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I think we should wait until the report comes out tommorow before jumping to any conclusion. I don't defend Joe anymore, but he was cleared of legal wrongdoing by the grand jury. What was actually said to him by McQuery, what he knew, what exactly he said to Curley, we may never know this. I do believe that he was involved in an institutional cover-up from what I know right now, but I am not 100% sure. That being said, now matter who Joe Paterno was, or who he thought he was, or who the University thought he was, it was the legal duty of the Athletic Director, Curley, the head of University Police, Shultz, and ultimately the President of Penn State University, Spannier to make the decision to report this to authorities and let them do their work. They failed to do so. If Joe insisted on Jerry just getting counseling, they should have ingored him also, and reported it anyway. Joe was the Head Coach, but he had a boss also, just like most of us do. His boss, the Athletic Director needed to make that call. They failed to do so. That is why Curley and Shultz are looking at a trial for perjury and failure to report child abuse to authorities, and Joe Paterno was cleared of criminal wrongdoing and legal wrongdoing by the Attorney General. In fact, the authorites said that he fulfilled his legal duty. Of course he had a higher moral duty, and he as much as admitted that he wished he had done more. We all do. That is why PSU is in the mess it is in, but let's not keep making Joe the scapegoat. It was his bosses jobs to report this. They chose not to do so after learning of this information.
The most underrated player on the team who never gets any recognition is Garret Jones. The only question with his has been his consistency, but when he is hot so are the Pirates. I disagree with Dave Jones here on several points. He seems to be saying that the Pirates are one dimensional offensively, and that Cutch is it. That is not true. Although the others don't hit for average, the Pirates are hitting lots of home runs because they have players at every position with power. Even the short stop Clint Barmas can hit home runs. That was the difference last month. This team hits for power. When you hit lots of home runs you can forget about batting average. If a player goes one for four and hits a grand slam, that equals 4 runs on a .250 average. That is why the pirate offense is successful. They are hitting lots of home runs. I will take power over batting average any day of the week.
My biggest fear in the group showers when I was a kid was catching athlete's foot. My mom used to always tell me to wear my flip flops in the showers after track and field practice. Fortunately, I never had to worry about anyone like Sandusky trying to soap me up or press his genetilia against me. I am afraid Jerry is going down, and Penn State will never be the same. The reputation has suffered irrepairable harm because of all this. After the criminal case wraps up, Penn State will have years and oddles of civil lawsuits to worry about. It looks like the emails surrounding Curley, Shultz and Spannier will involve the University in this mess. This will be in the news for many years to come. I look for Shultz and Curley to also get convicted based on what the press has reported. Spannier is not out of the woods either. While I did have tremendous respect for Coach Paterno, I really don't feel the same about him anymore either or any of these people who had knowledge of this and did nothing. However, I have made mistakes in my life and nobody is perfect. Joe lead an exemplary life with one exception. I am not going to comment on Joe's role because I never got to hear his side of it other than "I wish I had done more." Yes, Joe we all do, but nobody did, which is why PSU finds itself in the mess it is in. Joe suffered to the end with health problems. Fortunately, he did not have to suffer through this ordeal anymore than he already did. RIP.
I can tell you that during the late 70s and early 80s when I was growing up, group male showers were common in high schools and athletic facilities. My high school was too poor to have separate shower facilities built for the coaches or phys ed teachers. The unwritten protocal is correct. You stare at the wall or up at the ceiling and don't look down. Some of the public group showers were a pole with several shower heads on them and in very close proximity. I could invision some incidental contact similar to a crowded elevator, but there was never any soaping each other or men lifting boys up nude or anything like that. The wet towel snapping ritual was common however. Forget about all that stuff. I don't know what the relevance of this is anyway. There were prosecution witnesses testifying to anal sex, oral sex and indecent touching by Sandusky. The only question for the jury should be whether that testimony is credible. This whole shower business is small apples compared to the other allegations of sex in the basement of the Sandusky home, etc.
Regardless of how you interpret that song. We will agree to disagree on that. The YMCA is a great organization that has helped many many boys and young men over the years. I stand by my comments: This has nothing to do with homosexuality. It is a case about a pedophile, which if Sandusky is found guilty needs to be punished with significant jail time. From what I have read about the trial so far and all the news reports and grand jury testimony, I belive he is guilty. I believe that PSU is guilty of a huge cover-up to protect an image or a brand identity and not expose the University to scandel. As a PSU alumni, I am absolutely disgusted with this whole thing. We really need to clean house, open our records up to the public and not be so secretive in the future.
Homosexuality and pedophilia are two entirely different things. Homosexuality or homosexuals in general are not on trial here. In fact, the LGBT community is strongly outspoken against pedophilia or the sexual abuse of minors, whether boys or girls. Many in the LGBT community are raising adopted children of thier own. Please don't try to link this to homosexuality. Your statement about the YMCA is outrageous. The Villiage People did not write that song about going to the Y for homosexual activity. I believe it was a reference to homeless shelters and addiction treatment that the Y operates and had nothing to do with this. "You can get a good meal......"
You are all wrong. Joe Paterno did was the law required of him to do, and the grand jury cleared him of wrongdoing. He reported the incident to Tim Curley, the athletic director, and to Gary Shultz, head of university police and Vice President of the University. Those two individuals had an affirmative legal duty to report the incident out to Children and Youth Services and to police. They did not do so and lied about what they knew, which is why they were charged with perjury and failure to report child abuse. Joe probably thought that there was an internal investigation by Shultz and University Police and Curly, and they did not think it warranted further action. I do not believe Joe "knew" this guy was a child molestor. He would have been off the staff. Joe Paterno's image and legacy is tarnished in your minds only and all the others who want to make him out to be a scapegoat. He did nothing wrong. Period.
I really wish they would stop calling these "incidents" "hazing." The term "hazing" really minimizes the severity of this whole thing. A person was beaten with paddles here for three hours and dropped out of college because of it. That is a criminal assault and battery. This person's life was messed up because of this. The people who perpetrate this commited a crime. These fraternity and sorority organizations need to wake up and stop this sort of abuse. We all knew about these kinds of things and heard about them going on when I was in college. That is why I didn't pledge. Fraternity and Sorority organizations are losing out on some good students because they insist on abusing new recruits. They have no legal or ethical right to do so, and if they continue to do this, they should be shut down by the university or college.
Buffalo Bob, Johnson has the Washington Nationals sitting in first place. In addition, Davey Johnson was the most successful manger in NY Mets history leading them to the 1986 World Championship. He was instrumental in bringing computer statistical analysis into the game. He used to sit in the dugout at Shea Stadium and look at match ups on his computer comparing batters vs. pitchers. This was back when personal computers were in their infancy. He is hardly a "dumb butt" or a "simpleton."
This was a poor decision. You will have many kids now sitting out the pledge and eventually it will just be eliminated like school prayer was. Here we have the rights of the minority being imposed on the majority. that is not how it is supposed to be. Majority rules in a democracy. There are lots of things I don't like to do, like drive the speed limit, but I do that anyway. If we want to live in a civilized socity, there must be rules. Reciting the pledge to the best of your ability and standing and respecting the flag of your country in a public school (if you are physically able to do so) should be a rule we all must live with. I really don't get this. I agree, we have many, many freedoms in the US that are being taken for granted. This sort of nonsense is making a mockery of our great nation.
I'm still perplexed as to why the Phillies fired him in 1983 while the team was in first place. Did they ever address that publically? Was he disliked by the GM or the owners or something? I know Pat had a good reputation and never got into trouble so it is probably the most bizarre piece of trivia in Phillies history. I would be interested to know if anyone has any more information of this. I realize the story is almost 30 years old, but I am curious and like baseball history.
Obviously, someone wanted to read my post. See below. Just because you don't like labor unions, doesn't mean union employees can't have an opinon. My post was very relevant as members of the unionized bargaining unit were not impacted by this direct deposit dispute. It was only the managers.
There are no budget problems. The state has close to a billion dollar surplus. As such, we should be more concerned about all the workers in our state stores losing their jobs and health insurance. If we privitize, they will be paying people minimum wage to work at these places. Let's face it, these state workers have families and need their jobs also.
I'm not sure Harrisburg can afford to wait until 2014 to change this administration. Barring a resignation by LT (which is not going to happen), I guess we will have to wait and see. My only hope is that the second street business establishments and all the great projects (City Island, HACC Midtown, Whitiker Center) can just hang on that long until we can vote LT out. I don't see any scenario where she get re-elected. Continuing to blame Reed is a waste of time and not getting us anywhere. In fact, this article sould not have even been written. The past is done, history. We need to move forward. I know Reed made mistakes (i.e. the Incinerator), but overall he was not just a good mayor, he was a great mayor. Harrisburg looks nothing like it did in 1982. It was a ghost town.
This is so much like Obama blaming George Bush for all the economic troubles even though he has been President going on 4 years now. I suppose Linda Thompson had nothing to do with the city's financial trouble. As the article says she voted in favor of all the major incinerator project authorizations and funding while on city council. She spent her first couple of years fighting with city council and getting into a personal fight with Comptroller Dan Miller, using incinderary homophobic comments and having prayer meetings in her official capacity on taxpayer expense. She is as much to blame for the situation Harrisburg finds itself in as Reed is or more. To my knowledge she was President of City Council before being elected Mayor. That makes her even more culpable. Reed only served in the exective branch of city government. Thompson has served in the Legislative branch for an extended period of time and held the position of mayor going on two years. Stop blaming Reed, and get to work on fixing our problems people. Unfortunately, nobody can work for Thompson. They all quit on her.
Why should Joe have retired in 2009. The 2011 team was 8-1 while Joe was the head coach. They proceeded to go 1-3 after he was fired. The book is still out on Coach O'Brien. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt until I see what he has to offer the PSU football program. There is no doubt however that the most winningest coach in Division IA history deserves every accolade he gets. Coach O'Brien has a tough job in front of him to fill the shoes of the late Joe Paterno. Joe was not fired for lack of success on the field. Even with cancer and everything elst, he was still poised to play for the conference championship last season. His win-loss record speaks for itself. It was absolutely disgraceful to fire Joe Paterno after 61 years of service to the same university after he was cleared by the grand jury of any legal wrongdoing in the Sandusky scandel.
I agree with the comment on welfare. I used to work at DPW, and I came to believe that at least 50% of the cases are fradulent. Heck, we don't even do a resource test for Food Stamps in Pennsylvania. I personally researched cases showing abuse of the system, people getting 25K per year in special allowance money alone, not to mention their cash grant, food stamps, free child care, section 8 subsidized housing, free medical assistance/health insurance, and a car! Yes, I said a car, all at taxpayer expense. Pennsylvania is one of the few minority of states that actually buys welfare recipients cars to drive back and forth to their programs. The system is a mess, and anyone who defends it is also part of the problem. DPW is 50% of our state budget. PA is officially a "welfare state" Clients sell their food stamps for cash to buy dope, live with drug dealors while mom and kids collect welfare and live off drug money. I know this is going on. I have personally seen these sorts of cases. I hope this administration lives up to its promise to crack down on welfare and the fraud and abuse in that department. It is a disgrace. Section 8 housing projects and low income housing will continue to be the hub of violence until we make these people work and get off the taxpayer funded system that has failed them and all the rest of us. Most countries in the world don't even have welfare. When I was at DPW, I had to call other states to see which state welfare programs buy people cars. I called out to Utah, and they laughed at me. They never heard of anything so stupid.
His background, education and qualifications as an educational administrator, sociologist, family demographer and counselor bring nothing to national security. This is how our corrupt government works. People make friends in partisan politics in either party, they help them get elected, after they are elected there is always a bunch of jobs (appointments) available that are just given to political appointees regardless of qualifications. I see this all the time working for the state. WE really need to have an independent elected, but the corrupt two party system makes that impossible. Hence we have government run by special interest groups, political action committees, donors and cronyism. This is a cronyism political appointment plain and simple. Spanier has friends in high places in the democrat party, they saw his ultimatim to resign or be fired as being politically influenced by Corbett in his role on the BOT, so his buddies in Washington are bailing him out with a nicely gifted position. They don't care about his resume.
You don't know that he had security clearances or did any of this work I take it. Even assuming that is true, educational administration, sociology, demography and family counseling is completely unrelated to law enforcement and national security. Like I said, he must have connnections in high places in the Democrat party to land this job. This is an obvious political cronyinsm appointment. Nothing illegal about that. I work for the state and see this all the time. Unqualified political appointees show up with no background and do the jobs and take positions that qualified civil servant should be doing. It isn't illegal, unethical yes, waste of taxpayer money, yes.
This guy's background is a Sociologist, family counselor and demographer. What in the world in his backround and qualifications would point to security and law enforcement work? He must have connections in the Democratic Party to get this job.


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The pitching workshop will be held on four Tuesdays, beginning on Oct. 18. It will continue on Oct. 25, Nov. 1 and Nov. 15, running from 6-8 p.m. each day. The hitting workshop will be held on Wednesdays, starting Oct. 19. Also running from 6-8 p.m., it will continue on Oct. 26, Nov. 2 and Nov. 16.
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For more information, or to register, call (409) 880-8135 or (409) 880-8974. Information is all available on the Lamar Athletics Web site at www.lamarcardinals.com/camps/lama-camps.html .

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Apple store just replaced my iPad (intermittent functioning home button). I restored the replacement iPad from an iCloud backup but now had two iPads with the same name showing in the 'Find my iPhone' app:
1. The replacement iPad which the app dutifully located.
2. The offline iPad which I had wiped and returned to the Apple Genius.
Procedure to delete the old iPad:
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2. You will be at the 'My Devices' screen. Swipe right to left on the inactive device and press on the 'delete' icon that appears.
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text: Hugh Aynesworth covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News in 1963. Famous among his fellow investigative reporters for his prowess as an interviewer, he's been a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times—including once for his Kennedy assassination reporting—and he has won 70 local, regional and national awards. He also covered the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, as well as the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the Branch Davidian stand-off and fire in Waco in 1993. He started as a sports editor at a small-town daily in Arkansas and eventually became national correspondent for The Washington Times, with dozens of stops in between, including Newsweek bureau chief and investigative team leader for ABC's 20/20. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including The Only Living Witness and Conversations With a Killer, the story of Ted Bundy, and If You Love Me You Will Do My Will, the story of the biggest will case in Texas history. He is also the co-author of JFK: Breaking the News, a 30-year look at the assassination and its aftermath. He has served as president of the Dallas Press Club and the Press Club Foundation, and as Texas president of Sigma Delta Chi. A native of Clarksburg, W.Va., he lives in Dallas with his wife Paula Aynesworth, who has been with KERA and KERA-TV for more than 25 years.


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If you haven't seen The Dark Knight Rises yet, then chances are you've probably already heard everyone you know saying how great it is and how Anne Hathaway's Catwoman is the best part. I haven't actually seen it, so I have no idea if that's true or not, but Catwoman is the shit and Anne Hathaway is more often than not the best part of any movie she's in.
Except now it looks like Catwoman has somehow become even more impossibly awesome than she already is: Michael Musto, of The Village Voice, seems to think that Hathaway's Selina Kyle may have been a lesbian.
Her affection for men seems distinctly manipulative, whereas she obviously has a true connection with her sidekick, Jen - -played by British actress Juno Temple -- who's all over her like a Labels for Less suit.
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Admittedly, tenuous evidence at best, but for the sake of wishful thinking, I'd really like this to be true. I mean, if they ever decide to give Hathaway her own Catwoman movie -- I know, they tried that already with Halle Berry; it didn't end well -- seeing a lesbian superhero in a summer blockbuster would be kinda kickass in all the right ways.


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Using an auxiliary creep drive to move a conveyor when the main drive is not used.
Products Used
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Size Used
Will depend upon torque requirements.
Description of Operation
The majority of the time, the main motor through the main reducer drives a conveyor system; however, in conditions where the system may be on an extended shut-down, they would want the auxiliary (pony) drive to take over and slowly rotate the system to provide proper lubrication to all the system components. When this is required, the electric clutch is engaged and the motor is turned on and the gear drive rotates the entire system at a slow speed.
Reason for Selection of the Ogura Tooth Clutch
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Besides conveyors, there are also large Kiln drives that use creep drives and other systems like Ball Mills and turbine starting devices use devices similar to this. Many creep drives for conveyor systems are found in large manufacturing plants or bakeries that require the drives to continue running to get proper lubrication because of the high temperatures.


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Mr. Hare, the person, had an impressive career in PR, as a design consultant with Karrimore, was a marketing consultant for a long list of footwear and sport brands plus he opened 2 successful shops in London before starting Mr. Hare the brand - a brand that took 360 days from conception to fruition after a visit to a roadside tapas bar in Spain. Mr. Hare designs his shoes wherever he chooses. Currently handmade in Empoli (Tuscany, Italy), Mr. Hare will be made wherever the greatest manufacturer best suited to the task at hand is located.
For SS10 'Hot Steppers' is a dedication to a selection of Dancehall generals who through their sheer brilliance have given us reason to tear up the dance floors across all continents. Above the thrill of music that moves your physical and emotional state, there is only love in Mr. Hares humble opinion. For SS10, the major emphasis is on the materials. Mr. Hare wanted to create something with the presence of the AW09 'Purest Form' Collection, but with a much greater depth of character. The heart of the collection is made of Vachetta, a vegetable tanned leather that isn't produced in such an environmentally damaging way and the leather retains more of it's natural characteristics. These shoes must be polished regularly with natural bees wax polish and in return they will age and grow with you forming a unique patina and colouring that is distinct and unique. The more love you give them; the more reason they will give you to love them back.
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Nasty "frequency buzz" coming through speakers when using 2nd monitor
Hey all,
I am new to the forum. Figured I'd jump into this community to ask for help with an issue...
I use a FireWire audio interface. This is how I put sound through studio monitor speakers that I use with my 2012 Macbook Pro. I just recently got a 20" monitor so that I could have more room for auido mixing/whatever. There is no VGA port on my computer, so I picked up this, a "Mini DisplayPort (Thunderbolt) to VGA adapter so that I can use my monitor.
I plugged the monitor in and it fired right up, but as soon as I opened up my audio software, a constant buzzing/ high frequency noise started coming through the speakers. I have never had this issue before. If I switch the computer's audio settings back to "internal speakers" the noise goes away.
Any ideas what this may be? It's quite an annoying sound, and obviously if using an external monitor means that I won't be able to use my audio setup/external speakers then I will be quite put-off.
Thanks so much for the help!
That sounds like interference coming from either the monitor or the cables. One of your cables could be picking up a ground loop. You'll just have to experiment with different setups and placements to see if you can eliminate the interference.
Not too close to a hands free telephone by chance?
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Raziayah and D.Chase join us for a sample of BLF
Let me explain BLF first before I tell you about this weeks poet feature. BLACK LOVE FESTIVAL is an event that D.C ran for Six year and it returns from it's hiatus this September at the Brookland Metro Station. You'll have to listen to the show to find out when. That's called a tease.
Joining me on the show to give you a preview of some of the poetry featured are Raziayah representing Newark N.J./D.C and D. Chase representing Baltimore. These two forces come together to demonstrate what true unity is all about. How is the love shared? You'll have to bare witness to that for yourself.


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UPDATE: 1 killed, 7 suspected undocumented immigrants injured in rollover
CORPUS CHRISTI - Emergency medical responders and law enforcement officials with several agencies scrambled before daylight Saturday after a two-county pursuit of suspected undocumented immigrants turned deadly.
One person was killed and seven others injured about 5:30 a.m. in a pickup rollover on I-37 near Callicoate Road, Corpus Christi Police Department officials said.
"An unknown number of people fled," said Lt. Isaac Valencia, police traffic supervisor.
An estimated 16 people were in the vehicle when it crashed, he said.
The deceased was an adult male, federal officials said. They would not release his name, age or country of origin pending notification of family.
Two men and a woman from El Salvador were released from the hospital following treatment of minor injuries. A juvenile male from El Salvador was kept for observation because of neck and head injuries, said Henry Mediola, spokesman for Rio Grande Valley Sector of U.S. Border Patrol. A man and woman from El Salvador, and a man from Guatemala, remained hospitalized late Saturday, with non-life-threatening injuries.
Five adult men from El Salvador were taken into custody at the accident site, Mendiola said. The men and those released from the hospital were questioned by U.S. Immigration and Customs officials to determine who was driving, he said. They remained in the custody of border patrol.
The chase began before 5 a.m. with border patrol agents along U.S. Highway 77 between Ricardo and Riviera, Mendiola said
They tried to stop the driver of a Chevy pickup who was driving suspiciously, Mendiola said, and Kleberg County Sheriff's Office was notified.
Sheriff's officials there trailed the pickup through Bishop, where it's local police became involved, until a Nueces County Precinct 5 constable assumed the pursuit, Mendiola said.
As the pickup turned onto Interstate 37 in Calallen, Corpus Christi police were notified.
The exact cause of the rollover has not yet been determined.
U.S. Homeland Security and immigration and border patrol officials responded as Corpus Christi emergency medical first responders and police authorities worked the crash site for more than two hours.
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Thank you for taking the time to read my thread, because I'm just about ready to scream in frustration with the troubles my horse has been having.
To start with let me give you some bg info. My horse in question is a 7 year old Thoroughbred (unraced) and I've owned him since March. He's always been somewhat aggressive, and doesn't enjoy brushing, socializing with other horses (would rather eat them) nor does he enjoy riding.
We've had his hocks injected because there being insufficient fluids in the joints, and now have him on a supplement and an monthly injection (basically that is all taken care of)
He is entirely un-rideable, when we do attempt, he tries to bite either leg, occasionally rears, and attempts bucking (stopped by a firm hand on the reins) a month of re-building after the injection we thought would help with what we though was behavioral issues (brattyness) Well facts are he's still in pain and extremely girthy. To avoid the expensive scoping (in my area averaging one thousand or more) We are putting him on a Ulcer treatment, as well as an antiacid to help the healing and prevent flareups, however I'm not entirely convinced this is the solution to it all (I hope I'm wrong with those suspicions)
Basically my long drawn out question is
A) have you had horses with Ulcers before, and how did they act prior to treatment?
B) What other solutions you might suggest to look into if this in fact isn't the answer to all our prayers.
I really do appreciate everything!


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For ease of ordering and tracking, response assets need to be categorized via resource typing. Resource typing is the categorization and description of resources that are commonly exchanged in disasters via mutual aid, by capacity and/or capability. Through resource typing, disciplines examine resources and identify the capabilities of a resource's components (i.e., personnel, equipment, training). During a disaster, an emergency manager knows what capability a resource needs to have to respond efficiently and effectively. Resource typing definitions will help define resource capabilities for ease of ordering and mobilization during a disaster. As a result of the resource typing process, a resource's capability is readily defined and an emergency manager is able to effectively and efficiently request and receive resources through mutual aid during times of disaster. This document replaces the Emergency Medical Services resource definition section in Resource Definitions, dated May 2005.
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Cultural Constructions IV: War!
Symposium 9:00A.M.-6:00P.M. • April 22, 2011
Aggression is a defining human characteristic. Humanity's propensity for conflict permeates our relations at all levels.
This fourth bi-annual Cultural Constructions Symposium will explore issues dealing with aggression and conflict. The topic of war is to be broadly interpreted to include all forms of conflict, be it modern, ancient, internal, external, figurative or literal.


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Kissimmee, FL (Sports Network) - Brad Snyder hit a two-run home run in the first inning and Chris Snyder added a solo homer in the fourth as the Houston Astros posted a 4-1 win over the New York Mets in spring training action.
Wandy Rodriguez started for Houston and gave up one hit over three scoreless innings.
Josh Satin had two hits and drove in the only run for the Mets. Chris Schwinden got the start for New York and allowed three runs -- one earned -- over two innings of work.


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< Go back to Classrooms
By the end of the 5th grade, students should know that:
By the end of 8th grade, students should know that:
By the end of the 12th grade, students should know that:
National Science Education Standards
Grades K-4
The surface of the Earth changes. Some changes are due to slow processes, such as erosion and weathering, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
Grades 5-8
The earth processes we see today, including erosion, movement of lithospheric plates and changes in atmospheric composition, are similar to those that occurred in the past. Earth history is also influenced by occasional catastrophes, such as the impact of an asteroid or comet.
Energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, sound, nuclei, and the nature of a chemical. Energy is transferred in many ways.
Grades 9-12
Objects change their motion only when a net force is applied. Laws of motion are used to calculate precisely the effects of forces on the motion of objects. The magnitude of the change in motion can be calculated using the relationship F = ma, which is independent of the nature of the force. Whenever one object exerts force on another, a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction is exerted on the first object.
Gravitation is a universal force that each mass exerts on any other mass. The strength of the gravitational attractive force between two masses is proportional to the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.


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Archive - 2010 - Data Feed
December 30th
Data Feed: Star Trek The Complete Comic Book Collection ('67 - '02) DVD $6.99 From Amazon
We just ran across this amazing deal from Amazon and thought we would pass along the details. It looks like you can get all Star Trek comics issues from 1967 - 2002 plus every annual, all articles and advertisements in PDF form on one DVD. This includes all of the Gold Key & Western comics (featuring The Original Series), DC & Malibu Comics, Marvel Comics, & Wildstorm Comics. Over 500 issues in all. A pretty amazing deal for $6.99.
As Dr. Lazarus would say "What a savings..."CONTINUE READING >>
December 28th
Data Feed: Happy Birthday To Star Trek's Own Nichelle Nichols
It would seem that December is rife with Star Trek birthdays. Today is the birthday of our lovely Lt. Uhura, Star Trek's own Nichelle Nichols. Before joining the crew of the Enterprise in 1966, Nichelle was an accomplished theatrical actress and singer, touring with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton. As we reported earlier this year, she originally saw "Star Trek" as a way to further her career on Broadway.
"It was rather interesting to me to be cast on the show, because I came up in musical theater," Nichelle said. "And somehow I was, like, really on my way to break through and do all of the things that I really wanted to do on Broadway. And I took 'Star Trek' because I thought it would be a nice adjunct to my resume and I'd get to Broadway quicker and as a star. And, I still think that way, but 'Star Trek' interrupted my career."
"I kind of got stuck there," She said. "As a matter of fact, I even tried to leave after the first season, because I thought, 'Oh, this is going nowhere for me."CONTINUE READING >>
December 22nd
Data Feed: Geek Fights Best Star Trek Episode Finale
Well, it's here. The finale to beat all finales. Geek Fighters to your corners and let's get ready to rumble. You've heard the alpha and omega brackets and now it's time to find out; what's the best Star Trek episode ever. In this episode, all of the geek fighters return, Damon Shaw, Mike Ortiz, Paul Storrie, Barry Ingram, Darren Benjamin, Jerad Formby, Michael Felsher, your's truly, and Trek author Dayton Ward.
Geek Fights episode 28:
Wow, Trek geeks can really talk! This is it, the conclusion to our most intense fight ever. Nine geeks, one fight! Damon Shaw, Michael Ortiz, Chris Wood, Paul Storrie, Barry Ingram, Darren Benjamin, Jerad Formby, Michael Felsher, and special guest Dayton Ward reunite for the final showdown between The Inner Light and In The Pale Moonlight for the title BEST STAR TREK EPISODE! There is passion and pathos, conflict and comedy, inspiration and exaltation, everything that makes Star Trek great! (source Geekfights.net)
Download the episode here
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December 20th
Data Feed: Happy Birthday To Star Trek DS9's Nicole de Boer
Happy birthday to Nicole de Boer, she turns 40 today. Many of you remember Nicole as the second incarnation of Dax (or is that 11th); Ezri Dax from the last season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. After leaving DS9, Nicole went on to star opposite Anthony Michael Hall in "Stephen King's Dead Zone" from 2002 to 2007. According to IMDB, she also has several upcoming TV movies in the works.
Something we didn't know, she also had a small role in the Kids in the Hall movie "Brain Candy". Hailing from the Great White North, just like the "Kids", Nicole is currently married to film score composer John Kastner. We'd like to give warm birthday wishes to Nicole. Happy birthday.
Hat tip to Cmdr. Torkadon for giving us a heads up.
December 15th
Data Feed: Star Trek TNG's LeVar Burton Headed To "Community"
We just found out, via LeVar's twitter feed, that today he's on the set of the NBC hit "Community" filming an upcoming episode. Okay, we love "Community" and LeVar so, it's a perfect fit. He'll be playing himself in the episode and that's about all we know, but check out the tweets below with links to his call sheet and a pic with "Community" star Donald Glover.
With the very talented Donald Glover... @nbccommunity #bydhttmwfi http://twitpic.com/3g9b8w
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In this episode of @nbccommunity I play... #noauditionnecessary http://twitpic.com/3g8i6r
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Posted at: 12/12/2012 12:17 PM
Updated at: 12/12/2012 12:27 PM
By: WNYT Staff
Former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi is a free man.
He was released from prison this morning, after serving 20 months for his leading role in a scandal at the state's massive pension fund.
As comptroller, Hevesi was sole trustee of the fund now valued at nearly $150 billion.
The 72-year-old was granted parole in November.
He was released from prison in Oneida County around eight Wednesday morning.


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Fire Guts South Hills Home [AUDIO]
A house fire on Ebb Way in Missoula's South Hills sent plumes of oily black smoke that could be seen all over the Missoula valley on Wednesday afternoon.
A house fire on Ebb Way in Missoula's South Hills sent plumes of oily black smoke that could be seen all over the Missoula valley on Wednesday afternoon.
Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman says the reverse 9-1-1 system employed by fire and sheriff's authorities sent out an incorrect message to hundreds of homes and cell phones regarding certain areas in which residents could return to their homes.
Stage One Evacuation Notice due to the Sawtooth Fire.
The afternoon smoke is upon us again.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A member of an elite federal firefighting team says safety concerns kept the group from engaging a northern Idaho wildfire one day before a 20-year-old firefighter was killed.
Reports on the Idaho fires.
More lightning-caused fires are expected.
The Chrandal Creek fire, approximately 2 miles northwest of Irishmans Rock, in the Hughes Creek drainage is estimated to be 60 acres in size. The fire was lightning caused and was detected on Friday. Acting Bitterroot National Forest spokesperson Betsy Ballard says the fire behavior has been very active Saturday with trees torching and multiple fire spots outside the main fire perimeter. The fire is burning in subalpine fire and beetle killed lodgepole pine. Air support is being provided by 2 helicopters dropping buckets of water on the fire.
As temperatures change and we begin to see the leaves fall, fires season is winding down. State Prevention Specialist from the Montanan DNRC, Pat Cross says if someone is found responsible for starting a fire they will be held accountable
The Federal and state wildland fire agencies will rescind Stage 1 fire restrictions as of 12:01 am Wednesday, Sept 21. The Northern Rockies Coordination Group said the counties of west central Montana will also rescind their restrictions


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Below is the poem entitled A Trucker's Day which was written by poet
Robert A.
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A big Mack truck
Can get stuck good
In muck road ways.
Put on the chains
Traction gains hold
Hate rains in Spring.
It's a mell of a hess
But I guess a
Good test of nerves.
Then I'll get back
Wash the Mack and
then stack the chains.
End the day's strife
See my life love,
my wife. I'm home.


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The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability.
Cloud computing is a way to deliver computing resources, such as software, storage and virtual computing power, as services over the Internet. NASA launched the Nebula cloud computing platform to provide agency researchers with a range of services powerful enough to manage NASA's large-scale scientific data sets. Nebula offers unparalleled compute capability, storage and bandwidth to users at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
"We hope that OpenStack will form the foundation of a new open source cloud ecosystem," said NASA chief technology officer for Information Technology Chris C. Kemp. "With Nebula technology at the core of OpenStack, NASA will be uniquely positioned to drive standards that will ensure products and services powered by OpenStack will meet federal interoperability, portability, and security requirements."
OpenStack is the first large-scale open source cloud project of its kind and is expected to gather significant momentum in the cloud and open source communities.
"Nebula technology was selected for inclusion in the OpenStack project because of its massively scalable architecture and the high quality of its code," said Jim Curry, director of OpenStack.
The announcement coincides with O'Reilly Media's Open Source Developers Conference, which is taking place in Portland, Ore., this week.
"Participating in OpenStack will allow NASA to tap into a well-established community of open source developers and enable us to benefit from crowd-sourced development efforts," said Raymond O'Brien, Nebula's program manager.
Nebula is an agency-wide program and was one of three flagship initiatives highlighted in NASA's Open Government Plan.
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In Asia, the highest ranked institution is the University of Hong Kong (22nd globally), ahead of The University of Tokyo (25th globally), and National University of Singapore (NUS) (28th globally). Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has jumped up 16 places in 2011, ranked 58th in the world (a quantum leap from 74th place last year). This makes NTU one of the fastest-rising universities in the top 100 list.
In Australia, the highest ranked university is Australian National University (26th in the world). A total of 5 Australian institutions ranked in the global top 50. The others are: The University of Melbourne (31st), The University of Sydney (38th), The University of Queensland (48th), and The University of New South Wales (49th). Swinburne University of Technology has been ranked for the second consecutive year in the top 450 universities in the world by the QS World University Rankings. With an estimated 15,000 universities world wide, this ranking puts Swinburne in the top three per cent of universities in the world.
The top 10 universities in the world:
1 University of Cambridge
2 Harvard University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 Yale University
5 University of Oxford
6 Imperial College London
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Top Philippine universities fared poorly in this year's world university rankings by a respected London-based agency—an underwhelming rating linked by Filipino experts in higher education to declining government support.
None of the country's elite schools made it to the top 300 in the latest rankings for 2011-12 released on Monday by the London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company specializing in education and study abroad.
While still the top Filipino school on the list, the University of the Philippines was ranked 332, falling 18 spots from the 314th place last year. Ateneo de Manila University placed 360th, down from 307th place last year.
Two other universities slipped farther down the list, with De La Salle University dropping from the 451-500 bracket last year to the 551-600 bracket this year. The University of Santo Tomas was out of the top 600 list, down to the 601+ bracket from the 551-600 bracket last year.
QS assesses world schools based on academic performance and employer feedback. The company surveyed 32,000 academics and 16,000 employers this year, describing the initiative as the "largest of its kind ever conducted."
The index measures how universities fare in the following: academic reputation (40 percent), faculty citations (20 percent), faculty-student ratio (20 percent), employee reputation (10 percent), number of international students (5 percent) and proportion of international faculty (5 percent.)
Questions on the methodology of the QS survey have been raised, but the rankings are still recognized and reported globally as an index of the world's best higher education institutions. UP does not participate in the survey.
"This may come as a disappointment, but possibly not a surprise as thousands of students recently took to the streets in protest of the government's budget cuts in higher education," QS noted in a statement to the Inquirer.
The Aquino administration last year cut the government subsidy to state colleges and universities, prompting these schools to raise tuition and other fees. State subsidy for these institutions has decreased from P25.36 billion in 2009 to P23.4 billion this year.
Of the four universities on this year's QS list, only UP is state-funded. No other state university made the QS top 600 list.
Student groups have been protesting the budget cuts, saying this has further limited access to quality education among the poor.
Tragic and embarrassing
Danilo Arao, head of the UP System Information, said that the UP administration would "work harder" to improve its QS ranking.
He said UP president Alfredo Pascual was to outline his vision for UP as a "great university" in his investiture address on Sept. 15.
Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatino said the ranking "exposes the tragic and embarrassing Philippine education crisis."
The National Union of Students of the Philippines said the QS survey should serve as a "wake-up call" for the Aquino administration to boost its support to state schools.
John O'Leary, a QS advisory board member, noted that nations like Germany, Japan and South Korea had kept their universities—among them state-funded—within the top bracket through investments in education. The contrary has happened to countries that have less.
Top Asian universities, mainly leading institutions in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China, landed on the top 50, alongside European and American schools.
The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom topped the survey for the second consecutive year, edging out other consistent top five schools including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and Oxford, QS said.
"The [rankings] give a clear illustration of the link between investment and results in higher education," O'Leary said. He said countries that had cut funding for higher education saw a gradual decline in the international standing of their universities.


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SXSW 2012: Critic's Notebook #1by Steve Dollar It's King Kelly's world. We just live in it. In Andrew Neel's hectic feature, a teenage sexpot—played by Louisa Krause, in a radical (and rad!) gear-shift from her role as Lizzie Olsen's docile indoctrinator in Martha Marcy May Marlene—riots through the world as the director and star of her own 24-hour reality event: Her life is a performance is an unending digital stream, piped from her cell phone to an audience of pervs with screen names like Poo Bare and a laughing chorus of YouTube commenters. The film, which premiered at the 2012 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival, might have been tailored specifically for the event's mushrooming interactive component (now reported to be a bigger draw than the film and music portions combined). Kelly is, to paraphrase the theme song from Drive, "a real human being," but she's also a construct, a phenomenon, a symptom, a trainwreck, a superstar. Neel, whose live-action gamer documentary Darkon won a 2006 audience award at SXSW, has some background in meta-reality filmmaking. His 2008 film The Feature, co-directed with French artist and Warhol scenester Michel Auder, framed footage sourced from its subject's autobiographical video archives with new material that played around with Auder's contemporary persona. In Auder's 1960s heyday, of course, video was a kind of avant-garde form, an art project that became inseparable from the artist's life. For Kelly, a blonde Narcissus in American flag panties, booty-shaking and motor-mouthing her way to glory from her suburban bedroom, life without POV video isn't living. Yet, in a way, she's still an ongoing performance art project—it's actual people who then pose tactical and strategic problems. The project, which is shot entirely on a cell phone and a cheap Canon digital camera—pretty much as you see it onscreen—quickly takes the form of a sex comedy-cum-thriller as a stolen car, a cache of missing drugs, a ridiculously out-of-hand Fourth of July party and a rogue New Jersey state trooper send the movie crashing into a series of catastrophes, forecast by Kelly's aside to her "biffle" Jordan (Libby Woodbridge) as she snorts up a baggie of ketamine: "Oh, it's going to be one of those nights." Indeed it is. Propelled by Krause's charismatic performance, the film intends to be a commentary on what it presents, but that never keeps it from being absurdly entertaining, even as it illustrates how life in middle-class America has become a degraded digital fantasy. Bobcat Goldthwait would see this as pure documentary. The neurotic comedian turned auteur was back with another savage satire in God Bless America. Like King Kelly, it takes significant inspiration from Natural Born Killers, although much more directly: Joel Murray (Mad Men) plays a corporate office drone stuck in middle-aged limbo who decides he's suffered enough from the erosion of common decency. After losing his job and discovering his bratty daughter doesn't want to visit him anymore, a visit to the doctor reveals he has an inoperable brain tumor. Years of fantasizing the assassination of shrill reality TV show stars and American Idol judges, not to mention his shithead neighbors raging banal on the other side of his thin duplex wall, suddenly become tantalizingly real. And it's off to the races, with a cheery, psycho accomplice—Tara Lynne Barr's apple-cheeked schoolgirl—providing moral support, tactical advice and creeping him out with come-hither eyelash batting. The film's best moments are not so much its speechifying about the decline in American behavior and surging tide of general douche-baggery. 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Set on the same day, the story follows the glamorous wedding party of a stunning couple, Clara (Leticia Dolera) and Koldo (Diego Martin), surrounded by loving family at a romantic estate in the countryside. The celebration is going full swing but there are hints of trouble: an uncle has been doddering about with a strange look in his eyes, nursing an unexplained wound on his arm. And who are those guys in the yellow hazmat suits poking through the gardens? The film's tongue-in-cheek tone serves a slow build-up, as the wedding videographer (a Guillermo Del Toro look-alike) mentors a young cousin with a handicam on the art of cinema as their POV shots fill the screen. By the time the party's crashed by some remarkably athletic zombies executing dashing parkour moves, the movie's signature video conceit is tossed aside for more traditional form. Even without the handheld hijinks, the movie succeeds as a bracing thriller with plenty of jump scares, some religious mumbo-jumbo to keep the zombies frozen in their tracks quivering to some weird mambo rhythms in their undead mental jukeboxes, and, more so than its predecessors, a social comedy about Spanish family dynamics that offers its home audience a ton of inside jokes.
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In May of this past season, the Cubs signed 23 year-old first baseman Anthony Rizzo to a 7-year/$41 million extension, despite having played roughly one full season in the majors to that point.
Seen as a foundational piece in the coming wave of Cubs prospects (Javier Baez, Jorge Soler, Kris Bryant, C.J. Edwards, Albert Almora, etc.), Rizzo is expected to be a middle of the order bat with significant power for years to come.
Despite his lack of major league playing time, one could see why the Cubs made a risky long term investment on Rizzo. Between two AAA seasons in 2011 and 2012, Rizzo batted an unheard of .336/.405/.670 (that's a combined 1.075 OPS), with 49 HR.
He twice was a Baseball America top 50 prospect, and in six minor league seasons, he never once finished with an OPS below .800. At the point of signing his extension (May 13), Rizzo was batting .278/.348/.527 with 9 HR and 29 RBI in only 38 games.
At the time, it was seen by many as a smart, aggressive move by a rejuvenated front office. Many applauded the potential savings involved in paying Rizzo an AAV of $5.85 million, when through succeeding years of arbitration his cost could otherwise skyrocket beyond that figure (presuming he lived up to his pedigree).
However, much like fellow Cubs future-bearer Starlin Castro, the rest of 2013 wasn't up to par with the beginning of the season. In 122 remaining games, Rizzo batted only .218/.316/.384 with 14 HR and 52 RBI. So which is the real Rizzo?
Is he the pedigreed prospect seen the past two seasons in AAA, and in flashes in the major league level? Is he just adjusting to stronger competition while still a relatively young player?
Or is he more of a low-batting average, spotty power kind of player like many of the Mariners prospects seem to be turning into? His inability to play any position other than first, and lack of speed also exaggerate any deficiencies with his bat. Is his seemingly bargain contract going to be haunting the Cubs in year five or six?
The real question is: What is the Rizzo's true ceiling, and is he going to be able to reach it?
Anthony Rizzo is never going to win a batting title, or be a threat on the basepaths. In his best seasons, Rizzo should also prove to be an average/very-slightly-above average defensive first baseman.
However, given his early scouting reports, results in AAA and his performance in spots in the Bigs, if he can keep the strikeouts down, Rizzo could be an above-average clean-up hitter for the Cubs.
In fact, I'd feel confident predicting that down the road, he could have a season stat-line not terribly far off from his prior referenced April 1 – May 13 period (around .275/.350/.500, with 30+/100+ HR/RBI pace).
Obviously, a line like that would make any questions about his contract's practicality moot.
He's an imperfect player, but pretty good at several important things (power, first base defense, average) that could relatively easily come together for several seasons.
In the long run, I believe his brief Major League career to this point (less than two full seasons) will be viewed as a player who has been relatively young for his level (21-23) and in the process of developing.
Rizzo will make some moderate progress in 2014, with an outside chance of breaking out (4.0+ WAR). By 2015, expect Rizzo's contract to become one of the best values in baseball as he enters his prime seasons of 25 and older.
Led by Rizzo, Castro, and the boatful of new prospects on their way to Chicago, the future looks bright for the Cubs. That's an odd sentence to have to write.
Spencer Bingol is a Staff Writer for Pro Sports Extra.


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Students Share Insights Into History and Philosophy of Computing
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 the students of Comp 280 "History and Philosophy of Computing" organized a poster session on topics from the history of computing (e.g., Mayan numerals, the Divine proportion, the perception of early computers, Frege's logic, history of AI, computer bugs, and video game controllers). The posters were exhibited on the 2nd floor of Trottier and they attracted a fair number of students who were curious to learn about the origins of computing. The event was organized in collaboration with the Computer Science Undergraduate Society (CSUS).
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