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The University of Miami lacked institutional control in its monitoring of former booster Nevin Shapiro, but the school avoided any further postseason football bans when the Committee on Infractions released its report on Tuesday.
Among the sanctions issued by the committee were three years probation, a reduction of nine scholarships in football and three men's basketball over the next three seasons and recruiting restrictions.
Former UM basketball coach Frank Haith, now at Missouri, will serve a five-game suspension for failing to monitor the activities of his assistant coaches and attempting "to cover up the booster's threats to disclose incriminating information," according to the NCAA press release.
RELATED: Ex-booster at heart of Miami case takes shots at NCAA
Former assistant football coaches Clint Hurtt and Aubrey Hill and former assistant basketball coach Jorge Fernandez were given two-year show cause orders, effectively keeping them from working at the collegiate level.
Hurtt is currently an assistant at Louisville and was placed on administrative leave in March. According to the NCAA release, Louisville has already imposed penalties on him.
The university previously self-imposed a two-year bowl ban and reduced the number of official visits, fall evaluations and available contact days in 2012-13.
The committee found UM lacked institutional control in monitoring Shapiro's activities as the booster gave $500,000 to the athletic department from 2001 to 2008.
Shapiro's visible position at UM, where an athlete lounge bore his name, gave him access to coaches and athletes. The NCAA was able to corroborate allegations that Shapiro entertained UM athletes and recruits at his home, on his yacht and at local restaurants. It also showed Shapiro provided cash and gifts to athletes, hotel lodging for recruits and airline tickets.
Shapiro invested in Axcess Sports, which the NCAA showed paid $50,000 to sign a former UM athlete, believed to be defensive tackle Vince Wolfork.
UM did not dispute many of the violations, which included 18 allegations of misconduct and 79 issues within those. The investigation included 118 interviews with 81 people.
The case included several former football assistant coaches, three men's basketball coaches and two athletics department staffers.
"These staff members had a poor understanding of NCAA rules or felt comfortable breaking them," the release stated. "Furthermore, some of the coaches provided false information during the enforcement staff and university's investigation."
When Shapiro began to have financial trouble, he turned to Haith for a loan or to have a $50,000 donation returned. Haith balked at the request, according to the release, but Hernandez gave Shapiro a $7,000 which he repaid.
Shapiro was incarcerated in 2010, after which he began to threaten Haith and demand money, the report said.
"The committee determined the former head men's basketball coach and the former assistant men's basketball coach worked together to make sure the booster received $10,000 to end the booster's threats," the release stated.
In a case that was one of the most salacious in recent years, with Shapiro alleging he provided everything from cash to prostitutes to UM players over an eight-year period, the NCAA's admitted mishandling allowed Miami to go on the offensive.
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NCAA president Mark Emmert commissioned an internal review in January that revealed the enforcement staff used investigative tactics that went against the limits of its investigative powers. Certain NCAA staffers worked with Shapiro's attorney to obtain testimony through the bankruptcy process that would have been otherwise unavailable to the association.
Before receiving the Notice of Allegations in February, UM president Donna Shalala said, "We have been wronged in this investigation, and we believe that this process must come to a swift resolution, which includes no additional punitive measures beyond those already self-imposed.''
UM officials went before the committee for two days in June and had hoped to receive a decision before the start of the season. More than four months later and halfway through the season, Miami is 6-0 and ranked six in the USA TODAY Coaches' Poll and seventh in the BCS standings.


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The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated Press by telephone that more details would be released later.
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Smart meters and cultural toxicity
Institutional mistrust and the rejection of science
When a cry such as "Crimes against humanity!" echoes in a regulatory chamber over the installation of interval meters, not only do you have an instructive incident for utilities to consider, you have a full-blown anthropological study on your hands.
I refer to the hearing on PG&E's opt-out options at the California Public Utilities Commission on Feb. 1, covered via the Web by my colleague Kate Rowland, resulting in her piece last week, "From Health Claims to Orwellian Accusations ..." That piece was preceded by a string of three columns by yours truly on the same topic, "PG&E Smart Meter Opt-out: Decision By Regulators," "California: Mob Rule On Analog Opt-out Solution?" and "California: A Future With ... Analog Meters."
In an age when the duly elected president of the United States is subjected to claims that he is not a citizen, when contenders for the presidential nomination of the opposing party claim to not "believe" in evolution, when conspiracy theorists suggest that our own military and intelligence organizations were "behind" 9/11, when the Federal Reserve Bank draws the ire of ... whoever those people are, you're on a slippery slope. And it's greased.
Enter interval meters, wireless or otherwise. Let's suppose that a utility has used a heavy hand to attempt to defeat an initiative to allow local choice over electricity and its delivery. Suppose that utility has decided to install millions of those meters in its territory, the same territory containing local governments it has attempted to run roughshod over. Further suppose that in significant pockets of that territory, indoor marijuana growing thrives, for profit and personal use. Suppose times are hard, times are changing, times are bewildering, even scary. Suppose you have a problem on your hands. That's PG&E and its northern California territory, standing before the CPUC.
It's worth taking a long look at the cultural context for this situation because it reveals just how extreme some elements have become, with potential impacts on grid modernization. Just as we gain the means to modernize the electric grid through science, technology and enlightened, collective action, so we stumble, shriek and point fingers at one another, dividing and conquering ... ourselves. Does that sound like a strong nation with a vision for the future? Does that sound like an industry that can get its job done?
A recent article in The New York Times did an admirable job in painting the context for the power industry's piece of this unraveling tapestry.
The New York Times' headline said a lot: "Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot."
Unfortunately, the Times was behind the curve when it identified "activists with ties to the Tea Party" as the ones "railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy." Memo to the Times: see smart meters, Marin and Mendocino counties, for the same sentiments spewing from the left, too. One protester in Virginia "identified smart meters, devices being installed by utility companies to collect information on energy use, as part of the conspiracy. 'The real job of smart meters is to spy on you and control you—when you can and cannot use electrical appliances,' she said."
One county planner said that protesters at what used to be routine county planning meetings "say they want non-polluted air and clean water and everything we promote and support, but they also say it's a communist movement."
"I really don't understand what they want," the planner said.
This article conveniently hit the Web the same day I received an email with the subject line "ICLEI's Murder Meters and Spy Grid Turning Mr. Roger [sic] Neighborhood into Electronic Internment Camps." ICLEI stands for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives and is said to be at the center of U.N. efforts to rob Americans of ... everything. There is a U.N. program dubbed "Agenda 21" that emphasizes sustainable development. Now it is the rallying cry of the xenophobic and the paranoid, who've taken to thwarting local initiatives to grow and develop intelligently.
The opening statement in the email read: "Smart meters is [sic] a grid designed to control and incarcerate the public. It is a project from the science of the Department of Defense overseen by MITRE the intelligence operation under former James Schlesinger located in McLean, Virginia."
How does that one grab you? Apart from the parallel universe in spelling, punctuation and sentence fragments, that is. Perhaps you'd like to visit this website for more, Refuse Smart Meter.
"Murder meters and the Spy Grid were designed by agencies that are informally coordinated under David Boran (skull & bones). Radio waves directed as weapons via frequencies and spying with calculated two way communication devices. There are records on file originating from U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command ..." Etc., etc.
All of this would be laughable, except one conclusion reached by the Times—that projects, even discussions, of major public issues are being canceled due to the vociferousness of the tin-foil hat crowd.
"It sounds a little on the weird side, but we've found we ignore it at our own peril," said George Homewood, a vice president of the American Planning Association's chapter in Virginia, quoted by the Times.
Do I need to make any further points here? Or has the rejection of science and the mistrust of institutions—particularly those that are installing digital meters on people's homes—gone a bit too far? And do you suppose that such a movement might have an impact on your operations, capital investments and, say, your approach to your customers?
The correct answer: it already has. And it's gaining ground.
Phil Carson
Intelligent Utility Daily
Sadly or not...
..there will always be those like our friend here who offer conclusive and irrefutable proof that smart meters are the spawn of ICLEI or Satan or whatever else is hiding under the bed. By all means I endorse their right to their opinions and support them in their behavors. However, to anyone who seeks to obstruct me in my pursuit of actionable and useful information, I say they can get the hell out of the way or get rolled over.
Obviously utilities will be charging "time of use" rates. Obviously they should. Obviously a kWh used at noon on a summer weekday is more precious than one used on a Sunday night. As you use, you need to pay. I want my good behaviors and common sense measures to be rewarded, not lost in other people's complacency; and moreover, I demand never to have to pay for or subsidize the behaviors of our willfully ignorant contributors here who see scams and conspiracies in all this.
If they want to opt out, then let them--and let them pay as any free market requires them to for their decisions. I'm not shouldering dime one of their choice. If Phil Carson is correct in saying that "California objectors now seek to avoid the cost of their opt-out by placing that cost on their fellow ratepayers," my answer is no. Never.
They want war? Me too. Here's the war I want: I want the war that happens in any free market where one behavior does battle with another one. I want to line up toe to toe, kW to kW with the anti-empiricists and technology resistors and I want it made unequivically clear on our monthly bills that one of us is outdoing the other. I'll pay time of use rates. I'll load shift. I'll use any energy management technology I can get and I'll be transparently accountable for my usage every fifteen minutes.
Let me use the technology to become a proficient energy user at my business and in my home. Let me read the numbers and refine my game the way any athlete practices with smart feedback. Let me eliminate my weaknesses and double my strengths. Let the opt-outers and the conspiracy theorists do things their way, blind to the feedback, deaf to solutions, as they like, on that level playing field without any help from me. Then, let's fight it out.
When I win, I can buy their inventory at ten cents on the dollar, sell my house for twice what they get for theirs, and pay less for every hour of electricity I buy than they pay.
Welcome to capitalism in 2012. Stupidity isn't free anymore.
Public Hysteria - Driven By Fear
In the unsure times of today, many resist against anything that is new and desire to return to the "Good Old Days" regardless of the many bad things the "Good Old Days" contained. It is human instinct to resist change even though it is in reality the only constant.
Few people can explain the workings of the microwave or a cell phone, yet they are very widely used technologies that many would not know how to function without. There were initial outcries' against these technologies when they were first introduced. But that outcry died out once the public recognized the benefits that the technologies brought. You would be very challenged to find a home without a microwave or cell phone. Yet, both of these devices emit more radio waves into the home then smart meters. Public hysteria, caused by focusing on fear and demonizing something new while ignoring the obvious is one of the side effects of fear.
I agree with the comment given by "Culture Run Amok":
"Tell the customer why the technology is GOOD, and talk about it in real, everyday terms with real life examples that apply to large segments of the customer base."
The messages need to be real, simple, and repeatable by every segment of the utility workforce. If the workforce does not believe it and are not able to voice it, then the public will not have a chance at getting it. Despite the importance of electricity on everyday life, fear could bury the progress and benefits the new technologies could bring.
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You can talk all day... but talk is cheap...
What consumers know is this:
Smart Meters = TOU = Higher rates
Utilities are lazy and don't have the stomach to fight the fanatical "green radicals" to actually expand capacity
Utilities see TOU as an easy way to transfer the burden straight to the consumer, increase their revenue without increasing their capacity...
Consumers will fight to control the marketplace based on "doing what is in the client's best interest" -
The painful truth is abundantly transparent: The smart grid/meter issue is a lame attempt to tell us one thing (BS) but really achieve a self-serving policy..
What Conspiracy?
First, I encourage you to go to the dictionary and define "Conspriracy Theory"
My definition: "Two or more colluding in secret to harm a third party"
Agenda 21 is hardly "in secret" - in fact, George H. Bush signed off on it in 1992 along with 178 other nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio...
ICLEI was a local organization that decided to push the UN's policies in local cities by passing local 'global warming' type inititatives including restrictions on greenhouse gases. The UN found out and decided to formally take this orginazation under it's wing and create a national platform to implement the UN's Agenda 21 on a voluntary basis...
Here is the real story from the horse's mouth... a friendly interview from one of the early movers and shakers within ICLEI - of course, this interview was done well before the UN decided to scrape their website of any connection with ICLEI and vice-versa for ICLEI's websites. But they are joined at the lips as evil simese-twins who are hell bent on stripping you of your property rights:
You need more proof? I can supply plenty, as I have done plenty of research... and not from right wing tea party blogs... I read from the sites, whitepapers, and newspaper articles from the perpatrators themselves....
Proof? No.
Sorry, but there's no "proof" here in the first place, so it's doubtful you have "more." Your source here is a crank conspiracy theorist whose thinking is fortunately onfined to a fringe of paranoiacs.
I hasten to add that I heartily endorse your right to any crank wacko off-world irrationality you like. I hasten even faster to make damn sure that you can't ever pass the bill for your lunacy onto me or anyone else.
I don't care where you get this stuff, right-wing, left-wing, Tea Party or Beer Party. Embrace it all you like, and if you insist on opting out of smart meters or energy management technology or any other aspect of reality in the 21st century, then by all means go hide in a bunker reading Michael Coffman or David Icke or any other similar genius, and by all means pay your own way for going.
Take off your Myopic Blinders...
You speak first and engage your reading lobe later, if at all... did you actually read the post? did you read the interview... I did not comment on "smart meters" - I was commenting on ICLEI... and ICLEI is NOT a conspiracy... it is you that has an unabashed belief that there can be no other opinion or facts that may effect this debate.
Agenda 21 is a real policy signed onto voluntarily by 179 nations... do you refute this?
Agenda 21's primary focus was on "Enviromental Issues" and "Sustainable Development"... do you refute this? see "Pricnciple Themes" in the 7th row: http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html
President Clinton signed EO 12852 to create the President's Council on Sustainable Development... do you refute this? do you believe his council had NOTHING to do with Agenda 21?
Do you believe the "Partnership for Sustainable Communities" formed by the DOT, EPA, & HUD in June of 2009 was not a direct initiative to embrace the voluntary policies of Agenda 21 as defined by the 40 chapter document officially accepted by 179 nations at the 1992 Earth Summit. http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/index.html
Agenda 21 + "Partnership of Sustainable Communities" (DOT, HUD, EPA)
Sir, it is you that is wearing a brain cap that prevents you from hearing additional facts that may effect the direction of this debate.
and, by the way, do you refute the facts I just laid out? or will you scoff once again and show your idealogy is stronger than logic?
Smart Meters and Cultural Toxicity
I think the proponents of "smart meters" continue to overlook the painfully obvious truth: the actual purpose of the meters is to allow utilities to charge "market" (or time-of-day) prices for electricity. Considering that the whole idea of "market prices" is largely a contrivance, it is no wonder the "peasants" are upset.
Let me explain. Wholesale power prices are based on computer modeling of a simulated market (take a look at the Independent System Operator (ISO) algorithms) with nodes, line restrictions, and power demands. The models then spit out the "price-of-power" at any given time based on these various elements.
However, unlike say telecommunications, the consumer is unable to buy power from a number of different suppliers, sources and methods. There is basically one set of wires coming into the house. Further, there are severe restrictions on increasing the number of wires (or power plants, for that matter). Not exactly a "market" is the classic sense.
Thus, the creation of a wholesale market is inherently flawed, but utilities are more or less forced to go along with the contrivance and are therefore subject to greater risk. Their answer appears to be to simply pass all the risk to the consumer.
Further exacerbating the basic inequity is the fact that the peaks in consumer energy usage are linked to the price in the ISO markets but those prices are completely out of proportion to actual costs, with the price artificially created by the computer models. Thus the consumer is unfairly hammered when he really needs the power
Politicians have jumped on the band wagon, thinking that they can "save-the-planet" by driving up energy costs (time-of-day rates) to reduce CO2 emissions. Utilities go along with the scam because they can make more money with little or no risk and are not advocates for their customers in any case.
The folks are a hell of a lot smarter than the "smart-meter' advocates think.
I propose a different approach: (1) don't waste money on the exotic, expensive "smart" meters, just use the semi-dumb ones (that have been around for years) that get rid of having to "eyeball" the meter for power usage; and (2) actually value your customers and do your best to keep power costs down, even if that means irritating the leftist political class.
Folks you
It's impossible to give much respect to anyone who purports to speak for "folks" and who views "irritating the leftist political class" as desirable and amusing.
Nothing about your post indicates much actual knowledge of how utilities work, or of their constraints their rectitude. You seem eager to gloat in your grasp of "painfully obvious truths" but if you see conspiracies and manipulation behind TOU rates, perhaps you're in line to report UFOs and black helicopters to Alex Jones as "painfully obvious" too.
You don't have much company in the business world, it seems. I'd like to meet the facilities manager or the energy supervisor for any company anywhere who tells his bosses that no, we're not going to use smart meters, and no, we're going to decline an EMS, and no, we're not load shifting or installing CFLs and timers...because this is all basically inequitable, and peaks in consumer energy usage are linked to the price in the ISO markets but those prices are completely out of proportion to actual costs, with the price artificially created by the computer models.
Here on earth, you see, people get fired for that sort of foolishness. And good business thinking is rapidly being adopted by people who think of themselves as smart facilities managers in their own homes.
I can't speak for the "leftist polictical class," but it's likely that people who understand more than you do about this would find your thinking of little value in practice. Fortunately, your suggestions about keeping semi-dumb hardward have been ignored , and even the semi-dumn consumers are rapidly coming around.
That's the best you've got?
when you can't defend your ideology you immediately play the "kook card" of black helicopters et al... too bad you can't defend your postion with logic or even a rational response that adults could consider and engage... no you go straight to the Rules for Radicals tactic of ridicule... only problem, it no longer works... we are like termites.. you stomp on us and the next thing you know you're being engulfed by the whole swarm...
Not happening all over the California
I would agree that the fringe element is stoking the fire, but fringe elements only have political strength if they can influence or move some of the non fringe elements. PG&E's problems with smart meters did not start in Marin County. They actually started in Bakersfield which is about as far as you can get from Marin in California, geographically and idealogically. The territory wide smart grid issues provided the fringe element an opportunity to exploit these mistakes. Moreover, with a content customer base, the fringe element would not have had anyone to listen to their nonsense.
I think we are overlooking how people felt about PG&E even before the meters were installed. If you look at the smart meter installs and the level of dissatisfaction across all California utilities, I would suggest they correlate with the level of brand equity or good will the utilities had built up. There are several utilities in California that have had no pushback and fringe elements exist across much of the state. These additional costs, in part, reflect a lack of trust and feelings that PG&E did not have consumers best interest at heart.
Throw in social networks and the ability of consumers to circle the wagons and you get this mess. All utilities and regulators must adjust to these new social trends. Branding and doing what is right for your customer is more important than ever for utilities. Without a content customer base, it will be difficult for utilities to deliver on their long term goals.
Not happening all over the California
I would agree that the fringe element is stoking the fire, but fringe elements only have political strength if they can influence or move some of the non fringe elements. PG&E's problems with smart meters did not start in Marin County. They actually started in Bakersfield which is about as far as you can get from Marin in California, geographically and idealogically. The territory wide smart grid issues provided the fringe element an opportunity to exploit these mistakes. Moreover, with a content customer base, the fringe element would not have had anyone to listen to their nonsense.
I think we are overlooking how people felt about PG&E even before the meters were installed. If you look at the smart meter installs and the level of dissatisfaction across all California utilities, I would suggest they correlate with the level of brand equity or good will the utilities had built up. There are several utilities in California that have had no pushback and fringe elements exist across much of the state. These additional costs, in part, reflect a lack of trust and feelings that PG&E did not have consumers best interest at heart.
Throw in social networks and the ability of consumers to circle the wagons and you get this mess. All utilities and regulators must adjust to these new social trends. Branding and doing what is right for your customer is more important than ever for utilities. Without a content customer base, it will be difficult for utilities to deliver on their long term goals.
The fringe add significant cost
Let's not forget that managing the irrationality of the fringe opposition to smart grid upgrades, such as smart meters, adds significant cost to utility regulatory and operational spend, all of which gets passed along to customers in rates. For every step forward we take toward a better energy future through technology and information it seems we take at least a portion of a step backwards to deal with the alarmist tone and irrational arguments of the fringe. And because utilities are so easily painted as big, uncaring and greedy monopolies the fringe is permitted to spew nonsense with impunity. All the while customer dollars are leaking out of their pockets without the knowledge of the vast majority of them.
Culture Run Amok?
Excellent article Phil! In today's world, the pervasiveness and ease of mass communications tools like FB, Twitter, and even forums for posting and commenting on information here make the issues that you raise in your article all too real. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and smart people can disagree on the details, but in this case, it is more than just the details that seem to be at stake. Many folks continue to argue against the entire concept of AMI and although you see most of the resistance targeted at issues of RF exposure, increasingly we read about the 'vast utility/government conspiracy' that is occuring due to the rollout of this type of technology.
Technology can be frightening, and technology that is deployed in a haphazard method, without full support and education of the affected population only becomes more highly suspect. I still believe that consumers will become more accepting of the risks, and more welcoming of the benefits as those benefits are better understood and publicized. For today, all we hear about are the risks because the issue of benefits is still too complicated for many consumers to fully grasp. This is the area that the industry needs to work hard towards changing. Tell the customer why the technology is GOOD, and talk about it in real, everyday terms with real life examples that apply to large segments of the customer base. The current model of 'here's your new meter whether you like it or not, and oh by the way your bill is going to go up for the next 10 years to cover my increased embedded cost' seems to not be cutting it. Let's hope that we will see a different approach very soon while there is still time to engage in meaningful dialogue.
Thanks again for your insightful article. Great reading!
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The industrial backwaters of Brooklyn might seem to be the last place the likes of Carine Roitfeld and Karl Lagerfeld would find inspiration, but artists-designer-musician Raúl de Nieves has brought the Left Bank calling upon Maspeth Creek. Working from his small back-room studio at the collective space Secret Project Robot, de Nieves' has developed something of cult following for his bead-encrusted creations and "performance" knits. Most recently, his bejeweled shoes were featured in a W spread shot by the likes of Mario Sorrenti. And, with his glittery creations set to appear in a forthcoming Harper's editorial (styled by the aforementioned ubiquitous French duo), de Nieves' star is sure to rise.
One could be forgiven for thinking such attention would go to a young artists head, but the characteristically insouciant de Nieves looks to be taking it all in stride. During a recent visit to his current workshop de Nieves - working on a made to order pair of shoes for a bride-to-be - cheekily remarked, "I like to be burned with hot glue guns." Indeed, the Mexican-born artists' maddeningly intricate beadwork can be found on just about anything he can get his hands on (shoes being just one iteration). Indeed, among other beaded creations, de Nieves' sculptural pieces have been exhibited extensively, first when has was with Newman Popiashvili Gallery and then later with the storied Williamsburg-based Live with Animals collective at Monster Island. And, beaded work aside, de Nieves' has made quite a name for himself as a wickedly provocative, often gender-bending performance artist, whether in collaboration with art world darlings Ryan Trecartin and Cody Critcehloe, or as the front man for the now defunct Cry Try Cry and, more recently, as one part of the band Haribo (set to release the first CD later this year).
Importantly, when speaking of his footwear, he is quick to point out they are as much works of art as they are fashion; "sculpture," de Nieves excitedly remarks, "is way more exciting if you can wear it." And, lest he be called blithely unaware, de Nieves acknowledges his shoes can be painful - having worn most of them himself - but readily retorts any please of mercy by remarking, "some days, I'd rather be walking on bricks."
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- A general model for nested transactional workflows
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- Kuo, Dean; Lawley, Michael; Liu, Chengfei; Orlowska, Maria
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- This paper applies concepts from transaction processing to workflows, thus enabling workflows to exhibit relaxed transactional behaviour. A general model for transactional workflows is presented. We define correctness of transactional workflows in terms of the model, and use the model to find schedules such that the execution of a transactional workflow is guaranteed to terminate in one of its acceptable termination (commit or abort) states. We allow a transactional workflow to consist of a number of tasks composed by the constructs ordering, contingency, alternative, conditional and iteration. In addition, we show how the model can be used to support proper nesting of transactional workflows to reduce the diffculty of scheduling algorithms and to provide for structured and modular TWF specification.
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- 1996
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- "We gotta get some of these dealers off the streets, man, you know? And I want them to know it was me."
- ―Manny Escuela.
Escuela of the Streets is the first mission for Manny Escuela.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get in a vehicle with Manny.
- Go to the dealer's place with Manny.
- Follow the dealer to the meet, don't let him know you're following him.
- Park behind the dealer.
- The dealer went into the warehouse, get him.
- The door is locked. (If door is touched by player)
- Wipe out all the dealers.
- Leave the warehouse.
- Shoot out the door. (if you came through the roof window)
In this mission, Manny Escuela requests your assistance in "cleaning the streets" of Bohan of known drug dealers from the North Holland Hustlers.
After the mission's intro cutscene, you'll find yourself outside with Manny, who will instruct you to find a vehicle. Upon obtaining a vehicle, Manny tells Niko that he suspects the dealers are on Grand Boulevard. Once you arrive, a brief cutscene will play that shows an accomplice of a group of drug dealers getting into the car and driving off. Naturally, you'll have to follow him. You must be careful not to get too close to his car, or he will spot you. Manny will warn you (if not insult you) if you're too close. Back off, but keep following. After he warns you a certain amount of times, you will spook the dealer, and he will abort his trip to the meet, therefore failing the mission.
The drive will end at the a Sprunk warehouse in Bohan. Park behind the dealer's car once you get there. After a short cutscene, Manny tells you to follow the dealers into the warehouse and then kill them, and then drives away to pick up his cameraman, Jay. You will quickly find that the front door is locked. At this point, you have several options for getting into the warehouse:
1. Shoot the lock on the door; this will allow you to enter through the door but it will alert the dealers and possibly the police to your presence.
2. If you take long enough to find an entrance, Manny will send you a text message saying that for every door that closes, a window opens. This is a hint to enter the warehouse through one of its windows. There are two large windows at the front of the warehouse, to the left of the locked door. Shoot one of them with a firearm to break the glass, and then climb on to the ledge and into the warehouse. The shooting of the glass will startle the drug dealers inside the warehouse, so they will be ready for you as you enter. It may also alert the police.
3. If you are looking for the stealthiest alternative, you can climb the fire escape of the adjacent building to that building's roof, and then cross some pieces of plank wood back to the warehouse where the drug dealers are located. Once there, seek out an open skylight to breach the building itself. There will be an enemy visible below the skylight with a Pump Shotgun, so be sure to take him out quickly, as at this is a very lethal range for shotguns. After dispatching the enemy below the skylight, jump through it.
Once inside the warehouse, take cover behind one of the many stacks of Redwood and Sprunk boxes, and kill all of the gangsters. When all of them have been killed, you leave the warehouse and Manny and his cameraman, Jay, will meet you outside. However, if the cops have been alerted, (they most likely will have not) you will need to lose your wanted level first.
Video Walkthrough
- North Holland Hustlers (deceased) - killed by Niko on orders from Manny Escuela.
- $1000
- Use of D-pad quickdraw
- This is the first mission you are given in Bohan.
- If you fail the mission while in a car with Manny, he'll tell you get out and he will drive off in the car. If you repeat the mission with SMS, you can see your car he drove away in parked next to the community center.
- There is a rare glitch where the drug dealer will not get out of his car. He will not get out and just sit there.
- If you don't go through the front door, but go through the side door (not too far from the front door - just turn right), you are technically still in the warehouse, but the cutscene with Niko Bellic outside the warehouse shows up.
- You cannot use a Bus to follow the dealer.
- Interestingly, Niko admits he was a stalker in the past. When Niko questions himself on how far back he should follow the dealer, he will sometimes say that when he stalked a girl back in his home country, he stayed two car lengths away.
- If you beep the horn while following the dealer, Manny will say something like "Not cool, man!" If you continue to beep the horn you will spook the dealer, causing you to fail the mission.
- The dealer you follow drives a uniquely colored Stallion. It will be black, but with a unique undertone. It can be seen in, but not limited to, blue, green, red, pearl, and normal tints.
- There is a vending machine which is located on the wall opposite to the main entrance, to the right of the roof entrance. Each drink from the machine will heal Niko by 50%.
- There is a health pickup inside the office (on the left, if you broke the lock and came in through the front door.) It doesn't show on the other side of the wall but it can still be collected from that side.
- Although the game suggests shooting the lock, the door can be opened by kicking or punching it. Although this alerts the dealers, it will not alert the police, like shooting the lock would.
- Upon completing this mission, Mel's random encounters are unlocked.
- Escuela is Spanish for school. Therefore, Manny Escuela translates to Manny Teacher, and the mission title translates to School of the Streets.


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NitroDino wrote:Stronghold
allows use not only of great spirits, but cards that will actually generate SP like Emerald Buncle, Rileria and Moxies (you don't need to put manually 1 sphere level into non-lawtia spheres)
you are open to an iczer attack turn 2- If you follow up with T2 Shade, that doesn't become a big problem
you waste the AT+10 skill- Mhm.
opponent plays a sacrifice unit before you which can lead to that he will trigger his first soul skill faster than you- The only units that this applies to are Jewel of the Deep Sea and Exploding Spores. Nothing else would die without your input, unless your opponent uses friendly fire open damage.
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Radiocarbon dating is one of the most reliable and well-established methods for dating the Holocene and Late Pleistocene. Natural radiocarbon or 14C is produced in the atmosphere by the interaction of the secondary ...
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Glacier Fluctuations Since the Last Glacial Maximum in Southwest Alaska
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Glacier fluctuations since the last glacial maximum in southwest Alaska Introduction During the last glacial maximum (LGM), alpine glaciers in the western cordillera expanded, coalesced, and flowed onto ...
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If your skin is more than dry, with red, scaly patches that itch like crazy, you may have a condition called atopic eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis or simply eczema. Though it's a chronic condition you may have to deal with indefinitely, there are ways to keep eczema symptoms under control and avoid future outbreaks.
Atopic eczema is the most common form of dermatitis, or skin inflammation, affecting as many as 10 to 20 percent of people around the world. It's called atopic — meaning that it's allergy related — because certain types of exposure seem to cause the rash. The skin of people with atopic eczema seems to be sensitive to many substances that cause the eczema reaction, including wool fabrics, laundry detergent residues, and certain cosmetic ingredients. Although probably not the true cause of eczema, certain foods may make atopic eczema worse for some people, and eliminating them from the diet may help improve skin.
Atopic eczema can strike anyone from babies to the elderly, and most often appears for the first time at a very young age — generally before age 5 and often before age 1. It usually starts as an itchy, red patch of skin that may blister, ooze, and crust over. Finally, a thick patch of skin may appear where the rash has healed. This cycle tends to recur chronically until at least young adulthood, when eczema sometimes disappears.
Atopic eczema symptoms include:
- Dry skin that forms a rash
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- Rash on the face, or inside the knees, elbows, or wrists
- Blisters that ooze
- Changes in skin color after repeated episodes
- Skin that looks leathery in patches
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- Itching and discharge from the ears
In babies and young children, eczema symptoms usually appear first on the cheeks, knees, or elbows; it happens less frequently on the faces of adults.
Causes of Atopic Eczema
Like most types of eczema, atopic eczema happens for an unknown reason. There may be a genetic link behind it: Atopic eczema tends to run in families and be related to other allergic diseases, including asthma and hay fever. Research has also found that people with atopic eczema are missing particular proteins that would otherwise help to protect the skin from the irritating substances.
The skin of people with atopic eczema is overly sensitive to allergens and irritants, leading to chronic inflammation, itching and symptoms.
Factors known to trigger atopic eczema include:
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- Coming in contact with irritating chemicals and other substances
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May 2, 2016
A Bertie County man has been charged with the statutory rape of a teenage girl in neighboring Martin County.
Christopher Mizelle of Windsor was arrested Tuesday on two charges of statutory rape and one count of statutory sex offense.
Deputies say they were notified of the rape allegations on February 10th and through examination of physical evidence and interviews they were able to identify a suspect. Deputies have not said how old the victim was in this case, but the charges say she was between four and six years younger than the suspect.
The 19-year-old's bond was set at $150,000 and Mizelle has a March 20th court date.
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I would like to recommend a video presentation done by Dr. Massoud Amin at the U of MN yesterday. It is available on the web at :
He has some very interesting things to say (quite clearly) about the "smart grid".
David Grider MN Futurists
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Hi Phil,
Now here's an interseting concept, only applied to water. You have to wonder if electricity conservation would force the same? Would it be possible to save too much and not cover the fixed costs at the utility level? Who'd of thought?
Florida Utility To Increase Water Rates Due To Declining Use.
The Tampa Tribune (3/19, Johnson) reports, "Tampa Bay Water...isn't selling enough water to meet expenses," and will increase rates in response. An "average household using 8,000 gallons a month would see its monthly water bill rise by $1.20 or $14 a year." According to the Tribune, Tampa Bay Water is "selling less water because growth slowed and people are cutting use, partly to save money and partly responding to years governments trumpeted the need to conserve. Also, near-normal rainfall cut into water use."
The St. Petersburg Times (3/19, Pittman) reports over 80 percent of Tampa Bay Water's expenses go for electricity, chemicals and paying off the money it borrowed to build the state's largest reservoir and the nation's biggest desalination plant." Although some local officials attributed the rate increase to water conservation as "a major factor," Southwest Florida Water Management District executive director Dave Moore argued that "a lot of it is related to the economic downturn."
I enjoy your column...keep up the good work.
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A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "section") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "section"). It consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. Lobotomies have been used in the past to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders. Since the development of such antipsychotic drugs such as Thorazine in the 1950s, lobotomies and other forms of psychosurgery have become generally obsolete.
In 1890, Dr. Sarles performed partial lobotomies on six patients of a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. He drilled holes into their heads and extracted sections of their frontal lobes. One died after the operation, and another was found dead in a river 10 days after release (whether by accident, suicide, or crime is unknown), but the others exhibited altered behavior.
The first controlled human lobotomy was performed by the Portuguese physician and neurologist António Egas Moniz in 1936. His method involved drilling holes in patients' heads and destroying the tissue connecting the frontal lobes by injecting alcohol into them. Moniz won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 for this work. The procedure was refined by British psychiatrists including Eric Cunningham Dax, and brought to the United States by Drs. Walter Freeman and James W. Watts, who refined Moniz's procedures and changed the name from leukotomy to lobotomy.
Freeman, without the support of Watts, later developed a version that reached frontal lobe tissue through the tear ducts. In his transorbital lobotomy, a mallet is used to force a surgical instrument akin to an ice pick through the thin layer of skull at the top of the eye socket. The pick is then wiggled to damage the frontal lobe. This technique could be performed in a doctor's office rather than in an operating room, and required only a few minutes to perform. Freeman advocated this procedure for patients with even fairly mild symptoms. He personally performed the operation on thousands of people and promoted the idea of lobotomy as a casual procedure, claiming it would one day be as common as dental work.[1]
Lobotomy had long been criticized by the medical profession, as many were repulsed at the idea of deliberately destroying healthy brain tissue. Several cases of lobotomies which significantly damaged the recipients' mental capacity were publicized and cemented the procedure's poor reputation. With the advent of Thorazine in the 1950s, the procedure began to seem barbaric, and rapidly declined. In 1950 lobotomy was banned in the USSR.
In 1977, the U.S. Congress created a National Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to investigate allegations that psychosurgery, including lobotomy techniques, was used to control minorities and restrain individual rights, and that it had unethical after effects. It concluded that, in general, psychosurgery could have positive effects. However, concerns about lobotomy steadily grew, as numerous countries such as Germany and Japan, along with several U.S. states, prohibited it. Lobotomy was legally practiced in controlled and regulated U.S. centers and in Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, India, Belgium and the Netherlands. The practice had generally ceased by the early 1970s, but some countries continued small-scale operations through the late 1980s. In France, 32 lobotomies were performed between 1980 and 1986 according to an IGAS report; about 15 each year in the UK, 70 in Belgium, and about 15 for the Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston.[2]
Lobotomy was most prevalent in the United States, with approximately 40,000 persons lobotomized, followed by Great Britain with approximately 17,000 and the three Scandinavian countries with a combined figure of approximately 9,300.[3]
- Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kennedy, was given a lobotomy when her father complained to doctors about the 23-year-old's moodiness and growing interest in men. The procedure was personally performed by Dr. Freeman. Instead of producing the desired result, however, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality that left her incontinent and staring blankly at walls for hours. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. To avoid political scandal, the nature of Rosemary's affliction was hidden by her father for years, described to the public as the result of mental retardation. Her sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in her honor in 1968.
- Howard Dully had a lobotomy at 12, after his stepmother was simply tired of his "youthful defiance". In regards to the long term effects of the operation, at the age of 56 he said, "I've always felt different -- wondered if something's missing from my soul. I have no memory of the operation". Dully would later go on to uncover the story of his own lobotomy, which had not been revealed to him prior.[4]
See also
- For an example of the personality changes associated with damage to the frontal lobe not related to a surgical leukotomy, see the famous case of Phineas Gage.
- ↑ El-Hai, J. (2005) The Lobotomist. ISBN 0471232920
- ↑ includeonly>"La neurochirurgie fonctionnelle d'affections psychiatriques sévères", Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique, April 25, 2002.
- ↑ {{{author}}}, Lobotomy in Norwegian Psychiatry, [[{{{publisher}}}|{{{publisher}}}]], [[{{{date}}}|{{{date}}}]].
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080 Retrieved 1/18/07
- Elliot Valenstein, author of Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
External links
- The History of Lobotomy
- University of North Carolina Asheville: Lobotomy
- My Lobotomy Radio story
- "Lobotomy's back - controversial procedure is making a comeback"
- 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's JourneyPsychosurgery
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Workshop on developing an integrated approach to spatial cognition of navigation and visualization
Jul 7-10 2009 Workshop exploring spatial cognition skills in visualization and in the navigation of everyday life, the overlap between these two areas, and their place in cognition as a whole.
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Sep 13-14 2008 International workshop reviewing the current state of research on spatial cognition in order to develop a research plan for the field as a whole and especially the use of visualizations in STEM courses and the applications of spatial cognition to robotics, engineering, and design.


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Today we are excited to announce the launch of our 12th European location - Warsaw, Poland!
The Warsaw chapter is just around the corner, as the 4-month program is slated to start on February 18th. The program is open to existing and prospective technology founders of all kinds - with or without an idea, young or old, and with a full-time job or unemployed.
If you or someone you know could benefit from expert training and feedback to launch a technology startup in Poland, click here to apply. If you apply by the Early Application Deadline on Sunday, January 20th, you get to take the Predictive Admissions Test for free (typically $50), and have the best chance of acceptance.
If you would like to learn more, then join a free event we will be hosting in the coming weeks:
- Startup Pitch Bootcamp: Monday, January 14th, 6:30pm
There are many reasons why the Founder Institute is setting up shop in Warsaw. First, Poland is one of the fastest growing European Union's economies and the only one in Europe to have avoided the recent recession. Poland is also well-known for its high quality programmers and IT talents, and the local startup ecosystem is vibrant. Finally, according to the Startup Genome Project the capital of Poland is amongst five best European startup ecosystems, and ranked 25th in the world.
The Warsaw chapter will be lead by Agnieszka Oleszczuk – Widawska (co-founder of Evenea), Anita Kijanka ( Founder of Com Creation) and Paweł Widawski (Coordinator of the New Technology Law Center at Warsaw University).
Expected mentors of the Warsaw program include;
- Adam Hościło, Co-founder, Twisted Logic
- Arkadiusz Hajduk, CEO, Huge Thing
- Edi Pyrek, Consultant
- Ela Madej, Co-Founder , Applicake, Base CRM, R&U
- Filip Miłoszewski, Co-founder, Board Member, Listonic
- Jakub Domeracki, CEO, Idea Box S.A.
- Jan Zając, CEO, Sotrender
- Maciej Maciejowski, CEO, MoonSpace
- Marcin Chwalik, Co-founder, Ceneo.p
- Michał Sadowski, CEO, Brand24
- Michał Jaskólski, VP, R&D Director, Grupa Nokaut S.A.
- Paweł Fornalski, CEO, IAI S.A.
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Sunny, warm days and summer activities lead children outdoors.. But before your children head outdoors to play, Safe Electricity recommends families review electrical safety rules with their children.
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Linstroth bests 19-car field in Modified main at Roseville speedwayBy: Staff Report
Jay Linstroth of Citrus Heights took the lead on the third lap and drove to victory in the Modified main event as All American Speedway opened its season Saturday night.
Linstroth, who earlier won a heat race, was in second place by lap two in the feature and moved into the lead on the next lap with Jason Bamberg right behind in second. Defending track champion Scott Winters passed Bamberg on lap 19 and finished second with Bamberg third in the 19-car main.
Bamberg set fast time in qualifying at 14.175 seconds around the one-third-mile paved oval. John Mamula won the other heat and the trophy dash.
Late Model — Chris Scribner set the pace in qualifying at 14.144 seconds and beat Ron Chunn to the checkered flag by less than a car-length in the 12-car main event.
Chunn had a big lead, but a caution flag on lap 29 brought the field together. Chunn led Scribner from laps 30-40 until Scribner made a pass on lap 41 and led the final 20 laps to the checkered flag.
Michael Roman won the dash.
Street Stock — Jared Beddow came within a heat race victory of a clean sweep. He topped qualifying at 14.924 seconds, won the trophy dash and pulled away to victory by 1.989 seconds in the 35-lap main event.
Richard Poppert Jr. and Kevin Owens battled for the lead for several laps until colliding in turn four on lap 25. Beddow took the lead on the restart and beat Dave Silva.
Owens and Jill Schmidt won the heats.
Bomber — Cody Rickard took the lead on lap 16 of the 35-lap feature and led the rest of the way, beating Erick Ray to the checkered flag by 1.262 seconds.
Ray set a track record in qualifying with a lap at 15.721 seconds. Mario Davis and Richard Perez won the heats, and Perez won the dash.
F4 — Cyle Clayton led from green flag to checker in dominating the 12-lap feature with a victory margin of 13.058 seconds. Adam Chandler was second and Anthony Beno third.
Clayton also won the heat. Cody Szuh set fast time at 17.428 seconds and won the dash.
When/Where: Saturday at the Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Boulevard, in Roseville. Gates open at 4 p.m.
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: Modified, Late Model, Street Stock, Bomber, NCMA Sprint.
Ticket prices: $13 for adults ages 16-59, $7 for seniors 60 and older and juniors 6-15, free for kids 5 and under, $35 for a family pass (two adults and three juniors).
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Whip up soups, milkshakes and more. The powerful Krups Immersion Blender lets you chop, puree, blend, and whisk with ease. The stainless steel shaft detaches from the ergonomic handle for easy storage.
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Stainless steel shaft with plastic handle.
Six variable speeds.
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Accessories include a wall mount, mini chopper, whisk and measuring beaker.