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Patent application title: Motorcycle lifting device
Dwight Reidling (Toledo, OH, US)
IPC8 Class: AB66F1500FI
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Class name: Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force single throw lever special engaging feature
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Patent application number: 20090108244
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This invention is an improved lifting device for safely assisting in the
lifting of a motorcycle that has fallen onto its side. The device
utilizes lever action to assist a person in lifting a motorcycle back up
to its normal upright position. The device is portable, is simple to
assemble and is designed to minimize the risk of injury to the user or
damage to the motorcycle.
1. A portable motorcycle lifting device designed to engage with the foot
peg of the motorcycle and provides a lever to lift the motorcycle from a
down position to an upright position comprising, in combination:a. a
handle of tubular cross-section defining an interior cavity, the handle
being curved at one end and including a clamping device on the curved
portion designed to engage with the foot peg of the motorcycle andb. a
handle extension defining an exterior surface designed to fit within the
tubular cavity of the handle, wherein the handle extension can be
retracted into the handle when not in use and extended out of the handle,
thereby extending the length of the handle, when in use, wherein
attachment of the clamping device to the foot peg provides for the handle
and handle extension to extend upward and outward away from the
motorcycle to allow for leverage to be applied to lift the motorcycle
from a down position to an upright position.
2. The lifting device of claim 1 further including a locking device for retaining the handle extension in the extended position.
3. The lifting device of claim 2 further including a second locking device for retaining the handle extension in the retracted position.
[0001]This invention is an improved lifting device for safely assisting in the lifting of a motorcycle that has fallen onto its side. This device utilizes lever action to assist a person in lifting a motorcycle back up to its normal upright position. In one configuration of the device, the lifting device is designed to telescope together to provide a portable device capable of being stored on a motorcycle, for instance in saddlebags.
[0002]Many motorcycles weigh several hundred pounds and are not able to be lifted to an upright position by one person without risking injury to the person or damage to the motorcycle. Lifting a fallen motorcycle in the past has been accomplished either by several people, or by using complicated non-portable lifting mechanisms. In addition to not being portable, existing lifting mechanisms are not practical to use on uneven surfaces, and are multi-part devices that require assembly. This invention is completely portable, requires little assembly, and gives one person the ability to lift a motorcycle into an upright position while minimizing the risk of injury to the person or damage to the motorcycle.
[0003]FIG. 1 shows the lifting device with telescopic handle extended.
[0004]FIG. 2 shows the lifting device in use attached to a fallen motorcycle.
[0005]FIG. 2a is a detailed representation of the lifting device engaged with the foot rest of a motorcycle.
[0006]FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the lifting device of the present invention.
[0007]FIG. 3A is a detailed representation of the alternative embodiment of the lifting device engaged with the foot rest of a motorcycle.
[0008]FIG. 1 shows the motorcycle lifting device with the telescopic handle in its extended position. The lifting device 10 is composed of a handle 15 of a hollow tubular cross-section. The cross-section of handle 15 is preferably circular but it could be square, etc. The handle extension 12 has an exterior diameter that is slightly smaller than the tubular inner circumference of the handle 15. The handle extension includes two spring loaded ball locking devices 14a, 14b, each locking device being spaced from its respective end of the handle extension 12. When the handle extension 12 is fully extended from the handle 15, locking ball 14a engages hole 13 located in the handle 15, thus retaining the handle extension 12 in place. When the handle extension 12 is fully telescoped into the handle 15, locking ball 14b of engages hole 13, thereby retaining the handle extension 12 in place. The opposed end of handle 15 is an open clamping channel 18 having at least two clamping bolts 16. The clamping channel 18 is designed to slide over a motorcycle foot peg and be secured to the foot peg by the tightening of the two clamping bolts 16.
[0009]Referring now to FIGS. 2 and 2a, the motorcycle 20 is shown on the ground or pavement in a fallen position. The lifting device 10 is clamped over the motorcycle's foot peg 22 and secured to the foot peg by the clamping bolts 16. After the lifting device 10 is secured to the motorcycle, the person uprighting the cycle has the advantage of leverage provided by the device to make the lifting easier to accomplish with less risk or injury or damage. With the lifting device attached to the motorcycle, the user can pull the extended handle 12 in a downward direction (as indicated in the drawing by the arrow) to lift the motorcycle 20 back to its upright position.
[0010]FIGS. 3 and 3A show an alternative embodiment of the lifting tool device of this invention. In FIG. 3 the motorcycle 20 is shown in a fallen position. The lifting device 10 is clamped to the foot rest post 31 of the motorcycle 20 with the back of the clamping channel 28 in a parallel position to the downward post 31 of the foot rest 32. A single locking pin 42 holds the lifting device 10 in place. With the lifting device 10 in position proximate to the ground, the user grasps the handlebar 38 of the motorcycle 20 with one hand and the extension handle 34 of the lifting device 10 with the other hand and lifts the motorcycle 20 into an upright position. The embodiment of the device allows it to be used on motorcycles with full footrests instead of foot pegs. In addition, in this configuration the user has additional leverage due to the fact that both the lifting device and handle bar may be used for lifting.
[0011]This description of the preferred embodiment is intended to be illustrative in and is not intended to be limiting upon the scope and contest of the following claims.
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TFDA Director General, Mr Hiiti Sillo, told journalists in Dar es Salaam that contrary to TPI's denials, his authority has documents and exhibits proving that the company was behind the production of the ARVs. "The documents and exhibits have been submitted to security organs for further action," he stated.
He reassured the public that the company has been suspended from manufacturing ARVs through a letter with reference number CA/C.80/222/01A/47 of October 4 this year, and that the authority has suspended the supply of the drugs through a letter with reference number CA/C.80/222/01A/55 of October 10, this year.
"The letters were sent by dispatch to the TPI headquarters at Mikocheni area in Dar es Salaam and they (letters) were received on October 10, 2012," he stressed. Mr Sillo also denied reports that TPI is continuing with production of the drugs, noting that inspection conducted by TFDA on October 23, 2012 confirmed that there was no production of the drugs.
Investigations on the fake drugs by security organs is in progress, he said, and added that they would continue to keep a close eye on drugs quality and safety to protect people's health. "We want to assure that the ARVs which are in the market are safe and the public should keep on consuming them," he said.
The fake drugs saga took a new twist after the owners of the Arusha based TPI distanced the company from manufacturing and selling of the same. "We would like to categorically distance ourselves from the allegations. The said drugs did not emanate from TPI and are made using technology which we do not have in our factory," said TPI Executive Director, Mrs Zarina Madabida.
Mrs Madabida told a press conference recently that TPI produces TT-VIR 30 with oval shaped tablets whereas the fake drugs are round shaped TT-VR 30. She said that while the TT-VIR 30 tablets they produce are white in colour and marked TPI on one side and T 30 on the other side, the fake TT-VR 30 are white on one side and yellow on the other.
"We do not have the technology that can produce tablets in a round shape and in two colours, the product is simply not ours," she said. When asked over the package, Mrs Madabida said that TPI does not manufacture packages, but orders the same from Nairobi, Kenya.
"Our bottles are special with slender and longer neck but bottles that contained the fake drugs have a different shape altogether. Those bottles are not ours," she said. The reaction came a day after the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Hussein Mwinyi, suspended three top officials at the Medical Stores Department (MSD) and halted production at the TPI factory over allegations of producing and distributing fake ARVs.
Dr Mwinyi said that the government has also stopped distribution of all drugs manufactured by TPI, including those stored by pharmacists and other outlets. Those suspended pending investigations at the MSD are the Director General, Mr Joseph Mgaya, the Quality Assurance Manager, Mr Sadick Materu and the Quality Assurance Officer, Mr David Masero.
Dr Mwinyi said investigations conducted in August by his ministry through the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA), established the presence of fake ARV drug type TT-VIR 30; batch no OC.01.85 at Tarime District Hospital.
After laboratory tests were conducted, Dr Hussein noted, the ARV drugs, manufactured in March, 2011 with an expiry date of February 2013, were counterfeit with documentations showing that TPI had sold them to MSD. However, Ms Madabida denounced the allegations, saying:
"We had our products submitted to MSD and all quality assurance tests were done and it is about 15 months now since we distributed the drugs and in between, two inspections have been conducted and no fake drugs were found." Ms Madabida also denied having received any formal communication from the ministry informing her of suspension of their company's production of the said drugs.

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The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person and third-person narrative. Christie had previously experimented with this approach (famously pioneered by Charles Dickens in Bleak House), in her novel The Man in the Brown Suit. What is unusual in The A.B.C. Murders is that the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator, Hastings. This approach shows Christie's commitment to experimenting with point of view, famously exemplified by The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Poirot and the police are baffled until a series of clues lead them to suspect the murderer is traveling as a stocking salesman. Then the 'D' murder in Doncaster goes awry and a stocking salesman called Alexander Bonaparte Cust walks into a police station and surrenders.
The case seems closed, but although Cust has confessed to the crimes, he claims not to have heard of Hercule Poirot and can not explain the letters, although they were written on his typewriter. Cust suffers from epilepsy and is subject to blackouts. He claims he can not recall committing the murders, but he believes he committed them because he was in the vicinity of each crime scene. He also sees other clues, such as blood on his cuff and believes himself the culprit. Poirot is suspicious and is later able to prove that Cust is innocent of the crimes.
In a twist ending Poirot reveals that the brother of Sir Carmichael Clarke, Franklin Clarke, who wanted Sir Carmichael's property and money, committed the crimes in order to draw attention away from the murder of his brother. Franklin had met Cust by chance and decided to use him as part of his plan. He arranged for Cust to be hired as a stocking salesman and gave him a travel itinerary that ensured he was at the scene of each murder. It is also revealed that Clarke had put the blood on Cust's cuff. He also sent Cust a box of ABC Railway Guides and a typewriter, on which he had already typed the 'ABC' letters.
The story features various characters, associated with the victims, who need to be investigated for possible means and motive for the murders:
The Times Literary Supplement of January 11, 1936 concluded with a note of admiration for the plot that, "If Mrs. Christie ever deserts fiction for crime, she will be very dangerous: no one but Poirot will catch her.
Isaac Anderson in The New York Times Book Review of February 16, 1936 finished his review by stating, "This story is a baffler of the first water, written in Agatha Christie's best manner. It seems to us the very best things she has done, not even excepting Roger Ackroyd.
In The Observer's issue of January 5, 1936, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) said, "Ingenuity...is a mild term for Mrs. Christie's gift. In The A.B.C. Murders, rightly chosen by the [crime] club as its book of the month, she has quite altered her method of attack upon the reader, and yet the truth behind this fantastic series of killings is as fairly elusive as any previous truth which Poirot has had to capture for us. The reader adopts two quite different mental attitudes as he reads. At first, and for a great many pages, he is asking himself: "Is Agatha Christie going to let me down? Does she think she can give us this kind of tale as a detective story and get away with it?" Then the conviction comes to him that he has been wronging the authoress, and that he alone is beginning to see through her artifice. In the last chapter he finds, because brilliant circus work with a troop of red horses and one dark herring has diverted his attention from a calm consideration of motive, he has not been wronging, but merely wrong. It is noticeable, by the way, that characters break off at intervals to tell us that we have to do with "a homicidal murderer." We are ready to take this for granted until Mrs. Christie (I wouldn't put it past her) gives us one who isn't.
E. R. Punshon reviewed the novel in the February 6, 1936 issue of The Guardian when he said, "Some readers are drawn to the detective novel by the sheer interest of watching and perhaps anticipating the logical development of a given theme, others take their pleasure in following the swift succession of events in an exciting story, and yet others find themselves chiefly interested in the psychological reactions caused by crime impinging upon the routine of ordinary life. Skilful and happy is that author who can weave into a unity this triple thread. In Mrs. Agatha Christie's new book…the task is attempted with success." He went on to say, "In the second chapter, Mrs. Christie shows us what seems to be the maniac himself. But the wise reader, remembering other tales of Mrs. Christie's, will murmur to himself 'I trust her not; odds on she is fooling me,' and so will continue to a climax it is not 'odds on' but a dead cert he will not have guessed. To an easy and attractive style and an adequate if not very profound sense of character Mrs. Christie adds an extreme and astonishing ingenuity, nor does it very greatly matter that it is quite impossible to accept the groundwork of her tale or to suppose that any stalking-horse would behave so invariably so exactly as required. As at Bexhill, a hitch would always occur. In the smooth and apparently effortless perfection with which she achieves her ends Mrs. Christie reminds one of Noel Coward; she might, indeed, in that respect be called the Noel Coward of the detective novel.
An unnamed reviewer in the Daily Mirror of January 16, 1936 said, "I'm thanking heaven I've got a name that begins with a letter near the end of the alphabet! That's just in case some imitative soul uses this book as a text book for some nice little series of murders." They summed up, "It's Agatha Christie at her best.
Robert Barnard: "A classic, still fresh story, beautifully worked out. It differs from the usual pattern in that we seem to be involved in a chase: the series of murders appears to be the work of a maniac. In fact the solution reasserts the classic pattern of a closed circle of suspects, with a logical, well-motivated murder plan. The English detective story cannot embrace the irrational, it seems. A total success – but thank God she didn't try taking it through to Z.
In chapter three of the novel, Poirot lays out the plot of what he considers a perfect crime, a crime so challenging that 'even he' would find it hard to solve. This exact murder - where someone is murdered by one of four people playing Bridge in the same room with him - is the subject of Christie's Cards on the Table, which was published later in the same year. Similarly, in chapter one of The A.B.C. Murders Poirot alludes to a situation in the 1935 novel, Three Act Tragedy.
The first adaptation of the novel was the 1965 film The Alphabet Murders with Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot.
The novel was adapted in 1992 for the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet playing the role of Hercule Poirot. The adaptation remains faithful to the novel, with some minor changes and characters omitted. The cast included:
The first true publication of The A.B.C. Murders occurred in the US with an abridged version appearing in the November 1935 (Volume XCIX, Number 5) issue of Cosmopolitan magazine with illustrations by Frederic Mizen. The UK serialisation was in sixteen parts in the Daily Express from Monday, November 28 to Thursday December 12, 1935. All of the instalments carried an illustration by Steven Spurrier. This version did not contain any chapter divisions and totally omitted the foreword as well as chapters twenty-six, thirty-two and thirty-five. In addition most of chapters seven and twenty were missing. Along with other abridgements throughout the novel, this serialisation omitted almost forty percent of the text that appeared in the published novel.


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Can Browns Lure Saban Back to NFL?
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Immediately after Jimmy Haslam officially became the new owner of the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday and announced that team president Mike Holmgren would be replaced with Joe Banner at the end of the year, rumors started flying that Haslam will target Alabama's Nick Saban as his next head coach (the rumor has since been denied by a Cleveland radio station).
If you are unfamiliar with Haslam, he is a Tennessee alum and huge Vols booster who has gotten a good look at Saban since 2000 while Saban has coached LSU (2000-04) and now Alabama (2007-Present). Saban is 5-0 against the Vols while in Tuscaloosa and will surely move to 6-0 after playing UT in Knoxville this weekend (you can bet Vols fans are hoping Haslam hires Saban away).
If Saban were ever to return to the NFL, this would appear to be the best fit. He coached for the Browns before as Bill Belichick's defensive coordinator from 1991-94 and has further local ties from playing at Kent State in the 1970s. Saban is also arguably the hottest NFL coaching name aside Jon Gruden, who grew up a Browns fan but signed a five-year extension with "Monday Night Football" last year, and Bill Cowher, who already turned down the Browns job two years ago.
But would Saban really consider a return to the NFL after an experience with the Miami Dolphins he speaks so disdainfully about?
On the surface, there appears to be no way Saban would return to the NFL. He openly talks about how much he hated his time in the league, already makes an NFL-worthy salary of $5.32 million per year, is a god in the state of Alabama and has the Crimson Tide on track to win its third national title in four years. Meanwhile, the Browns are a train wreck with limited young talent and a long history of losing since the franchise was rebooted in 1999.
Of course, this could all be a moot point if Gruden is interested or Andy Reid is fired by the Philadelphia Eagles. Or maybe it won't be.
And if the Browns are interested, Nick Saban's word that he's staying at Alabama for life doesn't hold a lot of weight. He's the guy who routinely said he wouldn't leave LSU for the pros only to take the Miami Dolphins job and then insisted he wouldn't ditch the Dolphins to take the Alabama job, which he did.
So what could possibly lead Saban back to coaching on Sundays? I give you three reasons that could lure Saban back to the NFL against all odds.
#1: The Challenge
Watching Nick Saban coach college football is like watching clips of LeBron James in high school: They are so much better than everyone else that it's just not fair. Even in the best conference in college football, Saban out-recruits, out-coaches and out-executes everyone to the point he has created a dynasty. His first season with Alabama aside, Saban is 54-6 at Alabama, which is an absurd 90% winning percentage.
The Crimson Tide had no business competing for a national title this fall after losing Trent Richardson and half their defense to the NFL, but here they are again at No. 1 and steamrolling their way to Miami.
While Saban should be content collecting wins and national titles until he is one day proclaimed the greatest college football coach of all time, there are too many instances of college coaches not being able to turn down a bigger challenge despite their better judgment.
Look no further than Urban Meyer, who came out of stress-induced retirement after one year to coach at the ultra-high pressure job of Ohio State. Or how about Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino and Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who both initially failed in the pros only to leave college again for a second try.
Now look at Carroll. A coach everyone assumed would fail after leaving USC in 2010, his Seahawks are 4-2 and have beaten the Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots. And if Carroll's second stint in the NFL can be a success after the disaster of his first go-round, surely Saban can succeed as well.
#2: The Dolphins Weren't That Bad
While Saban's stint with the Miami Dolphins from 2005-06 certainly wasn't a success, it wasn't nearly as bad as people now portray it. Steve Spurrier's time with the Washington Redskins was a disaster. Nick Saban's tenure with the Dolphins was just a disappointment - at least on the field (off the field, he burned about every bridge he could find).
In his first season, Saban took a team that went 4-12 in 2003 and won its last six games to finish 9-7 and barely miss the playoffs. During his second season, the Dolphins went 6-10 mostly because the Daunte Culpepper experiment blew up in their faces. While the season was a failure, Cam Cameron's 1-15 mark in 2006 showed the kind of talent Saban was working with in South Beach.
The biggest mistake of Saban's time in Miami was giving him the final say on all player personnel decisions, something he never had to deal with at LSU. If someone had convinced Saban and Miami's medical staff to sign Drew Brees instead of trading for Culpepper, Saban might still be in south Florida.
#3: Haslam
As a former minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Haslam clearly gets it. In his first day on the job, he shoved Holmgren out the door and replaced him with former Philadelphia Eagles president Joe Banner. You know, the guy that oversaw an Eagles team that went to five NFC Championship Games and a spot in Super Bowl XXXIX.
You better believe that whoever Banner brings in as the Browns' general manager to replace Tom Heckert will be top-notch and light years ahead of Saban as an NFL talent evaluator. With a big-time owner, president and general manager, this would be nothing like the situation in Miami, which was a mess under Wayne Huizenga.
Haslam can show Saban that his second trip to the NFL as a head coach would be completely different with a team around him to build a playoff-worthy roster. Just as important, Haslam can prove to Saban that, unlike the always-frugal Randy Lerner, he's willing to spend whatever it takes to build a winner with a family net worth of $3 billion. An owner with deep pockets and a great president and general manager tandem are an NFL coach's best friends.
The Browns are definitely a massive rebuilding job. But at age 60, Saban has plenty of years left in the tank and already admitted to considering other jobs this past offseason before deciding to stay at Alabama for life, supposedly. If Haslam and Banner can shower him with a contract similar to Belichick's NFL-leading $7.5 million annual pay check and prove that the above three points will make Saban's second time as an NFL head coach different, the Browns just might have a shot.
Because although Saban has repeatedly said that Alabama will be his last coaching job ever, this is still the same guy who repeatedly told us he'd never coach the Crimson Tide in the first place.
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If money talks, the loudest voice in the North Dakota University System will belong to its new chancellor. Hamid Shirvani, the California State University-Stanislaus president who accepted the job this week, will start at a salary between $340,000 and $350,000 about $100,000 more than the outgoing chancellor's compensation. It'll be the highest salary of any employee in the system, a distinction that comes with expectations that Shirvani will bring a stronger presence to the role.
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A frequent topic of conversation among my friends is desired restaurant types nearby. H Street already boasts diverse options. To start, we have: Vietnamese, Moroccan, pizza, Taiwanese, pan-Asian, French, Ethiopian, Cajun, Indian, cheesesteaks, Belgian, Mexican, fried chicken, Pakistani, German, British, and Lebanese options. But that list is just the beginning of the existing spots. In addition, we have Mexican places coming, an upscale steak house is headed our way, a new sushi bar is about to open, and we're on the verge of enjoying a European style bakery. There's a rumor going around that an Italian spot might replace Red Palace, and Prince of Petworth recently repeated a rumor (which I hope is true) about Honey Pig Korean B-B-Q shopping locations in the 400 block of H Street.
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The cast of "Arrested Development" headed to "Inside the Actors Studio," along with creator Mitch Hurwitz, to speak with the show's host, and fellow co-star, James Lipton about their characters and the show everyone loves so much.
They were all there, save for Michael Cera, David Cross and Tony Hale. There was a lot of love for each other and Lipton, who played prison warden Stefan Gentles in the episode,
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- Mitch was a writer on "Golden Girls"
- Will Arnett got the call to audition for GOB right after he decided to quit doing pilots
- Maeby (Alia Shawkat) is a combination of Mitch's daughter's names: May and Phoebe
- Portia de Rossi's least favorite word is "panties," Jason Bateman's is "fleshy."
- Lipton and Liza Minnelli were among the first people Mitch knew he wanted on the show
There were also some notable quotes from the cast:
- Portia on finding her stage name in movie credits: "They were scrolling and de Rossi caught my eye and I thought, 'Yeah, that'll do.'"
- Will on GOB: "GOB is officially a magician. He's not a particularly successful one, monetarily, but he'd argue he's at the top of his game."
- GOB on his failures as a magician: "It's usually because other people don't live up to their side of the bargain. Because Michael has failed me."
- Jessica Walter on playing villains: "I think I'm lucky to get these mean, vicious, horrible people to play, but I don't think I'm like them."
- Portia on Lindsay: "She actually thinks she's a genuinely good person and a good wife."
- Jason on the Bluths: "Mitch said early on, 'Our job as writers is to make these characters as despicable as possible, your job as actors is to make them as likable as possible.'"
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WVU Wins Ninth Consecutive Capital Classic
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia women's basketball team recorded its ninth consecutive win over Marshall in the Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic with an 82-51 victory, Saturday, at the Charleston Civic Center.
A Taylor Palmer 3-pointer on the Mountaineers' (8-1) opening possession set the tone, in a game WVU never trailed. WVU used six 3-pointers in the opening half, behind Palmer and senior guard Brooke Hampton's two each. Palmer led all players into the break with 10 points, helping WVU to a 44-22 halftime lead.
"For the first eight minutes, we came out and played extremely hard defensively," coach Mike Carey said. "That's what we do – we play hard defense and then we get our offense going. Our defense dictates everything and gets us moving. After that, we hit some threes. I thought they were sagging on Asya Bussie. She moved well inside, and that's a good sign."
The Thundering Herd (3-5) improved their shooting from the field after halftime, but could not overcome the early deficit, as WVU led by as many as 32 (68-36) with 9:39 remaining.
The Mountaineers had three players record 16 points each, including the MVP of the game, senior center Asya Bussie. Bussie had 10 of her 16 points in the second half, and also added five rebounds, three assists and a pair of blocks to her stat line in 28 minutes.
Palmer finished with 16 points, including four threes and four assists. Sophomore guard Bria Holmes came off the bench with 16 points, 5-of-8 from the free throw line, with two assists and two steals in 21 minutes.
Senior guard Hampton added nine points from the bench, with three treys and four assists. Redshirt-freshman Lanay Montgomery and senior guard Christal Caldwell each added eight points. Caldwell also led WVU in rebounding with a season-best 10 boards.
"Overall, the girls played hard and they played as a team," Carey said. "It was good to have Bria Holmes. I didn't know how much I was going to play her, but she played pretty well. We're pretty deep. We've got people who can play different positions."
WVU outrebounded Marshall 53-27, gaining 15 second-chance points. The Mountaineer bench contributed 40 points.
WVU shot 45.5 percent (25-55) from the field, 50 percent (10-20) from 3-point range and 68.8 percent (22-32) from the free throw line. In comparison, Marshall was held to only 30.4 percent (17-56) from the field, 29.2 percent (7-24) from beyond the arc and 52.6 percent (10-19) from the free throw line.
The Thundering Herd was led in scoring by Norrisha Victrum with 13 points, Erica Woods with 11 points and Chelsey Romero with eight points. Woods and Suporia Dickens each pulled down five rebounds.
Saturday's win extends WVU's streak to eight games this season. WVU returns home for a 7 p.m. tip with Delaware State on Dec. 18 at the WVU Coliseum.
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The Francis Center for Servant Leadership was established in 1999 as an instrument for connecting Pfeiffer University to the community and the world through engaging and meaningful service. Pfeiffer sought to strengthen its identity as a United Methodist-related university by becoming a reflection of John Wesley's charge to "love God and one another.â€
The combination of this principle and a desire to serve the university community led to the refining of Pfeiffer's focus to "prepare servant leaders for lifelong learning.†By finding ways to integrate service and academics into one experience, Pfeiffer hopes that students are inspired to make decisions that lead to successful lives of meaningful work and service.
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"Servant Leadership begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? At its core, servant leadership is a long-term, transformational approach to life and work - in essence, a way of being that has the potential for creating positive change throughout our society." -Robert Greenleaf
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The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative." Lipson, an engineering professor at Cornell University (this July he's moving his lab to Columbia University), is one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics. His research projects provide a peek into the intriguing possibilities of machines and automation, from robots that "evolve" to ones that assemble themselves out of basic building blocks. (His Cornell colleagues are building robots that can serve as baristas and kitchen help.)
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A recurrent nightmare is gripping the American national security establishment. Leading politicians and counterterrorism officials in Washington are losing sleep over the so-called "lone wolf," allegedly the biggest terrorism threat of all.
The lone wolf is what "keeps me up at night," Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, recently told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "It's quite clear," testified Lee Hamilton, the former chairman of the 9/11 Commission, "that the lone wolf terrorist has become a major threat and concern to the country." Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta acknowledged the same fear last winter to the Senate Intelligence Committee: "It's the lone wolf strategy that I think we have to pay attention to as the main threat." Senate Majority leader Harry Reid also told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that his "greatest concern" in life is the lone wolf.


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North Sinai Governor Major General Sayed Harhur said President Mohamed Morsi is keen on maintaining contact with Sinai citizens and solving all the problems which hinder the development of the peninsula.
During his meeting with the President on Wednesday 27/2/2013, Harhur reviewed the files of services such as water, sanitary drainage, electricity, roads and residential communities.
He said the President expressed his understanding of these files and decided to endorse the investment plan of the governorate.
The President underlined the importance of solving the problems of Sinai, such as the possession of land on borders, rupture of mobile services and judicial rulings issued in absentia against some citizens involved in the cases of Taba and Arish police stations.


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Impruneta Terracotta Pottery
I have a new hobby. We went to Impruneta today, a couple of miles from our house south of Florence, and visited a large terracotta pottery producer. What fun.
The clay is mined a couple of miles from the furnace, and it is 100% natural. The pottery is made by hand, without forms, and then fired in a wood-fired furnace. Pretty much the way they've been doing it since Roman times. They even call the kiln a "Roman Furnace." The flowers, lemons, medallions and putti are all hand carved. I had to keep reminding myself that these are decorative, and that you don't cook in them :-) Natural is good.
The village has some huge pots in the main piazzas that are really something. I will post a couple of photos later.
I think this gives an interesting balance to the refractory question. These guys don't make ovens or cookware, and the oven producers don't make decorative pieces.
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You can run from a crow that you've wronged, but you can't hide. Wild crows remember human faces in the same way that mammals do.
Crows can distinguish human faces and remember how different people treated them, says John Marzluff of the University of Washington in Seattle.
To work out how the crows process this information, Marzluff had members of his team wear a latex mask as they captured 12 wild American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos). The crows learned to associate the captor's mask with this traumatic experience. While in captivity, the crows were fed and looked after by people wearing a different mask.
After four weeks, the researchers imaged the birds' brains while they were looking at either the captor or feeder mask. The brain patterns looked similar to those seen in mammals: the feeder sparked activity in areas involved in motivation and reward, whereas the captor stimulated regions associated with fear.
The result makes sense, says Kevin McGowan of Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. Crows don't mind if humans are in their habitat – but they need to keep a close eye on what we do.
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An agreement on Joint Border Patrols along the border between Nigeria and the Republic of Niger was signed yesterday between the two countries with a view to tackle crime, including terrorism.
This is the outcome of President Goodluck Jonathan's trip to Niger for the sixth session of the Authority of the Nigeria-Niger Joint Commission for Cooperation.
Jonathan met with his Nigerien counterpart, President Issoufou Mahamadou where the signing of the agreement by the foreign affairs ministers of both countries took place.
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A brief update on the Bellavista Heap Leach Pad. You may recall that is the "failing" heap leach pad in Costa Rica. I have added a number of new photos of the failing pad to my longer, more technical writings on the pad at this link.
These photos show a considerable increase in the movement and slope instability of the conrner that first gave warning of problems via cracking. Not that there is any legal obligation on the company to tell us what is happening–they have already announced mine abandonment. But you would have though that the Costa Rican authorities would like to know what is happening?
I cannot believe that everybody in authority in the mining company and the country is just going to sit back and await what appears to be the inevitable based on the new pictures I post: namely a continued down-hill slide of the heap leach pad and the hill-side materials themselves; until the whole mixed and mangled mess of natural hillside soil, heap leach pad materials, liners, crushed metal from destroyed buildings, chemicals, et al. are at the bottom of the hill waiting to be swept off site by the next good rainfall.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A bill expected to be introduced to the Pennsylvania Senate this week would give future tax credits worth $67 million a year for a petrochemical refinery planned by Shell Oil Co., The Daily Journal reported.
According to Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati''s top aide, lawmakers will demand assurances that the plant will be built in Pennsylvania and that promises of 10,000 to 20,000 jobs will materialize.
The credits would not become available until 2017, but Gov. Tom Corbett is seeking action now apparently to demonstrate the state''s commitment to sharing the costs of the multibillion-dollar project, the article stated.
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Forget bananas. The biggest hit in zoos this year is an Apple, though orangs have more of a geek streak than gorillas
IT STARTED as a joke. On 1 April 2011, British newspaper The Sun ran a story claiming that an experiment to entertain captive gorillas using iPads had left them crazy for the game Angry Birds. "Planet of the Apps", as the April fool's story was headlined, quickly found its way to Scott Engel, a freelance photographer and volunteer at Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin. Engel knew his 3-year-old niece loved using a finger-painting app, so why not a great ape? He had just bought a new iPad, and hearing the zoo's gorilla keeper was looking for ways to keep his charges entertained, Engel offered the zoo his old one.
It turned out that Milwaukee's gorillas lack the geek streak. Direct eye contact is a threat gesture, so faces on the gadget's screen may put them off, Engel suggests. However, the zoo's orang-utans went bananas for Apple's tablet and soon Engel had rustled up three more iPads to keep the apes busy.
Mahal, a 4-year-old male, and his 31-year-old adoptive mother MJ were fascinated from the start. The first time Mahal saw his own image on the screen - taken with the iPad's camera - he threw up his hands and clapped. A shy male named Tommy took a while to warm to his tablet, says Engel, "but now he's really into it".
Then Richard Zimmerman of Orangutan Outreach, a conservation group based in New York, heard about the experiment. He saw its potential for both entertaining apes and studying their behaviour. With a shrewd eye for publicity, he also spotted its value for raising public awareness of the precarious status of orang-utans in the wild. And then there were the networking opportunities - for the apes, that is. Put iPads in zoos across the US and they could be connected through the internet, using Apesbook perhaps, to offer bored orang-utans online "primate play dates". To help raise funds, Orangutan Outreach launched its Apps for Apes campaign in May.
Orang-utans are the obvious candidates for this kind of activity, says Trish Khan, Milwaukee zoo's head orang-utan keeper. These apes are known for their intelligence, curiosity and creativity (they're notorious escape artists, Khan says) but can quickly become bored and depressed in the monotonous confines of captivity. "Their world is really very small," she says, and that makes a computer a welcome distraction.
Khan's orang-utans aren't the first computer-gaming apes. Orang-utans at Atlanta's zoo have been using a concrete "tree" with an embedded touchscreen computer since 2008. The apes use it to play games in which they categorise, match and sequence images, which provides useful data on how orang-utans learn and think.
However the real IT crowd resides at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. Since 1994 its orang-utans have used computers both for entertainment and to communicate with keepers using a simple symbol-based language. Currently their "dictionary" contains around 70 symbols including nouns such as food items as well as verbs and adjectives. Eventually syntax - the other building block of language - will be added to see if the orang-utans can construct sentences to communicate with their carers.
At Milwaukee the iPads are still considered tools for entertainment rather than for research. The keepers offer them no more than twice a week, and with no food rewards it's up to the apes whether they participate.
Engel, now the zoo's official iPad enrichment coordinator, shows the orang-utans videos through the glass facing the visitors' area. They're fascinated by clips of other animals; Mahal loves videos of Humboldt penguins, though "he's not too keen on rhinos", Engel says. MJ prefers David Attenborough's BBC documentary on apes. "I think she has a crush on him," Engel adds.
The orang-utans also use free or inexpensive drawing programs such as Doodle Buddy, music app Magic Piano and simple games like Koi Pond. The animated, interactive app The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore is also a favourite. "We're collecting information on their preferences and how they use the iPads, where they position their fingers and how much of the screen they use," Khan says. She would like to commission customised apps with larger buttons and more pictures, and hopes that visitors will be able to download the same apps and use them to compete with the orang-utans in games using their own mobile gadgets.
But first she and Engel must face a challenge of their own. At the moment Milwaukee's apes must reach through their enclosure's metal bars to touch the iPad screens. "If they got a hold of it, they'd take it apart," says Khan. To solve this, keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo mounted their computers on walls and heavy carts and added transparent plastic covers to protect the screens. Each device then needed additional sensors to measure the position of an orang-utan's fingers. So Khan and her colleagues are looking for a simpler and cheaper way to make the iPad's wafer-thin screen ape-proof. They have begun by contacting industrial designers who specialise in computer casings. Zimmerman also plans to consult dolphin expert Jack Kassewitz for his experience using waterproofed iPads (see "Appiness for all"). "Orang-utans pee on everything," says Zimmerman.
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The launching of the Meles Zenawi Foundation (MZF) was graced with the presence of leaders in the region who have known him and worked with Meles, in his rule of Ethiopia for two decades since 1991.
No other Ethiopian leader has been celebrated in death as former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is. His political allies, friends and family members have pushed and legislated the formation of a foundation in his memory, launched on Saturday afternoon, April 6, 2013, inside the African Union (AU) conference hall. The launching of the Meles Zenawi Foundation (MZF) was graced with the presence of leaders in the region who have known him and worked with Meles, in his rule of Ethiopia for two decades since 1991.
Ismail O. Guelleh, president to of Djibouti, yesterday recalled the late Meles Zenawi as a leader with a "deep sense of urgency," to overcome poverty and a "locomotive to our region." Guelleh's was one of the many reflections made by contemporary leaders of the region from Sudan's Omar Al-Bashir to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni on the life and accomplishments of Meles.
The Foundation hopes to keep the memory of a leader Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma of the AU Commission described as "a pan-Africanist par excellence." She was joined in her praise by Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria. Describing Meles as a "straight shooter" and with "no pretention", Obasanjo said Meles is "worthy of any honour bestowed upon him." Hoped by its initiators to be a world-class institution that "reflects and promotes the ideals and visions of Meles", the Foundation will establish a library and research centre, provide fellowships and recognise noteworthy achievements and see the construction and management of a public park in his memory, his widow, Azeb Mefin, told the nation through a televised broadcast.
Azeb made a scripted address, which was focused, emotional yet authoritative in its delivery. Museveni, who was frank enough to reveal his ideological differences with Meles on the role the private sector should play in an economy, compared to state owned enterprises, took the initiative to pledge 300,000 dollars. His generosity was followed by Djibouti's half a million dollars and South Sudan's one million dollars. Al-Bashir has donated two million dollars, the total of which could cover the annual budget of the Foundation, which will be governed by eight board of directors.
Some of Meles's comrades seated in the front row of the photo are likely candidates to serve in the first board: From left are Debretsion G. Michael (PhD), minister of Information & Communications Technology (MoICT), Sufian Ahmed, minister of Finance & Economic Development (MoFED), Addisu Legesse, head of EPRDF cadre training centre, Samora Yenus (Gen.), chief of staff of the Army, Bereket Simon, chief of Government Affairs Office, Kuma Demeksa, mayor of Addis Abeba, and Tewodros Hagos, a policbureau member of the TPLF. Azeb may be seated in the board which is designated to Meles's family.