"Accountability Illusion" chose 18 elementary and 18 middle schools from around the country, and applied the varying No Child Left Behind accountability rules of 28 different states to see which schools would make "Adequate Yearly Progress" under which set of rules.
They were trying to figure out which states jimmied the details to make it easier to meet AYP. They found that seemingly minute details like how many students were required to make up a subgroup and adopted "error margins" make a big, big difference.
Fordham determined Arizona had the second-lowest overall standards of the 28 states studied.
Arizona's student testing accountability system is profoundly off track. We have a dummied down AIMS test, an obviously flawed version of the Terra Nova, and a system of accountability under No Child Left behind that favors the school system's interest in the status quo over the public's interest in transparency. State lawmakers should become far more aggressive in guaranteeing a quality system of transparent student testing.
Dr. Matthew Ladner is vice president for research at the Goldwater Institute.
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Thomas B. Fordham Institute: Accountability Illusion
Tucson Citizen: Az test results reported with rose-colored glasses


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Washburn Leads Scorers in Orange & White Scrimmage
POSTED: Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 8:27pm
UPDATED: Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 9:35pm
Malcolm Moore's three-point play with 3:03 remaining broke a 61-61 tie and propelled the Blue to a 72-64 win over the Orange at the annual UTEP Basketball preseason scrimmage on Saturday in the Haskins Center.
Moore, a senior forward who missed most of last season with a torn ACL, made 6-of-9 shots and 5-of-7 free throws to finish with 17 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. He was one of four Blue players in double figure scoring as Julian Washburn collected 19 points, Konner Tucker 18 and John Bohannon 12.
The Orange also had four double-figure scorers led by freshman Chris Washburn (16 points). Jacques Streeter added 14 points, Jalen Ragland 12 and Twymond Howard 11.
"I like the fact that Malcolm Moore rebounded. We were a poor rebounding team [last year]," UTEP coach Tim Floyd said. "It looked like Konner Tucker was a fifth-year guy. He looked comfortable out there. Julian Washburn also looked comfortable. I thought as the game went on, we kind of got out of our stance and it kind of became like an NBA All-Star game with the dog and pony show late. But by and large I thought there were some good things."
For the second straight year, the scrimmage drew a crowd of approximately 2,000 fans.
Neither team led by more than four points in the second half until Moore's three-point play jump-started a game-ending 11-3 run for the Blue squad.
The largest lead in the first half was six points for the Blue, which went ahead 19-13 on a Julian Washburn dunk with 9:21 on the clock. The Orange rallied to close the gap to 31-29 at the midway point.
The Blue scored 22 points off 13 Orange turnovers and outscored the Orange 10-3 at the foul line. Both teams shot well, with the Orange hitting 53.8 percent from the field to the Blue's 48.3.
Floyd said the Miners' defensive intensity wasn't where it needs to be.
"I think you'll start seeing it in our exhibition game because guys are going to start coming out for the errors that you saw," he said. "They'll just come out and come back in, come out and come back in. Those are the things that we'll have to learn when we start watching film [on the scrimmage] tomorrow."
Blue outrebounded the Orange 34-29. Cedrick Lang led the Orange with eight boards.
Five UTEP players were in the game for the full 40 minutes – C.J. Cooper, Howard, Ragland, Streeter and Tucker.
"By and large, we didn't sustain effort for long periods of time. I expected that because we didn't have a lot of subs," Floyd said. "We're not in great condition right now."
The Miners will open the season as part of an exhibition doubleheader with the women's team on Saturday, Nov. 3. The women will take on St. Mary's (Texas) at 4:30 pm with the men battling Southeastern Oklahoma State at 7. Men's basketball season tickets, starting at $160, are on sale now by calling 747-6150.


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Tim Tebow's arrival best-case scenario for Sanchez
By Cecilio's Scribe on Mar 24, 2012 with Comments 2
Mark Sanchez couldn't ask for anything more than Tim Tebow's arrival in New York. No, I am not joking. There could not be a better scenario for the Sanchize to prove he's the man for Gang Green (or not) once and for all. Enough with the coddling. Let's drop the talk about "feelings." This is a professional game. You need to prove you're the man by performing on the field. This is the season for Sanchez to do that. And, if you needed any sort of push, what could be more motivating than this one?
In a sense, this is as safe a scenario as could present itself for Sanchez. After two promising seasons complete with two AFC Championship appearances, the play of the Jets signal caller fell off last year. This was no longer the guy as cool as the other side of the pillow chomping down a hot dog on the Oakland sideline. He lacked confidence, and it showed.
The Jets were perfectly clear in their intention to bring in a backup quarterback to "push" Sanchez this off-season. So, this is no surprise. By bringing in Tebow, the Jets have provided an extra nudge that may come more from rhetoric than reality. Of the quarterbacks on the market, Tebow's credentials are not particularly impressive when one considers the goal was to add a proven back-up that could compete with Sanchez and be a serviceable starter. Despite his heroics in Denver, Tebow has much to prove that he is indeed even that.
Tebow is an entirely different kind of player. And I harbor hopes that he can be a very good one. But many would argue his quarterback distinction itself is suspect. Sanchez has the chance to immediately pigeonhole Tebow as exactly what so many believe him to be — a versatile, tremendously talented athlete and excellent football player who can help a team by running, blocking, catching and, on rare occasions, throwing the football. Should Sanchez prove up the task, he will answer all the critics in the loudest manner possible. Murmurs of his self-confidence will be obliterated if he were to succeed and grow with the overwhelming shadow of the media monument that is Tim Tebow in town.
Sanchez already had much to prove. Now, he's got the perfect scenario to establish his worth and squash any doubts. It's a perfect storm to prove he's the passer some think he can be, the leader many want him to be (by bringing together powerful locker room forces) and the professional that so many doubt he can become. We'll see if he's up to the task. He can thank Tim Tebow for setting the stage.
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About the Author: Cecilio's Scribe is the founder of The Legend of Cecilio Guante and a generally pessimistic fan of the Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers. A fine NYC-based gentlemen who hones his marketing skills as his primary trade by day. Husband, chef, father of a newborn and after-hours blogger by night. Proud alum of the mighty Big Red of Cornell. University. Hot sauce devotee. Staunch protester of the continued wussifcation of American sports. Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick.
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WI and curse are hosting them on their own sites because they make money from other people's work - just what they're accusing wowmatrix of.
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Feb 7th 2009 8:34PM It's surprisingly amusant how much you yourself are torn between hardcore raiding and casual guilds.
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DHAKA, Monday, 26 May 2014
Media Release
Former Zimbabwe Test captain Heath Streak has been appointed Specialist Bowling Coach of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Streak, 40, is one of Zimbabwe's most acclaimed cricketers and had also performed the role of bowling coach of the national team after his retirement. He is Zimbabwe's all-time leading all-rounder with 4933 runs and 455 wickets in international cricket.
Announcing the appointment of the specialist bowling coach BCB's media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said: "Heath Streak's experience and record speaks for him. He has played 65 Tests matches and 189 ODIs and as a coach he has worked with some top bowling coaches in the international arena. He has told us that coaching was his passion and we really appreciate that kind of desire."
Yunus also informed that Streak has agreed a two-year term with the BCB during which he will commit 450 days based on the schedule of the Bangladesh team. He will primarily work with the national side and is expected in Dhaka in the first week of June.
Streak, who is currently in Bulawayo, said he was relishing the prospect of working with the Bangladesh team: " I look forward to the challenge of working with the Tigers and thank BCB for the opportunity.
'It is exciting for me to be back into the International coaching arena again. It is my passion to coach at an elite level and I hope I can bring my experience as a former player and coach to the Bangladeshi bowlers.
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And Colibri isn't alone in thinking that Amendment 64 doesn't go far enough. Even Tvert admits he'd like to see a proposal that opens up Colorado to total unregulated legalization of cannabis, but that won't happen overnight. In the meantime, he points out that the one-ounce limits in Amendment 64 are merely a baseline and can be increased by state statute. "The notion that it's better to keep marijuana 100 percent illegal for non-medical use because we'd like it to be 100 percent legal without any sort of regulation is counterproductive and irrational," he says.
Last week, the New York-based Marijuana Arrest Research Project released data showing that police in Colorado made more than 210,000 arrests for marijuana possession between 1986 and 2010, which put it right in the middle of all the states for pot arrest rates.
A disproportionate number of those arrests involved minorities. Although statistically whites use more marijuana than any other racial group, Hispanic tokers are almost twice as likely to be arrested — and African-Americans are more than three times as likely. The study made a point of noting that only 3.8 percent of all Colorado residents are black.
A second study by Drug Science.org based on the same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program data indicates that the arrest rates for possession in Colorado hovered between 10,000 and 12,000 in recent years — arrests that Amendment 64 backers say would end if their bill passes. As neither study breaks down the possession arrests by amount, though, critics say that proponents are being misleading when they say that arrests would be eliminated, since the amendment would only legalize an ounce for personal possession. But 64's backers counter that legal pot shops will eliminate the need for mid-level pot dealers, who are now getting busted for storing up several ounces at a time to sell off.
As for Colorado's decriminalization of up to two ounces? The MARP study points out that a court appearance is mandatory, and missing it could mean up to a $500 fine and six months in jail. "It would be a mistake to think that these arrests do not carry significant consequences for the thousands of mostly young Coloradans who go through the arrest, prosecution, and sentencing process every year," the report concludes.
Although both Oregon and Washington state also have marijuana legalization measures on the ballot, Colorado's looks like it might have the best chance of passing, with polls in late October showing voters equally divided.
What would happen if Amendment 64 is approved?
Even though the amendment would be in the Colorado Constitution, it would not supersede the federal Controlled Substances Act, nor make marijuana in any way legal at the federal level. Getting popped federally for cultivation could still net a quarter-million dollars in fines and up to five years in prison. But 64 would create a buffer for use and possession of limited amounts in Colorado: State police would not be able to cite or arrest anyone for anything at or under the prescribed amount.
Someone in the state legislature would have to take the lead and propose legislation to regulate the new marijuana industry, as lawmakers did with HB 1284. Nancy Spence, who is now retired, was one of the two Senate sponsors of that measure; although she says she wasn't supportive of the boom in the MMJ business, she helped craft the rules because it was the right thing to do. "I tried my best to do a good job at the regulation," she recalls. "Although I didn't support MMJ in the year 2000, the responsible thing to do was take care of it and do my best to make certain that it was regulated in a way that would contain it."
So far, no legislator has stepped forward — at least, not publicly — to do the same work on Amendment 64. It's possible that none will — and even if such legislation is passed, the governor could refuse to sign it. But the language of the ballot proposal takes that into account. If state government stalls on enacting the will of the people, one lawyer notes, the matter would automatically bypass the state and go straight to local jurisdictions, which would then license and regulate the stores. (If they allow them at all; as with MMJ, municipalities can opt out of pot shops.)
Tvert points to the state medical marijuana system as a good example of what this version of legalization regulation could look like. Just as the Colorado Legislature charged the Department of Revenue with regulating the MMJ business, Amendment 64 would have the Department of Revenue do the same for commercial marijuana stores. That means regulating everything from labeling requirements to production standards to advertising and display of marijuana in public. And all of those rules would have to be in place by July 2013, so that the state could begin licensing pot shops that October.
But while Tvert cites the system that the legislature set up with the Department of Revenue as a model that could be followed again, he might hope it works a little more smoothly the second time around. The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division has struggled in its sixteen months of existence and has had financial problems, squandering a lot of its operating budget on overpriced video-monitoring systems and leases on new black Chevy SUVs. There aren't enough people on staff to drive those vehicles: The division has gone from thirty employees to around a dozen.
I'm gonna call it, Aaron... it's just you and me here....
Obama wins the Presidency and A64 wins too.
Who is Donkey Hotay?
Here's the answer:
Donkey Hotay [ Show all posts ]
Real Name:Aaron (Sawyer)
Posts: 1,396
Registered: 12/19/2005 06:25PM
Last Activity: 11/28/2007 05:38PM
And to see proof that this is the same Donkey Hotay, here are the highlights:
1) he works at IBM, who has a plant in Boulder on Diagonal Blvd
2) he is a rockies fan
3) he writes like a lawyer
Read his posts for yourself, you will quickly see that Aaron Sawyer IS Donkey Hotay.
Forum Posts in the " 'Friendly' Political Ranting" section:
Here are posts from another forum by Aaron "the idiot Donkey Hotay" Sawyer:http://tinyurl.com/cldyphk
Who would expect a journalism award quality article from the pot columnist of a free weekly. Could this be journalism? There is that word again! Breathes give us the Information and background, overviews of the stakeholders, and the story as of today, The reader comes away better informed and with more depth. This is the job of journalists. The malleable message of the 30 second sound bite and the two minute news story does not an informed electorate make. We need every issue covered this way. How good is this article? If you are pro or con on the issue, you still come away with facts and history to defend your position.
The donkey is still posting the flawed study that "marijuana causes testicular cancer". Why does the Donkey hate marijuana and want it to remain illegal?
Proof that the Donkey is a prohibitionist can be found at
Here Donkey, I don't think I can take 4 more days of your copy and paste insults. So I found you this to help spark some creativity.
just a reminder that we'd love to publish some of these comments in our print letters to the editor section....ideally with the author's real name/town (we don't publish e-mail addresses). Or feel free to submit a fresh letter to patricia.calhoun@westword.
C'mon, Kevin, Ice pick, weib999x -- and dare I say it, donkeyhotay? Any takers?
@patricia.calhoun Patricia, it's obvious that the presence of the Donkey increases site traffic, because arguing with them is addictive.
What do you think of the Donkey's debate style?
@patricia.calhoun When you get donkeyhotay to reveal their real name, please let us know. That is currently the $10,000 question.
"Gotta love R Lee Ermey" Yea, you know who he reminds me of? Aaron Sawyer, though Ermey appears much smarter.
@DonkeyHotay @patricia.calhoun
Aaron Sawyer asks: "How much does it pay ?"
Answer: not as much as that cushy job you have at IBM.
@DonkeyHotayThe value of a person willing to sign his/her real name to an opinion is priceless...still, readers do it every day, and I encourage anyone willing to stand up for his/her thoughts to do so!
@DonkeyHotay @patricia.calhoun
Thanks for confirming that you are an amoral shill who will say anything for $$.
@DonkeyHotay @patricia.calhoun It does not matter the dollar amount - you are far too spineless to attach your name to anything.
Could it be too good to be true? I don't want to jinx it.
The Rocky Mountain High just got a whole lot higher. On Tuesday night, Amendment 64 -- the measure which sought the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults -- was passed by Colorado voters, making Colorado the first state to end marijuana prohibition in the United States.
With about 36 percent of precincts reporting at the time of publishing, 9News and Fox31 report that Amendment 64 has passed.
@IcePick Donkey = a Continuation of Criminal Prohibition against Marijuana Users and Growers and an endorsement of Reefer Madness hysteria regarding the HARMS and DANGERS of marijuana.
While he may seem to be Corey Donahue, he is not. His name is Aaron Sawyer and he worked for a fortune 500 company in Boulder who many call 'big blue'.
@DonkeyHotaySo you are denying you fled to avoid serving your prison sentence/s? I am the person who told you, Corey, almost years ago while we were walking near the Capital, that you have no critical thinking skills, and that I was shocked at this as you claim to have a Master's degree. hth.
@sfsailor "You are clearly Corey "Nut-tap" Donahue - the convicted sexual offender who fled to Boliva [sic] to avoid serving his jail time."
You = clearly a clueless imbecile
@DonkeyHotay Your online name, DonkeyHotay; is a play on the way "Don Quixote" sounds. Your previous posts from 1-2 years ago, on Disgus, gave away your living place as near Boulder (which turned out to be your sisters apartment). Your posting as DonkeyHotay all but died out in September and October - the same time you fled to Boliva. Your postings started right back up after you where apparently (no one has checked this) granted asylum.You are clearly Corey "Nut-tap" Donahue - the convicted sexual offender who fled to Boliva to avoid serving his jail time. When you fled from America, you also forfeited all of the bonds your acquaintances had to put up to bail you out of jail all those times from your stint terrorizing the Denver Occupy movement... In the end, when you fled, the people who bailed you out must have lost over $10k.So, Corey, what gives you the right to chime in on anything in Colorado? You fled from here physically.... And why is Westword letting you, a known, fleeing and fleecing felon have a soapbox? If WW is not going to have any standards here- what's next??? Is WW going to have a forum where pedophilies can come and taunt their victims? Seems like sound Corey Donahue style logic to me...
Says the Village Idiot who's also claimed I was Laura Kriho, Kathleen Chippi, two different guys from Wyoming, and whatever current delusional nonsense he happens to entertain in his schizophrenic mind.
@DonkeyHotay @patricia.calhoun Are there any questions you would answer donkey?
@patricia.calhoun What's more important -- the message or the messenger ?
@DonkeyHotay irony is never lost on me. It's one of my favorite things. But the simple fact is that, unlike a food critic who can write under her real name and make reservations under a fake one, an MMJ reviewer must do the reverse: Use the real name to get into the place, and so a fake one for the reviews.
what's your explanation.
And the irony of this on a blog written by "William Breathes" is lost on you, Patty?


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Taking a guild across games {WoW}
Jun 12th 2007 3:05PM I'm the Guildleader of Esoteric Order and have been for 7 years (the entire length of the guild).
I attribute our success to two sets of rules - the public guild rules and my own personal guidelines.
Guild rules:
Have Fun
No Drama
Don't Suck
Be a Team Player
My rules:
Respect Your Members and the Guild Culture
Laugh At Yourself
Control is Bad, Order is Good
I am Responsible for being the custodian of members' time
Listen More Talk Less
Why does the Horde always lose Alterac Valley? {WoW}
Jun 12th 2007 10:51AM I think the main reasons that the horde loses are:
Alliance has more reinforcements available. Alliance has an endless supply of people wanting in AV (or at least did, back when it was level 60 content) Alliance could affort to tell a level 51 to hit the road.
Crappy Defense. Sorry Hordies - you don't play D well at all. If you think the bridge is icky - try charging between those two frostwolf towers when (not an actual guild but a good idea for one) are defending them properly. It makes the bridge look warm and cozy. A lot of times, even when you play D, you play it wrong. Turtling the Relief Hut and Throne Room is a stupid tactic and always loses - you can't stop bubble pulling paladins from getting your warmasters out unscathed - stop trying. Seriously - stop whining about the bridge - what you're really whining is the fact that many alliance players know how to play Defensively.
Finally - Propogation of information. Alliance has more people cycling through winning battlegrounds in AV (much like hordies have with WSG). Winning tactics will be selected-for (like evolution) creating more winners than losers.
Hordies - if you want to win at AV, stop whining and start playing Defense and teaching other people how to do it.
Blizzard banning players in game for forum stupidity? {WoW}
Jun 4th 2007 2:12PM Good Job and Huzzah! to Blizzard!
Keep the sociopaths (which is what most forum trolls are, deep down) away from the human children.
Your own private Azeroth {WoW}
May 30th 2007 1:43PM It is my belief that the MMORPG will never actually be an RPG until it has reliable and innovative user-created content. Emulator servers are an evolutionary tree of MMOs headed in the direction of user-created content.
The best thing SOE could do to compete with WOW right now (in response to this and a thread below) is to release their creation tools and start allowing trickles of user-created content or to start licensing the engine for user-created servers.
Child of the Elements {WoW}
May 29th 2007 10:02AM I think that simplifying it *is* possible if you realize that both sides are made up of many separate races and cultures.
The bulk of the Forsaken and Blood Elf culture is evil by our standards. The Forsaken are actively conspiring to create more undead (de-facto genocide) and the Blood Elves are painfully, brutally decadent.
The only equivalent to the same level of 'evil' on the alliance side are the gnomes. Every behavior exhibited in the quests/lore points towards them being amoral experimenters with no problems with using living subjects, creating mayhem, committing murder and abandoning allies to further their ends.
That said - the game lore supports the dwarf-gnome alliance, but I am still unsure it supports the Night Elves and Humans embracing them. Night Elves look human enough for racist humans to at least consider them to be equals or allies and the dwarves seem eager and loyal enough to support nearly any ally. People point towards the draenei being 'painfully good' but i'd put my money on the dwarves being the real heroes of the piece on the alliance side.
All of that said - the real 'good guys' of WOW are to me the Orcs, Darkspear Trolls and Tauren. The orcish embrace of the warlocks says more 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer' than 'we're still evil.' All three races have entire questlines about honorable and humbling behavior, doing the right thing even if it aids your alleged enemies.
Finally, there is to me no rational, believable reason for the Tauren/Orcs/Trolls to be allied with the Blood Elves or Forsaken.
Starcraft II on WoW's homepage {WoW}
May 21st 2007 3:25PM Calling RTS Blizzard's 'Bread-and-Butter' in a post-WOW environment is like calling boardgames WOTC's bread-and-butter in a post-Magic:the gathering environment.
It is a ludicrous statement.
Blizzards hit-to-miss ratio is amazingly high for a computer game company. I have faith in SC2, but I think they are filling a different niche that only interacts with the wow niche in a very limited way.
Also - if people *are* getting mad about it being on the WOW front page - they're idiots. Self-centered, self-aggrandizing malcontents who really need to learn to live-and-let-live.
Starcraft II on WoW's homepage {WoW}
May 21st 2007 3:17PM Calling RTS Blizzard's 'Bread-and-Butter' in a post-WOW environment is like calling boardgames WOTC's bread-and-butter in a post-Magic:the gathering environment.
It is a ludicrous statement.
Blizzards hit-to-miss ratio is amazingly high for a computer game company. I have faith in SC2, but I think they are filling a different niche that only interacts with the wow niche in a very limited way.
Breakfast Topic: How did you learn to PvP? {WoW}
May 18th 2007 8:49AM I learned it from you, dad *sobbing* i learned it from you!
Tracking alts within the guild {WoW}
May 17th 2007 3:04PM Simple management technique that IMO all guilds should use, that will help with this and many other issues:
No anonymous members. Period. The guild gets your real name or you don't get an invite.
Put their name in their note and be done with it. All alts get the same name.
Breakfast Topic: New battlegrounds {WoW}
May 14th 2007 11:35AM Ideas i'd like to see:
Escort PvP - (like TFC Assassin) - one player gets flagged as the 'VIP' randomly on entry - everyone else has to either defend him or kill him.
Random Target missions (mentioned above) - Each side gets 5 buildings - the other side has to destroy one - but you don't know which it is.
I'd like world PvP to change too - allow persons to get quests to attack NPC PvP targets in enemy towns and cities - harder targets for more honor/rewards (like a war of assassins)


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News of the forthcoming Swiss referendum on the Basic Income proposal continues to make inroads in the popular press; this time across the Atlantic where The New York Times features this important political moment in a positive light. The article runs through the manifold arguments in favour of the idea, elaborates on the different types of proposal that could come into being (i.e. unconditional/means tested), how it appeals both to left and right persuasions, and charts its historical roots both in North America and elsewhere. Significantly, the author recognises its potential and how it could make sense in the United States too (i.e. helping to address its current social ills such as stagnant wages, high and stubborn long term employment): 'If our economy is no longer able to improve the lives of the working poor and low-income families, why not tweak our policies to do what we're already doing, but better — more harmoniously? It's hardly uplifting news, but minimum incomes just might be stimmig ['coherent, harmonious and beautiful'] for the United States too'. More importantly still, the author senses the idea may just sneak into the Swiss system. Such a hunch reflects a discernable quickening and intensification of the momentum gathering behind the Basic Income proposal.
Annie Lowrey. "Switzerland's Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive," The New York Times, November 12, 2013.


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CAIRO - Surviving on handouts and unable to look for work outside refugee camps, Rohingya Muslims are forced by Burmese authorities to take hazardous journeys by sea to flee persecution in their country.
There are no opportunities here for us, no hope, Abu Kassim, a Rohingya Muslim, told The Washington Post on Tuesday, February 12.
We are prisoners.
Like thousands of fellow Rohingya, Abu Kassim lives in a refugee camp in western Burma after fleeing his home in Rakhine after attacks by Buddhist mobs in June.
The 26-year-old Muslim was neither able to return to his home, fearing attacks by Buddhists, nor work outside the camp.
This has left him with no other option but to try to cross the Bay of Bengal by sea to look for a better life outside Burma.
Estimates show that several thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee Burma on flimsy wooden boats every month.
Travelers pay more than $100 for a space on rickety, 40-foot-long boats.
The United Nations says of the 13,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled Burma and Bangladesh last year, at least 485 were known to have drowned.
Worse still, Rohingyas who succeed in fleeing Burma fall prey to human traffickers.
Of course we are very concerned about the risks, but the people are insisting they want to go, said Shamshir, 42, a boat builder.
Described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, Rohingya Muslims have been facing a catalogue of discrimination in their homeland Burma.
They have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.
The Burmese government as well as the Buddhist majority refuse to recognize the term "Rohingya", referring to them as "Bengalis".
Miserable Life
Despite the risks, many Rohingya Muslims are adamant to flee Burma for a better life.
Of course we are afraid of the traffickers, Abu Kassim said.
But the suffering may still be less than this life, so we must try, he said.
God willing, we will reach Malaysia.
San Shwe Maung blames the Burmese government for pushing the Rohingyas to flee the country.
The government wants to make us miserable, to push us out, the 30-year-old unemployed teacher said.
He complained that many Rohingya-owned businesses have been appropriated by the state.
We are like the second Jews.
Rights activists also blame the systematic state persecution for the growing numbers of Rohingya Muslims fleeing the country despite the risks.
This appears to be the intended outcome of a dire situation in which Rohingyas have been consolidated, denied free movement and a means of earning a living, Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, told The Washington Post.Rights groups have accused the Burmese security forces of killing, raping and arresting Rohingyas following the sectarian violence last year.
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Question: Last week you answered a question which involved Richard Hadlee towering over other Kiwi bowlers in terms of ODI five-fors. This reminded me - I thought I heard somewhere that no other Kiwi bowler took a five-for in the format during Hadlee's career. Is this true?
Spider says: Well, not quite, but Hadlee's 5 five-fors were indeed the only five-fors for his side during the period in which they occurred - though only just. Ewan Chatfield took 10-34-5 against Australia at Adelaide Oval in the opening match of the B&H Series in 1980/81; Hadlee grabbed 9-32-5 against India in the 5th game a couple of weeks later. Hadlee was already 8 years into his ODI career by then and that was his maiden five-for, but no-one else took one for New Zealand until Rod Latham's 10-32-5 against Australia at Eden Park in 1992/93, by which time Hadlee had been retired for a couple of years.


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Today in Performance Sneaker History: David Robinson Scores 50 Points for Navy in Converse Star Tech
During his days in the NBA, David Robinson was one of the most intimidating figures in the paint. The 7'1″ center had one of the most successful pro careers of all time, playing with the San Antonio Spurs from 1989-2003. The Admiral is a two time NBA Champion and won the MVP award in 1995. But years before being selected first overall by the Spurs in the 1987 NBA Draft, David Robinson was making waves at the Naval Academy.
On March 12, 1987, Navy faced Michigan and fell short with a final score of 97-82. However, David Robinson's offensive performance would be etched into Navy record books forever. Shooting 22-37, Robinson had a total of 50 points on the night along with 13 rebounds. It was stellar showings like this that impressed San Antonio and led to one of the most successful NBA franchises of the last two decades.
At the time, Converse had a strong place in the basketball footwear world. David Robinson chose the Converse Star Tech, which was a high-top model endorsed by pros like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Julius Erving. The classic style was re-released in 2011, but has since become difficult to track down.
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Upon reaching the last 5th Volume of 2nd Season of the Visual Novel, many has been declaring for the 2nd Season of Brothers Conflict Anime. While there has the possibility that it can happen (and not), these are the following rumors (garanteed 100% UNSURE) about it:
- A Season Season-Premiere of Brothers Conflict Season 2 will be realeased in September 12, 2017, with a total of 24 episodes at hand.
In July 22, 2014, the official website of Brothers Conflict announced Two OVA's for this year (probably December) and next year (estimating on February). These two ova's has christmas and valentine's day-themed, which the staff and casts look forward to. Gero (one who sang Beloved X Survival; anime opening [You're my speciaaal~]) is coming back once more to do this, as well as our all-time favorite ASAHINA bros. + Juli (they sang 14 to 1 for the anime ending). However, or should I say this time, they both will perform new songs.


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Myself I would probably put some caramel in there somewhere or maybe even strawberries. I also wouldn't put it in a big bowl as really would be hard to plate up without looking like a mess...."
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Peru State College will waive tuition costs for the 6 credits associated with Summer Bridge enrollment. Student Success Services will pay for instructional materials and academic and cultural events. Most SSS participants are eligible for sufficient summer-session Pell Grant monies (through the 2013-14 FAFSA) to cover the costs of Summer Bridge housing, food, and college fees. The online FAFSA application is linked below.
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Summer Bridge balances an enriching academic experience with fun activities and worthwhile social connections. The online portion runs from July 1 to July 26; the on campus part from July 27 until the start of New Student Weekend. During the on campus portion, Summer Bridge meets daily, and attendance at all programs is required. To kick everything off, participants and their parents are invited to attend a reception on Sunday, July 27.
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May 25, 2011 5:53 am | Covidien | Product Releases | CommentsParietex ProGrip™ Self-Fixating mesh offers microgrip technology and provides immediate fixation and even distribution of tension for patient comfort. The resorbable polylactic acid (PLA) microgrips enable surgeons to position and place the mesh in under 60 seconds without the use of additional fixation.
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May 25, 2011 5:51 am | Atrium Medical Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsAtrium Medical's C-QUR™ V-Patch combines ProLite™ polypropylene mesh with an all-natural, pharmaceutical grade Omega 3 fatty acid (O3FA) bioabsorbable coating and advanced deployment technology. According to the company, features include: A design for the repair of small hernias such as umbilical, epigastric and trocar site defects.
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May 16, 2011 6:56 am | GerMedUSA, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsGerMedUSA Inc. announces the distribution of the patent pending Vijay-Robinson Sequential Suture Holder™, also known as the Sequential Suture Holder™. This surgical instrument was invented by Dr. R. Vijay, a well-known and respected member of the cardiac surgery community.
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April 26, 2011 6:42 am | Covidien | Product Releases | CommentsCovidien's V-Loc™ Absorbable Wound Closure Device supports optimal patient outcomes by closing wounds securely – without the need to tie knots and without changing your standard closure technique. The V-Loc™ 90and V-Loc™ 180 absorbable wound closure devices give surgeons a more comprehensive solution for short and long-term wound closure needs in open and laparoscopic procedures.
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April 19, 2011 5:45 am | Product Releases | CommentsRECOTHROM is human thrombin that is produced via recombinant DNA technology from a genetically modified CHO cell line; it is not derived from animal or human blood. RECOTHROM is indicated as an aid to hemostasis whenever oozing blood and minor bleeding from capillaries and small venules is accessible and control of bleeding by standard surgical techniques (such as suture, ligature, or cautery) is ineffective or impractical.
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March 2, 2011 5:07 am | Kci | Product Releases | CommentsKinetic Concepts, Inc. introduces the Prevena™ Incision Management System. The system leverages negative pressure wound therapy with the V.A.C.® Therapy System, which is used to treat complex open wounds since its introduction. The Prevena™ System is expected to be used most often for linear incisions associated with general surgery, OB/GYN, orthopedic and cardiothoracic incisions.
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@sunnySkys - That's a good point. But I think you should thoroughly check out any academic program you're thinking about entering into. I was in a program at my local community college for medical assisting and it turned out that the certification the program prepared students for wasn't popular in my area!
That being said, I would think twice about even working as a respiratory technician. One of my friends used to do this job, and she was exposed to a few infectious diseases while she was at work.
I know this is a risk for all healthcare workers, but to me the respiratory technician salary just doesn't seem worth the risk!


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Khloe and Lamar headed for a divorce over pregnancy troubles? Kim rushing to wed Kanye and get pregnant? Kourtney and Scott on the brink of a breakup after baby number three?
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian open up in the new issue of Us Weekly, out now, about the seemingly un-ending rumors and tabloid stories about their high-profile love lives.
"It's so sad when some publications make up such hurtful lies," X Factor host Khloe, 28, tells Us. (One magazine claims that Khloe's husband, NBA star Lamar Odom, plans to leave his wife because she's hasn't yet conceived a child.)
Khloe's sister Kim, 32, meanwhile, is allegedly "pregnant and alone" yet planning a "surprise wedding" to Kanye West, according to one magazine's confusing recent cover stories. Counters the reality superstar, whose divorce from Kris Humphries isn't yet final: "I'm happy with my life the way that it is."
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Better service, lower rates Credit unions have historically emphasized personal service and lower rates as a major component of their mission. Recently the industry has experienced an uptick in the number of people applying for membership.
"We can't say whether it's the (financial) environment or the fact that we've got some very attractive specials going on right now, but we are seeing more people moving their money from where they feel are riskier places," says Kathy Zierers, vice president of savings products at Navy Federal Credit Union, the nation's largest.
Credit unions can offer their members a better deal because any extra profits are returned to members in the form of dividends or lower fees after operating expenses and capital reserves are accounted for.
In addition, these institutions offer favorable rates relative to competitors. The average interest rate for a standard fixed-rate credit card issued by a credit union was 11.75 percent, versus 13.17 percent for a bank-issued card, according to a June 2008 NCUA survey.
Less risk to consumers Because there are no stockholders to answer to, there is less pressure on credit unions to get involved in such risky investments as mortgage-backed securities.
"You won't find those types of investments in the credit union industry. Therefore our earnings are not being impaired by them," says Phil Greer, senior vice president of loan administration at State Employees' Credit Union in Raleigh, N.C.
"This is what many financial institutions did on Wall Street so they could increase the return to their stockholders," he says. "That's not what we're all about."
Becker says that although no one is immune from the current crisis, credit unions are safer bets because they are essentially restricted to investing in federally backed securities that are generally considered safer.
"Credit union delinquencies, charge-offs and bankruptcies have increased, but they haven't increased to the extent to which bank charge offs, delinquencies and bankruptcies have increased," says Becker.
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Google has been quietly working on speech recognition as one of its three major forays into artificial intelligence. Few people know that their Android phone or even the iPhone has an application that can be used to impart full speech recognition into the phone thanks to the Google cloud.
Most have probably tried or seen speech recognition software, which, for the most part, has been stuck in the 1980s with clunky and often mistake-prone engines and hit-and-miss interfaces. The usefulness of speech recognition has been, frankly, nonexistent.
Until now, anyway.
=== Why voice recognition hasn't worked well so far.
The difference between yesterday's SR software and that of today is the approach taken to create the recognition itself. Until recently, the field of SR has been dominated by linguists who've used the idea that computers can recognize speech if they have enough data about the individual sounds that make up the phonetics of our languages.
The trouble is, these individual sounds have to be mapped by humans and coded for the computer to understand. Any gaps in that mapping (such as the sound difference between an 'ahh' and an 'oahh' sound) means gaps in recognition. In addition, the more mapping that is done, the larger the software gets – thus it becomes unwieldy fast.
=== Enter the new approach, championed by Google.
The opposite approach, taken by engineers, is to crunch vast amounts of voice data and let the computer index and map those individual sounds. This requires a huge up-front investment in computing time, but once accomplished, means much more seamless voice recognition.
Google, which has more data than anybody, has the resources to accomplish this. Voice recordings from the old Google411 and other systems the company has had in the past provide the base data to begin with. Using this, engineers have been able to parse a gigantic database of language sounds for several languages around the world, but mostly English.
The result? Android Voice and Translate apps that actually work.
You can literally hold your phone at the table in a French restaurant and speak to the waiter, through the phone, without having to know French. You say your phrase, the phone translates it (thanks to the Google cloud) into French for the waiter, and the waiter's response is likewise given to you in English. Very Stark Trek.
The phone can also take speech queries and turn them into answers or search results. Asking it, in plain English, to calculate simple or even complex equations is as easy as stating the equation. Even asking for directions and getting a Google Maps direction set is as easy as stating an address and letting it use your current GPS location as a starting point.
While the speech recognition isn't always perfect, especially in languages other than English, the app does do most things well. It's a first step towards a fully-integrated future where we talk to our computers and each other (through them) without inhibition.
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