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Big 12 power rankings: Texas gaining momentum heading into pivotal matchup with sliding Baylor
Here are our Big 12 power rankings following the 14th week of the college football season.
1. Oklahoma State (10-1, 7-1)
Previous ranking: 1st
The Cowboys had a bye week this week. They'll play for the Big 12 title against No. 18 Oklahoma on Dec. 7 at 11 a.m. CT on ABC.
2. Oklahoma (9-2, 6-2)
Previous ranking: 2nd
The Sooners also had a bye week this week. Even though they may not admit it, Texas Longhorns fans and Baylor Bears fans are going to root for the Sooners next weekend.
3. Texas (8-3, 7-1)
Previous ranking: 4th
Take a step back look at what's happened with Mack Browns' team since they started 1-2. All the Longhorns have done is win seven of eight conference games, with the lone loss coming against a team that could be the conference champion. The defense has stepped up in recent weeks, except against Oklahoma State, and played a major factor in the win against Texas Tech. Jackson Jeffcoat was a monster. The defense looked like the preseason defense everyone thought would dominate the conference. Brown has to be ecstatic about facing a struggling Baylor offense with a chance to win the conference title after nearly being outcast by the fans and media only a few months ago.
4. Baylor (10-1, 7-1)
Previous ranking: 3rd
Before you get all crazy about Baylor being fourth, this is a power rankings that represents where the team is at during this moment in time, not in the scope of the entire season. Baylor's offense is slowing down and the injuries are piling up making it tougher on the Bears to play at the high level that they were at to start the year. The Bears survived in Fort Worth opening up Pandora's box in the process. Baylor still has a shot at winning the Big 12 title. They'll need to defeat Texas at home this weekend and hope that Oklahoma can take down Oklahoma State.
5. Kansas State (7-5, 5-4)
Previous ranking: 5th
Who needs to throw the ball when you can run over your opponent? John Hubert had a career day rushing for 220 yards on 30 carries against a Kansas defense that was overmatched. The Wildcats have been one of the best turnaround stories in the conference. After starting the season 2-4 and 0-3 in the conference the Wildcats clawed their way back to have a record over the .500 mark. That puts this Wildcat team in elite company. Before this season started, teams that started with the record that Kansas State had gone to a bowl game only 3 percent of the time (18 of 596 teams).
Previous ranking: 8th
Oh boy. First, here's what started the whole Gary Patterson/Ahmad Dixon controversy. That led to Patterson questioning the class of Art Briles and a five-minute rant on the issue. The comments should make the TCU-Baylor rivalry even more fun in the future. But back to the game. Where was this TCU team all season? The defense was making plays all over the field, the rushing game returned for the Frogs and Casey Pachall – aside from the two interceptions that led to Baylor touchdowns – played relatively well. Brandon Carter even stepped up in the receiving portion of the game. Maybe that is why Patterson was so heated after the game. This TCU team had some potential but never lived up to any of it. Patterson called the game against Baylor their bowl game, and the Frogs came up short, again.
7. Texas Tech (7-5, 4-5)
Previous ranking: 6th
The ultimate collapse was capped off with a terrible loss to Texas. After starting 7-0 and achieving the No. 10 ranking in the nation the Red Raiders lost their fifth game to start the season. As Mike Graham writes, the offensive line was terrible giving up nine sacks to the Texas defense. Baker Mayfield has caught a lot of flak for having an off game, but with the time he had in the backfield it's understandable as to why he struggled. Kliff Kingsbury's team still has a shot to end the season on a high note with a bowl game.
8. Iowa State (3-9, 2-7)
Previous ranking: 9th
After stomping on Kansas a week ago, Iowa State concluded its season on a winning streak (!!) after taking down West Virginia in overtime in one of the more impressive wins of the Big 12 season. At one point Iowa State was down 31-7 in the second quarter and yet found a way to come back. Grant Rohach has been one of the hottest quarterbacks of late and he kept his solid streak going with a five-touchdown performance. He led the team to its best offensive performance of the season in terms of total yards, passing yards and rushing yards. The season overall may have not been as successful as Paul Rhoads may have liked, but they'll head into the next season with momentum with the two wins.
9. Kansas (3-9, 1-8)
Previous ranking: 10th
When you turn the ball over six times it's going to be tough to win ballgames. Charlie Weis' team did look like it had a chance getting the score from 21-0 to 21-10 in the second quarter, but the Wildcats ran past them in the second half. One of the few bright sports for Kansas all year has been running back James Sims. The senior is one of two backs to surpass the 1,000-yard mark leading the Big 12 in rushing yards with 1,110. That tops his mark of 1,013 a year ago.
10. West Virginia (4-8, 2-7)
Previous ranking: 7th
You know who should be most upset about the West Virginia loss? Oklahoma State. With the chaos atop the BCS now that Alabama has lost the Cowboys could be in the mix for a national title. But the loss to WVU earlier is going to hurt them in the standings. After the monumental collapse and loss to Iowa State, head coach Dana Holgorsen told the media that his team couldn't close out games this season. He said that teams have to a 'burning desire to win.' They executed well in the first half scoring more points in a half than it had all season with 31. But then the wheels fell off. When we're at the starting point for next season I still don't know if we'll be able to figure out how this team defeated Oklahoma State. The loss is looking really, really bad after the Mountaineers finished their season with losses to both Kansas and Iowa State.
Baylor's bowl options still include BCS contests, Orange Bowl is even a possibility
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Possible position change causes 3-star TE John Thomas to decommit from Texas
Baylor has first 100-point game of season in rout of Hardin-Simmons, Cory Jefferson records fourth double-double
Best in Texas breakdown, Week 14: Don't look now, but Longhorns inching closer to Aggies, Bears


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My Media Center Goal
I've gotten some emails about my recent rounds with Windows Media Center with various suggestions and concerns and it made me realize that I may not have been clear about what I'm trying to accomplish with the media center. As such, here's what I'm trying to achieve:
- On-demand style access to my large selection of DVDs. I would like to be able to browse through the set, select one to watch, and watch it. Better still would be the ability to search for a particular genre, actor, or title if I'm thinking about one of those things to help me in finding something to watch. I have come to discover that several folks don't actually re-watch DVDs, or aren't interested in that sort of thing. I do re-watch my movies and enjoy them, hence my investment, but as the collection has grown, the convenience of finding the movie I'm looking for and getting things all set up has become lacking - it's a pain, so we find ourselves not making as much use of them as I'd like.
- Ease of use. Whatever the solution is, I'd like it to be an easy thing to use. The whole problem right now is that finding the DVD to watch is cumbersome; this shouldn't be just as cumbersome or we won't use it.
- Ease of setup/maintenance. I don't want to have to spend my life trying to set the thing up and tweak and tweak and tweak to get it to go. This sort of rules out many of the Linux-based solutions I've seen. (Granted, this is somewhat colored by my experience level with various OS setup/troubleshooting - I'm a Windows guy, and I can probably manage with the simplified UI of MacOS, but I'm not eager to get into what I feel is an overly-complex console interface. And, yes, this is a personal thing - some folks might feel the Windows solution would be more cumbersome. This isn't a point for debate.)
- Use this system as a backup for my DVDs. My dad has had discs go bad and I'm sure I've got some, too. I'd like to be able to re-create the movies as needed should the disc go bad.
- No lost features/quality. I paid for the whole DVD. I don't want to watch movies in a lower quality (re-encoded/compressed) than they appear on the DVD. I also paid for the extra features - deleted scenes, etc. I want access to those. Note that I can give a little on this if there is at least a path to get from the lower-quality/lower-access solution to the complete solution.
- Extensibility. If I need more storage, if I want to add access to the collection from a different room... I want the system to be extensible. This is a fairly all-inclusive general statement.
- Cost. I don't want it to cost a lot. If it looks like it's going to be, I'd like to be able to add to the system in increments rather than having a large up-front investment.
I am specifically not concerned with recording TV, streaming audio, or really any other features of the Media Center. If they're there, so much the better. If not, it's not a deal-breaker.
That's what I'm aiming for. Next stop - actual hardware!

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Friday, August 19, 2011
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A while ago, I saw a news story about a young pastor, with a wife and five children, who has taken into his home a man who's just recently been released from prison. The man is living in the pastor's basement and looking for a job and being with the family for every meal, every outing, really every moment.
Pretty amazing! What's even more amazing is that the man was convicted of murdering a young child –– a particularly heinous crime by anyone's standards.
The folks in the neighborhood and the nearby town are infuriated –– especially those with children. They're protesting in front of the pastor's home, and no one will hire the man, and they tell interviewers that the pastor has no right to jeopardize the whole town that way.
The pastor, though, says that the man received Jesus 16 years ago, and has become a devout Christian living a very good life –– no threat to anyone. In a word, the pastor says, he's CHANGED.
And, of course, the big question in the news story was, "Can someone really change?" The pastor says, "Yes." And the townspeople say, "No way."
What does scripture say? CAN a person really change?
Much of the Old Testament concerns the ongoing relationship between God and his people. A pattern can be seen repeatedly. The Law is given, and the people promise to obey. They break the Law and push God out of their lives. God calls to them to repent and return to him. Occasionally they actually do this, but it never seems to last too long.
God continues to call his people back to him. When they refuse and harden their hearts, bad things start happening –– they're defeated in battle, they're exiled, the temple is destroyed, all kinds of things. Finally, they get it and repent, turning back to God. God's arms are still open, and he and his children are reconciled again.
Until the next time!
I have no idea how many laws are on the books today, but crimes are still being committed, speed limits being exceeded, people stealing from, and hurting, other people. It doesn't matter how many laws there are, or how good and sensible and right they are –– most of us just keep breaking the law, in one way or another.
Well, CAN a person really change? It seems that if we're counting on laws that are imposed from the outside to change us, we'll be disappointed. Make all the rules you want; most of us just keep doing what we want to do. The only way a person can change is from the inside out.
"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord says in Jeremiah. "I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
THIS is a very different story.
How does God write his law on our hearts? Well, I honestly believe that God has more grace than we're sometimes able to receive. There are many New Testament scriptures that talk about running the race, striving, resisting sin; but there are even more that talk about "letting." LET the Word of Christ dwell in you richly; LET the peace of Christ dwell in your hearts; LET the Spirit fill you–– and fill the church as well.
I Peter says we are to LET ourselves be built into a spiritual house. This paints a different picture, not so much about running and striving, but about opening ourselves to God and LETTING him write his law –– the law of love and grace –– on our hearts.
Out of his great love for us, God sent us a Savior, a Redeemer … Jesus Christ. He paid the final price for our stubborn pattern of sinfulness, and rejection of God. Because of Jesus, we can come to God in humility and honesty, and receive forgiveness. If we LET him, God will demonstrate his grace to us all the time, always and forever. If we LET him, God really will write his law on our hearts –– through our experiences, our shortcomings, our triumphs … through teaching, and prayer, and study.
If we LET Jesus in, we'll be so grateful for who he is and all he's done, that we'll want to be true to him. If we LET him, God will, over time, change us from the inside out, the only way people can really change at all.
Has the man in the news story really changed? I honestly don't know. At this point, only God knows for sure. But CAN he change? Oh, yes. If he really lets God in, God can change him from the inside out.
With Jesus, the entire Law is summed up very simply: Love God. Love each other.
This is what God will write on our hearts, and the more we let him in, the more we'll change. Don't resist! It's all about humility and honesty. If we let him in, God will do the rest, and our changed lives will show his grace and our gratitude to all.
Rev. Susan Bennett is pastor of Stockbridge Presbyterian Church. She and her husband live in Stockbridge with two giant Rottweilers and a 15-pound rescue dog who is the boss of everybody.
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- It's all in your mind — Susan Bennett ( January 13, 2012 )


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Hi there, does anyone have the recipe for the donner kebab please. Also any idea where I could buy extra lean lamb mince. Thank you so much x
Hi there, does anyone have the recipe for the donner kebab please. Also any idea where I could buy extra lean lamb mince. Thank you so much x
I bought mine from my local butcher! Most supermarket lamb is just low fat......
Hi, this is the Doner Kebab Recipe - just wrote it out for a friend so might as well pop it here - sorry it's a week late, only just joined
Doner Kebab
Serves 4
Free on Extra Easy and Original Plan
8 syns on Green Plan
Ready in 2 hours plus chilling and resting
Low calories cooking spray
1 onion finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, crushed
500g extra lean beef mince
half tsp ginger
1 tsp ground cumin
quarter tsp cinnamon
1 tsp paprika
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tbsp Mixed dried herbs or dried parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Iceberg lettuce leaves, shredded
half a red onion, sliced
4 tomatoes, sliced
4 large bottled gherkins drained and sliced
lemon wedges to serve
(Add 1 level tbsp of chilli sauce to your kebab for just half a syn)
Spray a large heavy based non stick pan with low cal cooking spray and place over a low heat.
Add the onion and cook for 12-15 mins until softened and lightly browned.
Transfer the onion to a food processor and add the garlic, beef, ginger, cumin, cinnamon, paprika, egg and dried mixed herbs. Season well and blend until fairly smooth. Turn out into a bowl.
Spoon the mixture into a non stick loaf tin and pat down. Cover and chill for 4 hours or overnight.
When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 180C (gas mark 4)
Cover the loaf tin with foil and bake for 1 hour 20 mins. Remove and drain off any liquid then return it to the oven uncovered for 10-12 mins.
Let it rest in the tin for 12-15 mins then remove the meat and slice thinly
Divide the lettuce and other salad ingredients onto plates top with the meat and serve with lemon wedges.


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Verifone cuts Sail, pulls out of mobile card payments
updated 03:25 pm EST, Fri December 14, 2012
Mobile payments deemed 'fundamentally unprofitable'
Payment processor VeriFone is withdrawing from the mobile card payments market, citing "razor-thin margins." The decision to shutter Square-competitor Sail came to light during a quarterly conference call, with CEO Doug Bergeron calling the market for low-volume merchant processing as "fundamentally unprofitable."
Sail opened for business earlier this year, offering customers a card reader that plugs into a smartphone, and while offering competitive rates of 2.7-percent of a transaction as a service charge, Sail also allowed customers to pay $10 per month to drop that rate down to 1.95-percent. By bundling a barcode scanning feature into the supplied app, it gave the option of cashier-free checkouts.
VeriFone will not shut off the Sail service completely, but will prevent new customers from signing up. Existing card reader owners will receive third-party partner customer support as well as maintain existing hardware and payment gateways, according to TechCrunch. Though the system will no longer be offered in the US, a version for markets using chip-and-pin instead of magnetic strips in their cards is apparently in the works.


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Stop by our studios 2301 South Neil after 7AM and pick up a dozen roses. You keep one and hand out the other 11 to friends, co-workers and strangers. Thanks Bloosom Basket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday's quiz question answer......Endless Summer Nights
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is Good Neighbor Day and we will be handing out free roses between 7AM and 9AM here at our studios 2301 South Neil (Neil & Windsor). Pick up a dozen roses thanks to Bloosom Basket. Keep one rose for yourself, hand out the 11 others to friends and strangers. Thanks again Bloosom Basket for letting us be a part of your special day!
Thanks for the great support of the United Way's Stuff the Bus on Wednesday. While I don't have the final count, it was very cool to see so many people stopping by and dropping off items.
The third annual "Stuff The Bus" event is Wednesday and again this year we need your help. The United Way of Champaign County collecting items for 37 agencies. The day begins with a drive thru at our studios 2301 South Neil, corner of Neil and Windsor.
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Thanks everyone for a wonderful birthday weekend. I am very low key about events like this in my life. Long time morning show listeners know I love the opportunity to mention birthdays of listeners throughout the year. I try to get through the morning show without mentioning my special day but my wife always makes sure everybody at the station remembers the day.
I appreciate Lee Marcus changing his life around to fill in for me the last several days. If you are not doing this on a regular basis it is a jolt to the system to get up at 3:35 morning after morning. Not many people are ready for bed at 9PM.
Thanks Lee!
Another 4th of July Parade has come and gone. While it was hot, I sure had a great time. Love shaking hands and saying hi to so many people. I also enjoy walking with Dave Loane as he and I walked our first parade together 34 years ago. Thanks to Brian Barnhart and Alli along with my kids who walked with us.
Looking forward to walking with my co-workers Wednesday in the 4th of July Parade put on by the Champaign County Freedome Celebration Committee.
See you along the parade route.
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What does BACON stand for?
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Intelligent Control and Cooperation
for Mobile Robots
I am making available to the public some of the tools I have developed for the control of autonomous vehicles during my years as a Master and PhD student at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a graduate research assistant at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute. If you need Simulink blocks for communication using UDP packets or serial ports, support for GigE cameras, Simulink models of rotorcraft, ideas for hardware and software design of embedded sensing devices and intelligent control algorithms for robots, then you might find something interesting here.
Part of my work was supported by the following grants:
- F.L. Lewis, "Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Continuous Time Systems and Networked Agents on Graphs," NSF grant, July 2008
- F.L. Lewis, "Supervisory Control and Nonlinear Motion Control of Networked Autonomous Teams," ARO MIPR extension grant, July 2008
- F.L. Lewis and Weijen Lee, "Secure and Reliable Wireless Communication and Fault Diagnosis for Energy Control Systems," Dept. of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase II, through SignalPro, Inc., PI Chiman Kwan, October 2008
- F.L. Lewis, "Trust Based Collaborative Control for Teams on Communication Networks," Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), April 2009
- F.L. Lewis, "High Performance Intelligent Controller for Systems with Unknown Dynamics," DARPA SBIR Phase I, through Signal Processing, Inc, PI Chiman Kwan, June 2009
Quaternion-Based Quadrotor Control
This article presents a structured flight controller for the quadrotor platform developed at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute. A simplified model is developed and its parameters are identified. It is used to design a proportional controller for stabilizing the attitude and the altitude. Quaternion representation is employed.
The testbed for the experiments consists in a quadrotor platform with on-board sensors and brushless motors, a ground computer and a remote control. The control algorithms are implemented in Simulink on the ground computer and run directly in the Matlab environment in normal or accelerated mode, allowing an instant transition between design and experiments.
|Overall control structure for the quadrotor
Instead of the joysticks on the remote control, a pilot can use a second quad-rotor electronic board equipped with sensors to control the vehicle in a more intuitive manner. By tilting the board in different directions the pilot gives a vector velocity reference to the quadrotor. The compass is used on both the pilot board and the vehicle board such that independent of the yaw angle, the quadrotor follows the commands given by the pilot in the correct direction in the inertial reference frame. This greatly simplifies the work of the pilot and allows persons that have no previous training to control the vehicle in a natural way.
Approximate Dynamic Programming
There is currently a dichotomy between optimal control and adaptive control:
- Adaptive Control algorithms learn online and give controllers with guaranteed performance for unknown systems
- Optimal Control design is performed off line and requires full knowledge of the system dynamics
In this research we designed an Optimal Adaptive Controller, which learns online in real-time and converges to optimal control solutions. For linear time-invariant systems, these controllers solve the Riccati equation online in real-time by using data measured along the system trajectories. These results show how to approximately solve the optimal control problem for nonlinear systems online in real-time, while simultaneously guaranteeing that the closed-loop system is stable, i.e. that the state remains bounded. This solution requires knowledge of the plant dynamics, but in future work it is possible to implement algorithms that only know the structure of the system and not the exact dynamics.
An actor-critic structure is used for implementing efficient reinforcement learning in real-time:
|Generic Approximate Dynamic Programming structure
UAVdesign.net Simulink Blockset
The UAVdesign.net blockset contains Simulink blocks that can be used for implementing control algorithms and hardware interfaces for unmanned robots.
|UAVdesign.net Simulink Blockset
The most important blocks are the following:
- quaternion math
- numeric perturbation methods for Simulink models
- condinuous-discrete Kalman filter
- continuous-discrete integrator that supports quaternions
- Remote Signals blocks that allow Embedded Matlab code to run Simulink subsystems programmatically
- helicopter model
- quadrotor model
- Serial Port (using packets)
- UDP packets
- GigE Camera
All the S-functions have source code that is compatible with both Linux and Windows (32 and 64-bit). The code can be used in Normal mode, Rapid Accelerator mode and External mode.
|Quadrotor trimming and simulation for forward flight
Quadrotor Platform
I have selected a quadrotor as an implementation platform for optimal-adaptive control algorithms. The quadrotor is unstable, and so makes an excellent platform for testing the suitability and effectiveness of control algorithms. Its dynamics are nonlinear, but relatively simple so that nonlinear control schemes can be designed and compared. Yet the quadrotor has enough nonlinearities to pose a meaningful challenge to controller design methods. The quadrotor is highly susceptible to wind gust disturbances, so that disturbance rejection capabilities of proposed controllers can be tested.
|Quadrotor platform for research
The mechanical platform for the quadrotor is custom-built because the commercial versions available at the time were either unreliable or too expensive. The outside perimeter is surrounded by carbon fiber rods to prevent damage to the rotors in case of collisions.
|Attitude estimation using the on-board sensors
All-wheel-drive Ground Robot
The ground robot platform is actually a four-wheel-drive wheelchair. We wanted a large and reliable mechanical platform that could operate outside. The commercial robots were too expensive so I have decided to buy a wheelchair and replace its electronic system with our own, more advanced custom design. We didn't need the chair, although as a later thought it would have been interesting to let ourselves in the hands of our own control algorithms.
|Ground robot in the parking lot at ARRI
The wheelchair is manufactured by Magic Mobility and can carry a maximum load of 180 kg over a range of 30 km using its two 12V, 74Ah lead-acid batteries. Its length is 1.15 meters. The maximum speed that can be reached is of about 8 km/h. It has passive steering for the front wheels. The heading is changed based on the relative speed of the front wheels without any additional motor for this function. Due to the external forces acting on the wheels, a closed-loop system was necessary to maintain the stability of the heading angle and to prevent the wheels from going the full way towards left or right.
|CPU and FPGA board for the encoder/motor controller
The encoders installed on the wheel shafts are magnetic in order to increase reliability compared to optical solutions. A FPGA based system inside the motor controller converts the pulses into displacement and speed information with increased resolution by measuring also the width of the encoder pulses. This mechanism provides very accurate speed information even at low speeds.
Joker 2 Electric Helicopter
The mechanical platform is a Joker 2 fully aerobatic electric helicopter, manufactured by Minicopter Germany. The main rotor has a Bell-Hiller stabilizer bar, but it can be replaced with a rigid rotor head with no stabilizer bar at all, for improved 3D aerobatic maneuverability.
|Joker 2 Autonomous Electric Helicopter
The choice of an electric helicopter instead of one powered by a combustion engine was due to system identification issues because of the fuel consumption and the change of the helicopter mass, which makes it impossible to obtain consistent measurements at every experiment. It is also easier to work with electric motors instead of combustion engines that have to be periodically tuned and have to be started manually.
Formation of Small Ground Robots
Motion path planning is the process of finding a continuous path from an initial position to a prescribed final position (goal) without collision. Artificial potential field methods for obstacle avoidance have gained increased popularity among researchers in the field of mobile robots. It is generally easy to develop centralized algorithms that apply potential field methods for all robots based on complete information about their state variables. For many applications, distributed control algorithms are required to operate on each mobile robot under conditions of restricted communication channels between the robots.
|Human-Robot interface for mission planning
The testbed for the experiments consists in a set of different mobile robot platforms with the model following model but with different parameters that result in different dynamics. Currently there are three types of robots, shown in the figure.
|Communication graph between nodes in the formation
Each robot has on-board electronics that provides radio communication, controls the linear velocity and the heading rate using PID controllers and measures the linear acceleration, the wheels speed and the heading rate. Each robot can receive the sensor information from any other robot by radio. The same information can optionally be received by a computer that can implement centralized control or can simulate distributed control. The graph structure that describes the communication links between the robots is dictated by the actual communication conditions where some robots are too far away from others and can not maintain a reliable link with all the members of the formation, or do not have the resources to do so. The sample rate is 20 Hz. For ease of implementation and for testing various graph configurations, the formation is controlled by a computer that holds all the state information from all the robots but simulates the local, distributed control algorithms.


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The Basics
Record: 1-1
When: Saturday, 6 p.m.
Where: Memphis
TV: Fox Sports South
Scouting the Tigers' offense
Scoring: 18 ppg (n/a)
Total: 323.5 ypg (n/a)
Passing: 131.5 ypg (n/a)
Rushing: 192 ypg (T-32nd in FCS)
He's the man
» Telvin Hooks, RB: The 5-10, 190-pound sophomore is expected to step up this year. He rushed for 475 yards and averaged 5.7 yards per carry.
The buzz
» The Tigers are losing key starters from last year, including all-conference running back Trabis Ward, who led the conference in attempts (309) and touchdowns (15). Rogers Gaines, a 6-foot-7, 320-pound left tackle, opened up holes for Ward but won't return. The Tigers are establishing a new running game but are returning their starting quarterback Michael German, who completed 215 of 358 passes for 2,751 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Scouting the Tigers' defense
Scoring: 9.5ppg (7th)
Total: 208 ypg (2nd)
Passing: 93.8 ypg (8th)
Rushing: 92 ypg (21st)
He's the man
» Stephen Godbolt III, CB: The junior led FCS with six interceptions.
Tigers' schedule
9-1 at Bethune-Cookman L 12-9
9-7 at Florida A&M W 27-7
9-14 vs. Jackson State
9-21 at Tennessee Tech
9-28 at Central State
10-5 vs. Southeast Missouri State
10-12 at Jacksonville State
10-19 at UT Martin
10-26 vs. Eastern Illinois
11-2 at Eastern Kentucky
11-9 vs. Austin Peay
11-16 vs. Murray State
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IGNORE ADVICE: The city of Detroit has declared bankruptcy. But the scary part is that Detroit is what President Barack Obama wants to fundamentally transform America into, namely a place where wealth is redistributed, not created, and where government pickers winners and losers in an economy in which we will all ultimately lose. When Obama spoke at Ohio State University in May, he told graduates not to listen to "voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems." Detroit didn't listen to those voices, but the rest of us should ignore Obama's bad advice and listen before all of America becomes like Detroit.
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An investigation into claims and liens against Michael Stickler and his companies found that he owes more than $257,686.
GOVERNMENT: At least $138,640
» IRS: The Internal Revenue Service has federal tax liens against Michael and Kimberly Stickler totaling $114,902 for not paying payroll taxes.
» Nevada Employment Security Division: The agency has filed nine claims against Stickler's Faith Based Solutions LLC running from 2006 to 2010 for unpaid unemployment taxes. The claims run from $1,889.99 to $5,617.98 and total $23,738.03. No money has been collected.
COMPANIES: At least $71,083
» NorthStar Consulting of Las Vegas, which helps nonprofits grow: Michael Stickler was arrested on Jan. 18, 2011, on a contempt of court charge for failing to respond to summons in a small-claims case in Reno Justice Court filed by NorthStar Consulting, which sought to collect $2,550 it was owed. Stickler failed to appear at a hearing, and the judge ordered he pay $2,804. His bail was set for that amount, and it was paid for his release. The company said on April 8 that it has still not received any funds.
» Applied Business Solutions and Applied Staffing Solutions: The company filed a breach of contract suit in Washoe District Court in 2009 claiming Faith Based Solutions failed to pay $2,083 for payroll-related fees and $12,750 for staffing fees. Case is still in court.
» Seek Careers: The company filed a lawsuit against Faith Based Solutions to collect $32,000 for the employees the company supplied to Stickler. He failed to appear in court, so the judge issued a default judgment in favor of Seek Careers on June 30, 2010. No money has been collected, Seek's owner said.
» Marriott International: Filed a lawsuit in 2010 against Faith Based Solutions, claiming Stickler did not pay $11,735 for a Rai$e Your Vision event at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort and Spa in Lexington, Ky., on March 15-19, 2009. Stickler did not appear in court, so the judge issued a default judgment on Sept. 23, 2010, in favor of Marriott. No money has been collected.
» Julie's Sign Shop in Reno: Filed a small-claims complaint in Reno Justice Court against Community Renewal, doing business as The Vision Group in March 2010, claiming Stickler did not pay $2,400 for a new sign. Stickler did not appear at a May 27, 2010, hearing, and the judge issued a default judgment against Community Renewal for $2,536.85. Stickler has paid a portion of the total, the company said, but still owes $1,027.85. The company took the sign back last month.
» EH Publishing of Framingham, Mass.: Fled a small-claims complaint in Reno Justice Court against Faith Based Solutions in 2009 to collect $8,700 for exhibit space the company rented for the Worship Facilitators Conference and Expo Spring 09 in Long Beach, Calif., on May 14-15, 2009, and the Fall 2009 expo, Oct 29-30, 2009. Stickler did not appear in court, and the judge issued a default judgment on July 20, 2010, for $10,768, which included fees. No money has been collected, Peter Dubowsky, the company's lawyer, said.
» Peregrine Press/International Minute Press of Reno: Filed a $720 claim against Stickler's company in 2010 for The Vision Group business cards. After hearings and an attempt to garnish money from a bank account, Mike Stickler returned the cars to the company. Court records show no money was collected.
EMPLOYEES: At least $26,770
According to Nevada Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek, the agency has handled six claims by former Stickler employees since 2008:
» Candice Noel was a Faith Based Solutions employee from February to April 2009. Her payroll checks bounced. Stickler disputed the claim, but did not appear at a conference set for August 2009, so the commissioner issued a summary judgment in favor of Noel for $4,300. Nothing has been collected, and the case was sent to the controller's office.
» Tiffany Francis worked for Faith Based Solutions in April 2009 and claimed she was not paid $4,205. Stickler did not respond, and the commissioner found in favor of Francis. The case was sent to the controller's office for collection.
» Richard Drudi worked for Community Renewal in January and February 2011 and claimed he was owed $4,106. The commissioner found in his favor, and added a penalty to the judgment because the company was "a repeat offender." The total judgment was $15,265.
» Elizabeth Assne-Bille had a claim in 2007 against Faith Based Solutions, and $101 was collected. The commission did not have records of the total of the original claim.
» Melissa Ybarra filed a claim against Faith Based Solutions on Dec. 3, 2008, for $1,250. She won the claim, and the employer paid the amount on Feb. 9, 2009.
» Denise Bracklen filed a claim against Faith Based Solutions in May 11, 2009 for $2,650. The case was later closed at her request.
» Sherry Macaluso filed a claim against Community Renewal on April 13 for $3,000. That claim was being returned for more information before being investigated.
CONTRACTORS: At least $21,193
» Bob Stanbery, hired to get churches and people involved in the Help Build Hope Haiti project, says he is owed $7,000.
» Richard Jank, a contractor and developer assigned to secure property for homes in Haiti, said he is owed $14,193.


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OWENSBORO, Ky. (4/18/13) –After seven years of planning, building, and developing, the dream of a new hospital complex in Owensboro is about to be realized.
The new Owensboro Health facility, measuring approximately 750,000 square feet, offers a more concise layout than the existing hospital in just about every facet of service offered.
During a recent tour of the facility on Pleasant Valley Rd., Owensboro Health spokesperson Gordon Wilkerson told SurfKY that on each floor of the new hospital, patient services were set up to match corresponding physicians' offices to help cut down on the response time in the event of an emergency situation..
"When treating trauma patients, minutes count – (being able to respond faster) can make a big difference in patients' outcome. This is a safer, up-to-date facility, and one we can expand and grow with."
Wilkerson said the adjacency of specialists' offices to the corresponding hospital services aren't the only area of improvement in the newly constructed hospital. Other upgrades include larger patient rooms (about one-third larger than the patient rooms at the Triplett St. hospital location), changes in the way nurses can monitor and stock patients' rooms to make nursing services more efficient, and the placement of a helipad directly next to the emergency room are just a few of the changes the new hospital will offer to improve patient services.
Wilkerson said the existing hospital's helipad on the rooftop of the building opposite the emergency room is less efficient when treating patients. As for the larger rooms, he pointed out that studies have shown people who have visitors tend to recover faster.
Owensboro Health is currently licensed for 477 beds, but won't start off with that many at the new hospital. However, Wilkerson said, the facility has been constructed in a way to allow for adding one of three additional floors in the future.
Other additions to the hospital's new facility include a pharmacy service, a "hospitality suite," and a five-story medical office adjacent to the hospital.
Of course, the hospital will be retaining its policy regarding tobacco. The new hospital will also be a "smoke-free campus," meaning no smoking will be allowed anywhere on the hospital grounds. Wilkerson said while the idea isn't mean as a "smoking cessation" program, hospital staff will be able to offer what he called a "nicotine replacement protocol" for patients to help alleviate the effects of withdrawal they might suffer during their stay.
The new hospital is set to officially open on June 1 with a "patient move" scheduled for that day.
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Here, I could tell you about my own experience. I have recently given classes, as a French teacher.
The classes took place in a restaurant owned by a French guy, in a very friendly atmosphere, and were followed by about 20 persons. One of the thing I have noticed during those classes is that the shyness was not the main reason preventing people (Americans) to talk in French.
Many people had facial expressions showing how few they were ease with speaking in front of people, but they did the effort.
Why? Because they knew that their French skills were better than others' ones, therefore they had no problem to try to improve them, even with 20 people staring at them.
Oppositely, people with weak French skills were ashamed to try to speak, and to communicate in French, even if they were the ones who needed it the most.
You might be put in the same situation while having experiences abroad. Indeed, it is very hard to perfectly master a foreign language, only a very few people are able to do it, often after many and many years learning, reading and speaking it.
Not to try is the worst mistake you could possible make. It won't change the status of the problem, it could even make the situation worst.
On the other hand, to dare to speak in a foreign language means to give you the opportunity to learn it through the most efficient way. In addition to the listening sills improvements, you will develop the ability to speak faster and to be more reactive.
To be able to fluently speak a foreign language means that you will give you the best opportunity to discover the local culture as well as possible.
Indeed, you won't be ashamed to speak to a random person anymore, what implies that you won't hesitate to ask any question you might have, and consequently, find the most appropriate answer to it, thanks to the most appropriate person to answer it.
As soon as you feel confident, what is in general traduced by the ability to be understood anytime, independently of what you're saying, the foreign country in which you are doesn't look like so… foreign anymore.
Because this is the final aim, to feel like at home, abroad.


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November 30, 2015
A commercial airport is another step closer to being developed in southeastern Kentucky.
The study is finished and officials say the demand does exist for a commercial airline in our region.
The runways at the Pikeville/Pike County Regional Airport could be the future home of a commercial airline.
At least that's what leaders with the Big Sandy Area Development District are hoping for.
An aviation consultant group from Georgetown is conducting a feasibility study for a regional commercial air service in two phases.
The group's president, Randal Wiedemann, says the first, brought back good results.
Wiedemann says the Pikeville airport was chosen as the hub because the costs to improve it are more than three-million dollars less than the other option, the Big Sandy Regional Airport.
The second phase is where the funding comes in.
Some local people are excited about the possibilities a commercial airline could bring to the region.
Officials say only one airline needs to commit to the deal.
Officials say they'd like to see a delta connection, so Pikeville can become a hub for two round-trip flights each day to Cincinnati.
After an airline deal is made, officials say the flights could begin in less then one year.
They say it could take a lot of work to convince a commercial airline to come to Pike County with a decreasing population and lower-than-average income levels.
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They make you cry
They make you sigh.
They pull your hair,
And they don't care.
So many emotions
Like a big bowl of potions
You might want to hiss
But they want to kiss.
Emotions eat at each ear
Every day night and year.
Some days you feel happy
Others you feel crappy
Sometimes we love you
Sometimes you're just poo
You want to shut down,
But don't be a clown
If you try to escape my shell
I'll make your life hell.
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When we found out last year that visitors to TicketNetwork.com were most interested in getting email alerts for when Justin Bieber, we were hardly surprised. As one of the top artists of the last few years, it always makes sense to see him at the top of pretty much anything (though there's one list he hasn't been topping recently). That he didn't tour stateside last year only helped drum up anticipation.
The same is true for Adele this year. Alert sign-ups for Ms. Adkins accounted for just over 19% of the more than 29,000 received this year. However, I think the reasons for her success are more varied than Bieber. 1) Her tour last year was cut off due to throat surgery; 2) She's the top album seller of the year; and 3) She's riding the wave of the fantastic "Skyfall" track. Due to mostly the first two things, I believe, the demand for Adele to return to the stage is about as high as it can be. I guess the question now is whether Adele will deliver. Nothing has been announced yet, but that doesn't preclude something showing up later into 2013.
Tags: Ticketing Trends, alerts
Today is TicketNetwork.com's Fifth Anniversary! Although our site existed in some form or another before then, it's been five years since we launched ourselves as a retail site. And what a journey it has been. In that time, we've changed rapidly and grown dramatically. Let's take a look back at how things have evolved.
When we launched in 2007, the site looked a lot different than it does now. For one thing, there was a lot less emphasis on blue, grey, and red, which we currently feature throughout the site. Instead, there was a lot more green and yellow. In a revision from early 2008, we dispensed with some of the green and began to move toward the blue that would later become a big part of the site for a long time. During this time we also launched our affiliate program.
By mid-2008, the time had come for a major makeover. Enter bluepalooza. Everywhere you went...blue. Blue logo, blue header, blue gradients. Can you guess our favorite color from that time? Hint: It started with the letter "B." Of course, by early 2009, things started to change again. For the first time, gray started to peek through and the On Sale Now section gained some seasonal color.
Tags: anniversary, concerts, theater, sports, technology, data, alerts, Contests
After winning six awards at the Grammys on February 12, you might expect that Adele tickets sales would tick up. Or at least they would if she actually had an upcoming tour. But although she doesn't have a tour that's been announced yet, that didn't stop more than a 1000 people from wanting to find out when she would next have tickets on sale. That was the effect of Adele's good night at the Grammys: an 87% increase in the number of performer alert sign-ups on TicketNetwork.com* during and the week after the ceremony compared to the week leading up to it.
Tags: concerts, Grammys, Adele, alerts, data, Ticketing Trends
As promised, the time has come for the follow-up to our September post about the TN.com alerts. Since then, the total number of sign-ups hasn't quite doubled, but it's quickly getting there, based on the latest data from the TicketNetwork Exchange. There are now over 52,000 sign-ups for over 3,600 artists, shows, and teams.
Other than that, however, not much has changed. Justin Bieber still has the greatest number of alert sign-ups, and his share of the total has gone up, from 21% in September to 33% currently. Chris Brown, Usher, Adele, and Lil Wayne have entered the top twenty, while Cody Simpson, Garth Brooks, John Mayer, and The Budweiser Fest have left it. The rest of that list remains the same, albeit with some swapped positions. Here is the complete Top 20 Alert Sign-ups list:
Top 20 Performers With Alert Sign-ups
1. Justin Bieber
2. Eminem
3. Prince
4. Miley Cyrus
5. Lil Wayne
6. Nickelback
7. Mindless Behavior
8. Drake
9. Pink
10. Chris Brown
11. Il Divo
12. Usher
13. Kevin Hart
14. Lady Gaga
15. Adele
16. The Rolling Stones
17. Beyonce
18. Green Day
19. Winter Classic
20. Bruce Springsteen
*As of 12/19/11 10:00 a.m. EST.
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When we introduced our alerts system it was immediately very popular, with hundreds of sign-ups in the first week alone. In case you haven't heard of our alerts system, let me explain. If an artist, show, or team no longer have any tickets, a form appears where you can sign up to be sent an email the next time that performer or event has tickets. We also have alerts for specific events that no longer have tickets, but have not yet passed.
It turns out that when given the chance to find out when their favorite artists, shows, or sports will have tickets, people go for it. Since we introduced the system there have been almost 27,000 alert sign-ups for just over 2,800 different performers!
As you can probably tell from the title of this post, Justin Bieber is the performer with the most alert sign-ups. His lead is pretty overwhelming, too, with more than 21% of all sign-ups. Here is the Top 20:
1. Justin Bieber
2. Miley Cyrus
3. Prince
4. Eminem
5. Nickelback
6. Mindless Behavior
7. Drake
8. Pink
9. Kevin Hart
10. Il Divo
11. The Rolling Stones
12. Winter Classic
13. Green Day
14. Beyonce
15. Lady Gaga
16. Bruce Springsteen
17. Cody Simpson
18. Garth Brooks
19. John Mayer
20. The Budweiser Fest
The only real surprise here was Mindless Behavior, as they have not yet gone on a solo tour. The band most recently opened for Janet Jackson on her Number Ones Tour and is currently on tour with five other groups. If they're in such a high position now, then I'm extremely interested to see how well they do when their first solo tour finally happens.
I'll keep an eye on the alerts and issue an update later this year.
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I was born in Andreasburg, Kreis, Krummau Sudentenland. After World War II, our family was displaced to Germany. Even though we had proof that our farm was in the "Mathe" name for over 400 years, we could not check it any farther because the building the records were stored in was destroyed by fire. All of our belongings were confiscated, except for an allotment of 50 pounds per person. Everything was taken by Czechoslovakia: buildings, animals, machinery, land, savings accounts and cash money.
We were displaced to Bavaria. Food was scare. I was standing in line below zero weather to buy two pounds of horse meat. Even though I had frozen toes from waiting so long, the horse meat tastes so delicious. I was so anxious to go somewhere where I did not have to hunger. While I was in Bavaria, there was an opportunity to immigrate to South Africa. When I was called to interview to get to South Africa, I was too late. I was told that the quota to go to South Africa was filled, and I would only have the opportunity to go if someone decided to not go. There was similar opportunity to go to Australia instead, and I applied for that. I had a chance to apply for immigration to the Untied States, which I decided to do. In the fall of 1951, I had received acceptance from the United States. The United States had decided that I would be sent Monroe, Michigan because at the time, the U.S. government needed people on the farms.
In December 1951, I left for the United States on a small troop transport. In December, the Atlantic is very rough. Of the 11 days on the boat, I was sick for nine of them spent at sea. At times, I would wish that the boat would sink so, that way, I was out of my misery. After those 11 days, I arrived in New York City on Christmas Day. At the time, I was unable to speak English. I was a qualified carpenter and spent the fist two years I worked as a farm hand, earning $300 per year. The farmer that I was working for told me I was lucky because I did not have to pay income tax.
In 1952, I was called to the induction center for the United States Army. I was rejected due to the fact that I could not speak English. The following year I qualified, and I joined the National Guard. However, the same year I was drafted in to the army and was sent to France. While I was in France, I received my United States citizenship, and after two years in the army, I was discharged. After I was discharged, I then decided to rejoin the National Guard in 1952.
In 1961, my National Guard unit was recalled into active service for one year during the Berlin crisis. After I came back to Fort Benning, Georgia, I served the rest of my time in the National Guard. When I had completed my service in the National Guard, I was honorably discharged as sergeant first class.


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"Since first learning about solar-powered energy I have wanted to partake. Now it is more important than ever as we humans continue to pump more and more carbon dioxide into the air with dangerous and possibly irreversible consequences.
"It is such a good feeling to have those panels up there producing green electricity, and it isn't costing any more money! Even if we disappoint ourselves and find that we had to use a bit of dirty energy here and there during cloudy or rainy days, we still, in the long run, have created more green energy than dirty, and have reduced our carbon footprint significantly."
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DLA wins planning for Hackney housing
DLA Architecture has scooped planning approval for 58 homes next to St John at Hackney church in east London
Clerkenwell-based DLA Architecture has designed the £12.5 million scheme for developers Thornsett, the London Diocese and the local parish.
Planned for a site between the Grade II* listed St John of Hackney church and the Grade I listed Augustine Tower the housing will be divided into three blocks, each three stories high.
Along with the 58 homes, including church worker housing and social affordable houses, the development contains a community space, renewed scout facilities, a nursery, a publicly accessible square and a new pedestrian link designed to 'help integrate the church into the town centre'.
The development, which is scheduled to start on site later this year, will help fund the repair and heritage led upgrade of St John at Hackney church.
The architect's view
'The scheme is divided into three blocks of three stories each, formed and massed to respond to the context of the listed church, creating an integrated perimeter scheme across the site. The buildings are designed to provide a high quality contextual backdrop to the listed buildings, whilst remaining subservient to them.
'The elevations are designed using a hierarchy of architectural elements, which takes reference from the primary and secondary elements of the original church design by James Spiller. Brick tone draws inspiration from the darkened bricks of nearby Georgian terraces, and is complimented by a contemporary textured bronze, which incorporates the Maltese Cross, emblem of St John, sometimes in fragments.'
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Topics discussed include: the EU's long-term budget (2014 to 2020), MEPs' demands for CAP reform & Commission proposals for a ban on common insecticides.
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The "Middle Wife" by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher
This is a super cute story I got through email that is an example of a kids-eye-view of how babies are made and enter the world. It's definitely a fun read…so enjoy!
The teacher who sent this email had been teaching for about fifteen years and has two kids herself, but she said the best birth story she knows is the one she heard in her second grade classroom a few years back.
Here's the story…
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant "This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday."
"First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.
"Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, "Oh,Oh,Oh, Oh!" Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans.. "She walked around the house for, like an hour, "Oh, oh, oh!" (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)
"My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this." (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.)
"And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!" (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)
Then the middle wife starts saying "push, push," and 'breathe, breathe. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, (placenta) so there must be a lot of toys. inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there.
Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another "Middle Wife" comes along.


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Sent by Odoardo Beccari, Firenze, R[eale?] Museo, Via Romana 19, Italy to Alfred Russel Wallace, [Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset] on 17 December 1910.
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Firenze, R. Museo, Via Romana 19.
17. Xber [December] 1910
Dear Sir
It is very kind of you to send me a copy of your new fine volume "The World of Life" and I beg to offer you my best thanks for the gift itself and the extreme pleasure I find in its reading. The book contains a wonderful amount of facts upon [[2]] which I am greatly interested.
With the kindest regards | I remain | Yours very truly O. Beccari [signature]
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November 29, 2015
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Colorado College in Colorado Springs ranked No. 1 on the Princeton Review's "Reefer Madness" list in its compilation of "The Best 376 Colleges."
The University of Colorado at Boulder ranked as No. 4 on the "Reefer Madness" list.
Colorado College was also ranked No. 5 on the "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" list and No. 9 on the "Class Discussions Encouraged" list.
CU was also ranked as No. 20 on the "Great College Towns" list (the University of Denver was ranked No. 19) and No. 20 on the "Most Politically Active Students" list.
The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs ranked No. 1 on the "Don't Inhale" list (the opposite of the "Reefer Madness" list), No 5 on the "Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch" list, No. 13 on the "Stone Cold Sober Schools" list (the opposite of the "Party Schools" list) and No. 7 on the "Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution" list.
As for party schools, Ohio University was named the nation's No. 1 party school this year.
The school in Athens - a town known for rowdy Halloween bashes - pushes the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review student survey.
Rounding out the top five are No. 3 University of Mississippi, No. 4 University of Iowa and No. 5 University of California Santa Barbara.
Ohio was No. 2 last year. It has made the list 12 times since 1997, but never before reached the top.
The Princeton Review survey is part of its 2012 edition of "The Best 376 Colleges," which includes rankings in 62 categories. It is not affiliated with Princeton University.
Brigham Young University in Utah is the top stone-cold sober school for the 14th straight year.
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Saying One Thing and Doing Another
>> Thursday, July 9, 2009
When your rival club goes out in the summer transfer window and begins spending money like English footballers buying Cristal at a club, it's only natural that you start making snide comments in the press.
Enter Barcelona president John Laporta who told Spanish state TV the following,
"We make Ballon d'Or winners and others have to buy them. It's fine by me that Real have bought Cristiano Ronaldo but at present Barcelona are the point of reference for everyone. Real have erupted aggressively into the transfer market and distorted reality. We could go into debt like Madrid but it isn't our way of operating. We already have a competitive team and all we want to do is to make some prudent investments."
Nothing wrong with that John, expect it seems you should keep an eye on "your other hand" as it seems to be busy trying to do exactly what you are criticizing Real Madrid, or really Florentino Pérez, of.
Not that any of us should really be surprised by any of this considering the rivalry between the two clubs, but it's still fun to point out a little perceived hypocrisy when I find it.
Reports are out connecting Barcelona with a bid upwards of €40 million for Valencia striker David Villa. While there is nothing wrong with chasing Villa, he would be a tremendous addition for Barca which would allow them to finally cut ties with the oft-injured and oft-troubled Samuel Eto'o, it's just amusing considering Laporta's comments.
Galacticos 2.0 had been pursuing Villa in June but pulled off the chase saying the price was too high...that's rich coming from them at the moment. Villa has been linked with clubs in Spain and England and I think most fans have assumed his transfer is an inevitable occurrence. Yet nearly a year after his tremendous Euro 2008 performance, we are still waiting for a "big" club to swoop in and sign Villa away from Valencia, leaving a nice deposit is Los Che's bank account. If Barcelona can wrap up this transfer and find the fullback and center back that Pep Guardiola says he needs, all the money and the biggest fruitcake in the world might not make any difference.
As for John Laporta, nothing wrong with picking on your rival, just don't do it while you are on the verge of dropping a massive transfer fee.


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N.Y. trooper involved in fatal crash
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WAYNE COUNTY, N.Y. — A Wayne County woman was killed one day before her 31st birthday in a two-car accident in Huron, Wayne County, which involved a marked State Police vehicle last night.
Shonda Skinner, 30, of North Rose, was pronounced dead at the scene after the accident near Route 104 and Fifth Road.
Trooper Eric Kristansen, 26, was responding to assist a nearby Wayne County Sheriff's Deputy when the accident occurred, said State Police Maj. Steven White. A deputy had stopped a vehicle in Sodus that he believed was involved in a home invasion robbery that occurred nearly an hour earlier on East Port Bay Road in Wolcott, Wayne County. In that case, three armed men allegedly forcibly entered a Wolcott home and stole several hundred dollars from a male resident, White said.
Kristansen was traveling west on Route 104, with his lights and sirens activated, when Skinner, also westbound, initiated a left turn near Fifth Road, troopers said. White said Kristansen attempted to evade Skinner's vehicle, but was unable to avoid striking the car.
The passenger side of the state police vehicle reportedly struck the rear of Skinner's 1995 Geo and the patrol vehicle overturned several times after impact. Both vehicles came to rest well off the southwest corner of the intersection, troopers said.
White said he did not know how fast the patrol vehicle was traveling at the time of the crash.
"We're still trying to determine who is at fault," White said. "It's a horrible tragedy and too early to assign blame to anyone."
Troopers early today were working to reconstruct the accident. Both vehicles were heavily damaged in the crash, White said.
Kristansen, who sustained minor injuries, reportedly cut off his seatbelt, checked on Skinner and her seven-year-old son Jayden, who was a passenger in her car, and called 911, White said. He reportedly helped the boy from the car.
Jayden Skinner was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital via Mercy Flight, troopers said. The boy reportedly broke his leg. Jayden was in the hospital's emergency room this morning, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Trooper Kristansen was also transported to Strong and was treated and released, White said. He reportedly sustained a cut on his face and minor chest injuries.
Kristansen, who has been with the department for about 18 months, was expected to return to work in several days, White said. "He was very upset" about the accident, White said.
Troopers early today were working to reconstruct the accident and were investigating the collision.
White said Kristansen and Jayden Skinner were both wearing seat belts, but was not certain if Shonda Skinner was wearing a seat belt when the collision took place.
The vehicle stopped by deputies turned out not to be linked to the home invasion robbery, White said. Troopers and deputies were also investigating that incident
Copyright 2007 The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
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Anti-TNF-α antibody allows healing of joint damage in polyarthritic transgenic mice
1 Centocor, Inc, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Arthritis Res 2002, 4:R7 doi:10.1186/ar430Published: 28 June 2002
Anti-tumor-necrosis-factor-α (TNF-α) monoclonal antibody was used to treat Tg197 transgenic mice, which constitutively produce human TNF-α (hTNF-α) and develop a progressive polyarthritic disease. Treatment of both young (7- or 8-week-old) and aged (27- or 28-week-old) mice commenced when at least two limbs showed signs of moderate to severe arthritis. The therapeutic efficacy of anti-TNF-α antibody was assessed using various pathological indicators of disease progression. The clinical severity of arthritis in Tg197 mice was significantly reduced after anti-TNF-α treatment in comparison with saline-treated mice and in comparison with baseline assessments in both young and aged mice. The treatment with anti-TNF-α prevented loss of body weight. Inflammatory pathways as reflected by elevated circulating hTNF-α and local expression of various proinflammatory mediators were all diminished by anti-TNF-α treatment, confirming a critical role of hTNF-α in this model of progressive polyarthritis. More importantly, the amelioration of the disease was associated with reversal of existing structural damage, including synovitis and periosteal bone erosions evident on histology. Repair of cartilage was age dependent: reversal of cartilage degradation after anti-TNF-α treatment was observed in young mice but not in aged mice.


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Toronto FC reportedly could be on the way to signing an international star as their latest designated player.
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Uruguayan forward Diego Forlan could be unveiled as a member of the team as early as this week.
The 34-year-old was one of the stars of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where he shared the tournament lead for the most goals scored and was awarded the Golden Ball as best player in the tournament.
Over the course of his career, Forlan has played for Manchester United, Villarreal, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and his current club Brazil's Internacional.
Toronto FC is currently second last in the Eastern Conference sitting ahead of D.C. United for the bottom position.
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Hornets donate jet for BRCC aviation program
BATON ROUGE - A "big" donation from the New Orleans Hornets will help new avionics students in Baton Rouge.
Today the New Orleans Hornets donated a Boeing 727 jet to the Baton Rouge Community College for its new Aviation program.
"This is a tremendous gift," BRCC Chancellor Myrtle E. B. Dorsey said. "We are deeply grateful to the New Orleans Hornets for their contribution toward our work to expand the educational opportunities available to our students."
BRCC is still getting the proper permits from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Airframe and Power Plant Maintenance programs.
With the donation, students will now have an actual jet to learn with as they get licensed to do maintenance on aircraft and get them prepared to go back into service.
BRCC's Aviation program is projected to begin in the 2012 fall semester.