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Pep up the floor with a rug woven from preppy wool stripes.
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Comments On Jun 20, 2014:Great handling and mileage.
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Comments On May 14, 2014:Excellent tire good grip and the shipping is great ....incredible service good djob
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Comments On Nov 26, 2013:excellent tire will buy again
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Comments On May 07, 2013:After burning up the metzeler me880 in 7k and 9k miles, I tried the bt023 and got over 11k miles. The dual compound makes a huge difference in the center wear of the tire. With the marathon costing twice as much and getting fewer miles, the decision was a slam dunk.
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Comments On Feb 23, 2013:I used these on a 2009 Suzuki GSX1400, previous tyres were 3 sets of Michelin Pilot Road 2 and one set of Dunlop RoadSmarts.
Riding was commuting, some highway work, and a lot of hard mountain/canyon riding. I would regularly carve up much sportier bikes.
Warm up time is good, no problem grinding footpegs in under 5 mins riding on a cool morning. These tyres gave me much more confidence and grip than the PR2s, and as a result I was getting that much lean that the footpegs were folded up and I was grinding the engine mounts down on the road. This is all with decent aggressive hanging off body-position.
They lasted considerably longer than the Dunlops, and maybe 5% more than the Michelin. I got an average of 10,000km from a set (rear worn past wear indicators, would replace the front at the same time) front might have had another 2000km in them.
I noticed no reduction in performance throughout their life.
Wet weather was no issue either.
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Comments On Nov 28, 2012:2500 miles and counting. showing little to no signs of wear. great performance in hot or cold, dry or wet. Overall a great performing tire for the everyday rider!
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Comments On Nov 20, 2012:I felt this tire was a good choice for a commuter sport bike. I got about 9000 miles out of the rear tire before I decided it was too low on center tread. Cornering traction is good for a touring tire, and handles the rain better than a Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa.
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Comments On Nov 08, 2012:The Bridgestone BT023 rear tire is a very good tire. Great grip and wears very well. I don't like the front as it wears out way to soon.
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Comments On Oct 29, 2012:I have a Honda ST1100A, Yes that 1998 ABS model with hard to find tires. I am also a year-round SF Bay Area rider (three seasons for the rest of the country up north) Having put server brands and make of tires on my bike I have come to know a great performance and an value. The Bridgestone Battlax BT-023 prvide the grip needed to lay it over as far as I want while still maintaining good wear life. Wet weather grip inspires confidence as well. I will be purchasing these tires again when I have to get a new set.
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Comments On Mar 15, 2011:honda cbr1000rr
I put this tire on myself using my fancy new harbour freight tire changing apparatus and balanced it with my harbour freight static tire balancer, it was cool to actually do it my self, so far i have put about six hundred miles on it, over a hundred miles of that was on twisty roads, the tire is broke in edge to edge now, the compound feels good, no complaints, as i approach 3000 miles i will know if it really gives more center tread highway mileage, i will try to remember to post results at 2000 and 3000 miles.
Additional Comments On Aug 22, 2012:Updated review, I installed and reviewed this tire on march 16 2011, I am impressed with the compound, it sticks well when pushed to the edges and center tread wear is excellent, this tire went 7200 miles on the rear of my cbr1000rr, this is definatley a record for a rear tire on this bike, im ordering another one today.
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The back of the watch indicates civil time in the most accurate positive manner, thanks to an ultra-light titanium carriage and a large balance-wheel. Civil time corresponds to the mean solar time. It asserted itself from the 14th century onwards thanks to horology, since it served to rationalise natural (solar) time by eliminating the daily irregularities (days and years of variable lengths) and by correcting them at regular intervals (by leap years and century leap years). Its duration is 24 hours and corresponds to the mean duration of each of earth's rotations around the sun during a civil year, meaning 365 or 366 days.


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A Springs man faces child abuse and attempted murder charges after police say he assaulted his girlfriend and harmed her 9-month-old child during an argument.
According to police, 29-year-old Mark Burch began fighting with his girlfriend Saturday night while driving on North Carefree Road. He refused to stop as his girlfriend began demanding to be let out of the truck.
Burch eventually stopped at a dirt lot, where police say he "forcefully removed" his girlfriend from the vehicle and shoved her to the ground. The woman managed to get her 9-month-old out of the truck and began yelling for her younger sister, who was also in the vehicle to run and get help. As the victim started to walk away carrying her child, Burch allegedly strangled her to the point of unconsciousness. Police say that when she came to, she was lying underneath the truck with her infant child lying on the ground nearby, bleeding from the head. The truck engine then revved up, so the victim quickly got herself and her child out from under it, and fled the scene with her sister.
The three made it to a nearby bar, where the woman called police. After interviewing the victim, officer tracked down Burch and arrested him in charges of attempted second-degree murder, felony child abuse and misdemeanor child abuse.
The woman and her child were both hospitalized with serious but non-life threatening injuries. The infant remains in the hospital with a skull fracture. The 9-year-old sister was unharmed.
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Hands On: SpeakerCraft CS3 TV Speaker
A soundbar for your TV stand instead of your wall
As televisions continue to devote less energy into the audio quality of their built-in speakers, speaker companies continue to develop smarter products that solve the TV speaker problem. The most common solution is a soundbar. SpeakerCraft, a company known mostly for making in-wall and in-ceiling speakers for the custom home installation market, offers something a little different, the CS3 TV Speaker.
The SpeakerCraft CS3 works like a soundbar in that it is a single unit designed to replace your TV's speakers. But it's not a soundbar. At 28-inches wide and 16.5-inches deep it's actually a little platform for your TV to sit on. It's about the size of a briefcase (those things people used to carry files, pens and work things before backpacks and thumb drives were invented). The theory behind this approach is that the extra space (the overall size of the cabinet is much bigger than most soundbars) offers more room for drivers without occupying more visual space when you're looking at it from your sofa. Also most people don't hang their TVs on the wall—they place them on TV tables or cabinets. The problem with that is that the TV's base will often be in the way of the soundbar, and they just look funny together. With SpeakerCraft's system, you stick the TV on top of it, which raises the TV about 4 inches.
The trend in soundbars now is a lot like the trend in TVs, to make them as thin and inconspicuous as possible. And that's how a lot of them sound, thin, which is why many come with subwoofers, usually wireless ones (to appease the anti-wire customer). As I wrote above, the CS3's design means that it can cram more drivers in the box. In this case it includes four 2.5-inch midrange drivers, two 1-inch silk tweeters and two 5.25-inch bass drivers. Those two bass drivers (essentially a built-in subwoofer) fire down toward the table or cabinet the system is sitting on. The bass drivers mean you can get good bass without an additional subwoofer.
Like a soundbar, the CS3 connects easily. You plug in the AC and then plug the audio output from the TV into the back of the CS3. The system takes digital optical, coaxial or analog stereo. This setup means you need to connect all your sources to the TV first, presumably via HDMI, and then use your TV's audio output to feed the CS3. This also means you need to search through your TV's on-screen menu to turn off the TV's speakers. If your TV doesn't have this feature, then you can turn the TV speakers down to zero and hope no one touches the volume.
The mostly simple connection means that while there's only one wire connecting your TV to the speaker, there will be multiple wires connecting your components to the TV. Plus, while some of your source components may be capable of delivering true 5.1 surround sound to your TV, the audio cable from the TV to the speaker will probably only carry stereo (that will vary depending on the TV).
When you put your TV on the CS3, it will be stable—don't worry about it. The unit can support a TV up to 160 pounds, so anything in the 32-55-inch range is fair game as long as the TV's base doesn't hang off the CS3. If your table or stand is a dark color, the speaker will blend in pretty nicely. My TV was already on the wall, so I placed the speaker on the component table directly under the TV.
The CS3's remote is just a little credit card-sized thing of the sort that comes with kitchen radios. The remote is a little frustrating because the buttons don't feel quite right and the text is too small to easily read, but I assume most people who buy this system will have it integrated on a universal remote along with the remotes for their TV, Blu-ray player and cable box.
Sound is the most important thing when considering a system like this. It has to sound better than your TV's speakers. At $600 it has to sound a lot better. And the CS3 does. Many soundbars are just lousy TV speakers built into a separate cabinet. The result is only marginally better than where you started. The CS3 sounds like a real audio system. In my living room it filled the space with rich, textured music when playing back streaming channels from Pandora or the music stations provided by my TV subscription. With CDs played through a Samsung Blu-ray player, the results were even better. There was precision and energy in the sound that you don't get with your average product. I was particularly impressed with the wide soundstage, considering that system is only 28 inches wide.
With TV and movies the CS3 is also a big improvement over your TV speakers and qualifies as a great alternative to a receiver and separate speakers. A surround button on the remote kicks the system into a virtual surround mode. That mode isn't doing any Dolby Digital decoding, especially since in most cases it's only receiving a two-channel signal, but it does a good job of creating a sound umbrella and fashioning an impression of spaciousness. You won't duck your head and look for dinosaurs stomping behind you, but it will fill the space well.The CS3 gets respectably low, maybe not as low as the Atlantic Technology Powerbar 235 (which costs more), but low enough, and without an external subwoofer.
The CS3 also includes Bluetooth, and connecting a Bluetooth device is a pretty simple process. I paired it with my iPhone and again was pleased with the quality of the music the system put out. It doesn't have any built-in music services like you'd get from the Sonos PLAYBAR, but you can stream those services from your smart phone or use the music services built into your internet-connected TV.
If a full surround sound system isn't in your plans for a certain room in your house, you still owe your ears a better audio experience. The CS3 can deliver that without any installation complications, and in most situations, it's a better cosmetic fit than a soundbar. It's similar to the ZVOX 580, but that system doesn't include Bluetooth, which I think is critical in this age of smartphones and tablets. My only complaint about the CS3 system is that you don't get very good visual feedback when you do anything with the remote—there's a little blue LED light behind the grill cloth, but it's hard to see. A small display for volume number, input or mode would be nice.
SpeakerCraft CS3 TV Speaker
Height 4″
Width 28″
Depth 16-1/2″ with grille (16″ without)
Weight 25.0 pounds
Amplified Power 80W
Number of Speakers 1
Frequency Response 35Hz – 20kHz
Tweeter Size 1″
Tweeter Composition Silk dome
Midranges Four 2.5"
Tweeters Two 1" Tweeters
Subwoofers Two 5 ¼" Subs
Enclosure Type Ported Speaker
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At the end of the 2010 spring season, NBC canceled longtime staple Law & Order, a program that had run on the network for twenty consecutive seasons and been instrumental in wresting away viewers in the critical 65-and-older demographic from competing network CBS and the upstart Bingo Channel. The storied program has since become the most syndicated show in the history of television, often airing a cumulative seven hours between TNT, AMC and Bravo on any given weekday, not to mention providing the basis for Sam Waterston's lucrative insurance commercial career. The show's current heir-apparent is Law & Order: Los Angeles, a show that uses the exact same premise as Dick Wolf's original brainchild, albeit with a different cast and setting. This incarnation of the show, however, was not the only Law & Order spinoff that NBC considered. Other possibilities entertained by the network's brass included Law & Order: The Nuremberg Trials—a program premise which was ultimately deemed too risky to air—and the decidedly less provocative Law & Order: Cases in Torte Law, which was agreed to be too boring, even by Law & Order standards. One premise that was given some degree of consideration by the NBC program executives, though, was the intriguing Law & Order: Puritan New England, a show that promised to grip viewers with plots "ripped from the headlines of late 17th century Massachusetts." This particular premise made it as far as the scripting stage, and though it was never filmed or aired, the pilot script written for the project is considered by many to be one of the better ones in a canon that contains nearly a thousand such scripts. This daring script is transcribed in its entirety below.
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COLD OPEN NARRATOR In the Puritan justice system, the People are represented by two separate yet equally important Groups: the Constables, who investigate crime, and the presiding Judges, who prosecute the God-offending dregs, condemn their sinful actions, and punish their grievous crimes. These art their Stories. Dun-dun EXT. RURAL NEW ENGLAND ROAD – MORNING Two women in period dress speak in an animated and lively manner as they casually stroll down the rural road. GOODEWOMAN #1 …but my husband cares not for Bread, it seems, 'less the stuff be cover'd by a goode and healthy Mold of several days. GOODEWOMAN #2 And is that all that ails you? I fear how you would act when confronted with a real Crucible, if this trifling matter vexes so! GOODEWOMAN #1 Well, my goode husband and I have also consummated our Love but thrice in seven years since Marriage,— I fear that I may soon seek'st base Fornication with the neighbors' slave 'twere it not for…— God's blood, look'st there! GOODEWOMAN #2 What is it? GOODEWOMAN #1 'Tis the proctor, Constance Putnam! He plows his Field on the Sabbath! GOODEWOMAN #2 Good Lord! Quickly, fetch the Constables! Help…help! EXT. CONSTANCE PUTNAM'S FIELD – LATE MORNING In the midst of Mr. Putnam's large, damp field are two investigators. The older of the two, Constable Steadfast Handjobb, is an ostensibly grizzled veteran of the force. The other, younger constable is Increase Friction, Handjobb's young-gun loose-cannon occasionally-sarcastic partner. The junior of the two constables is examining Mr. Putnam's field with the finest forensic equipment of the day, which is to say a magnifying glass. INCREASE FICTION Look'st tho' this Field were plowed not an hour ago. Steadfast Handjobb picks up and handful of dirt and tastes it, looking contemplative. STEADFAST HANDJOBB Yea, and with a plow, too. What is ostentatiously a forensics person, or the closest period equivalent thereof, enters the frame. FORENSICS PERSON We've ropeth'd off the entire Field, and placed little cones within all the plowèd Furrows. HANDJOBB Find'st thou anything? FORENSICS PERSON Yea, come hither. The two men walk to another area of Mr. Putnam's field and peer down at the ground. FORENSICS PERSON Knowst thou what this is? Constable Handjobb bends down once again and tastes the substance in question on the ground. HANDJOBB Yea, 'tis horse Droppings.— The Perpetrator must have made use of such a beast. FORENSICS PERSON Didst thou really have to taste…— The unnamed forensics person's statement is interrupted by an off-frame interjection. FRICTION Handjobb, come hither! HANDJOBB Yea, what ails you? FRICTION Look'st. The camera peers down to reveal a handful of squash seeds in the furrow of the field. HANDJOBB Squash seeds…— look'st like this was about more than merely plowing one's Field. Here ends the cold opening and begins the show's opening sequence, which features several clips and images in montage of the show's cast accompanied by a reinterpretation of the classic Law & Order theme played in a pleasant air of the period. Eventually, the opening sequence ends and the drama resumes. EXT. RURAL NEW ENGLAND ROAD – NOON Constables Handjobb and Friction stand abreast of each other, and face the two women from before, whom they are interrogating regarding the developing case. HANDJOBB So, ye both claim to've seen a man plowing the Field of Mister Constance Putnam nary an hour ago? GOODEWOMAN #2 Yea…— 'twas awful, a truly terrible sight. HANDJOBB Not just plowing, Goodewoman. We found minute Seeds of squash in the Furrows;— therefore, we believe that he planted as well. GOODEWOMAN #2 Plowing and planting on the Sabbath? I would have never guessed that Mister Putnam was such a man. FRICTION But art thee sure it was Putnam that was plowing? GOODEWOMAN #2 Yea. GOODEWOMAN #1 No doubt;— it was the goodeman's field, after all. FRICTION But did'st thou actually see it was Mister Putnam, beyond doubt? GOODEWOMAN #1 I must confess, I could'st not clearly view the goodeman's face, due to the large buckl'd hat he was wearing, which obscur'd his Visage. Constable Handjobb scribbles down some notes on a piece of parchment. HANDJOBB Well, we want to be sure 'twas him;— it is a very serious thing he stands accus'd of doing. GOODEWOMAN #1 Well, Constable, Mister Putnam owns some seven hundred acres of land;— I know of no man who would willingly plow so many Furrows and sew his seeds within, let alone illicitly…—how I wish a goodeman would do such things to me. FRICTION Well, regardless ma'am, we must be certain of the Accusation. Hast the Goodeman Putnam any neighbors that we may interrogate? GOODEWOMAN #2 Yea, one: a Goodeman by the name of Prudence Mather. He lives four miles up the road. HANDJOBB Might he have witness'd anything, you reckon? GOODEWOMAN #2 Like I said, he lives four miles up the road. HANDJOBB Thankee, goodewomen. EXT. PRUDENCE MATHER'S DOORSTEP – AFTERNOON Constables Handjobb and Friction, who are quite out of breath from their miles-long trek, stand before the door of what is ostensibly Prudence Mather's home. Friction knocks on the door while Handjobb reaches to his overcoat pocket to produce his period-accurate badge, which is printed on a piece of rolled up parchment. Prudence Mather comes quickly to the door, and opens it to the exhausted constables. HANDJOBB Constables Handjobb and Friction, police. PRUDENCE MATHER What bring'st thee here, Constables? FRICTION We're here investigating a Matter relating to the plowing and planting of Mister Putnam's Field. MATHER Oh? HANDJOBB …—An act which occur'd on the Sabbath day, today. MATHER My God… HANDJOBB Did'st thou see anything suspicious today,— anything pertaining to the plowing of the Field in question, or to Mister Putnam? FRICTION An horse,— or other Beast of burden,— perhaps? Or a conspicuously large burlap Sack that might've held seeds? MATHER No, I did'st not. FRICTION Art thou sure? Lying to a Constable is a damnable Offense in the Eyes of God, I'll have thee know. MATHER Yea, I'm all but certain;— his property and mine art separated by a small forest: look'st for thyselves. Mather points to the side of his house, to indicate the forest of which he speaks. HANDJOBB Damme. FRICTION Well, dust thou know anything that might be relevant to our Investigation? MATHER I do know that Mister Putnam often enjoys visiting his brother, Verity Putnam, on the Sabbath Day. Perhaps speak'st with him? FRICTION Yea, thankee, and where does Mister Verity Putnam live? MATHER His Property lies on th' other side of Towne, sirs. HANDJOBB And how far be the trek there? Mather thinks a moment. MATHER Hm, no further than eight or nine Miles, I should think. Handjobb sighs. HANDJOBB Thankee, good Sir. Dun-dun EXT. VERITY PUTNAM'S DOORSTEP – LATE AFTERNOON Handjobb and Friction stand before yet another doorstep, this time of Mr. Verity Putnam, once again in physical exhaustion. Handjobb knocks on the door, which is answered shortly. VERITY PUTNAM What seem'st to be the Problem, Constables? Constable Handjobb exasperatedly unfurls his parchment badge. HANDJOBB I'm Constable Handjobb, and this is Constable Friction. We're here to inquire upon the actions of your brother, one Constance Putnam. V. PUTNAM 'S that so? And what begs this inquiry? FRICTION We believe your brother might be involved in a Sabbath-plowing-and- planting incident. V. PUTNAM 'Sblood, that's so unlike him. Dust thee think that I were also involved? FRICTION Nay, sir, we were curious as to whether or not your esteemèd brother were here at all today. V. PUTNAM He was not here this day, nay. HANDJOBB Hast thou any idea as to where else he could have been? V. PUTNAM Well, my brother was not the most devote of Church-goers, though he still did attend Mass more often that he did not: tho' he were not here, perhaps he was in attendance at the Church. FRICTION And which Church would that be, sir? V. PUTNAM The one near Towne's centre HANDJOBB And how far's that from here, sir? V. PUTNAM 'Tis not a long journey,— but a few Miles towneward. HANDJOBB Thankee, sir. Varity Putnam closes the door behind him, and Handjobb and Friction step away from the gentleman's door. FRICTION We really must obtain ourselves a Wagon. HANDJOBB Aye, you're telling me. INT. PURITAN CHURCH – EVENING Handjobb and Friction sit before one of the local reverends, and are visibly quite tired from all their running about throughout the day. HANDJOBB G'evening, Reverend. REVEREND G'evening. What brings thee here? HANDJOBB My Partner and I were wond'ring…— REVEREND 'Partner?' Ye twain aren't of a gay disposition, I hope? Handjobb answers quite nervously. HANDJOBB Oh, nay, nay goode Rev'rend, we are Constables. FRICTION Yea, and we're here to inquire about the attendance of one of your Parishioners. REVEREND Whom would that be? HANDJOBB One Constance Putnam, Rev'rend. Was he present at this day's Service? REVEREND Nay, I can't say that I remember him. FRICTION That resolves it then. REVEREND Resolves what? HANDJOBB Rev'rend, we believe that Constance Putnam may very well have plow'd and planted his field today, on the Sabbath. REVEREND Bless me, what is this world coming to…? HANDJOBB I know Rev'rend, 'tis a tragedy.— Yet thanks to you, we're about to take this Bastard down. Friction, let us to't! FRICTION 'Tis Sunset, Handjobb. HANDJOBB Aye, well…we shall apprehend the Sinner on the morrow, then! Dun-dun EXT. CONSTANCE PUTNAM'S DOORSTEP – MORNING Constable Handjobb and Constable Friction are accompanied by a number of unnamed, less-important constables outside the home of Mr. Constance Putnam. They are all armed with muskets. Handjobb and Friction press themselves against the wall on either side of Putnam's door, and prepare to forcibly enter the residence. HANDJOBB Ready, goodemen? Three…two…one…enter! Handjobb, Friction, and the other constables dramatically storm the Putnam house amid much shouting and clamor, eventually coming upon Putnam with his family at breakfast. PUTNAM What is the meaning of this? FRICTION Constance Putnam, thou art under arrest for the Plowing and Planting of thy Field…— PUTNAM But I haven't plow'd today yet! FRICTION …On the Sabbath. PUTNAM But 'tis a Monday! HANDJOBB Thou would do better, to not object or resist. We have witnesses that profess it so, and Evidence that condemns you. He produces the horse droppings from the day before and presents it to Putnam. HANDJOBB I suppose thou can tell'st me what this is? PUTNAM This entire thing is absurd! HANDJOBB Take him away, Friction. Friction produces a miniature stockade into which Putnam is placed, much to the horror and grief of his onlooking family, which is quite large. (Screenwriter's Note: cries of 'Oh no!,' 'Nay, Father!,' 'Please, tak'st him not!' etc. from his family may be added extemporaneously upon shooting.) FRICTION You're coming with us, goode sir. Thou hast the Right to Silence, anything thou say'st can and will be us'd against thee in a goode and lawful Court; thou hast the right to a Lawyer, tho' why thee would want such a thing is beyond me… FADEOUT EXT. GROUNDS OF THE COURTHOUSE – DAY Handjobb and Friction stand next to a man—who is seen to be a prostrate Putnam—pressed between two boards with large rocks being placed on top of the upper board. As this happens, the two constables are interrogating the compressed Putnam, with the implication being that this has gone on for quite some time. PUTNAM I am innocent, I tell ye! Innocent! HANDJOBB We have witnesses confirming they saw a Figure plowing thy Field, and yet more witnesses confirming that ye were not anywhere thy could'st have been upon that day! Confess to your Crime! Confess! PUTNAM I shall not! HANDJOBB Friction, add another boulder t' the boards! FRICTION Yea. Friction moves to add another boulder to the board, but he is interrupted by an offscreen interjection from what is revealed to be Putnam's attorney, Continence Pynchon, who has just arrived. CONTINENCE PYNCHON Cease this at once! HANDJOBB On what Authority? PYNCHON On that of the Court, sir. Pynchon produces a piece of parchment from his coat pocket. PYNCHON This barbaric Pressing ye perform is only to be done in matters concerning Murder, Rape, Theft, Witchcraft, Adultery, Usury, Embezzlement, and Tom-peeping thro' a lady's Window;— my Client stands accus'd of no such Crimes. HANDJOBB And who might'st thee be? PYNCHON I am Mister Putnam's hir'd Attorney, Continence Pynchon, here to defend him 'gainst the false accusations levied upon 'im. HANDJOBB False accusations, sir? PYNCHON Yea,— now I suggest thee stop crushing my Client 'neath those boards, so that I might defend him in the Courthouse. Pynchon walks away self-assuredly toward the building. FRICTION How I hate lawyers. PUTNAM Speak'st for thyself. INT. COURTHOUSE – DAY Putnam and Pynchon sit across the table from the local attorney Samuel Williams, who will be presenting the case against Putnam on behalf of the public. (Screenwriter's Note: ideally, the part of Samuel Williams should be played by someone roughly analogous to, but decidedly not, Sam Waterston.) SAMUEL WILLIAMS Mister Pynchon, if convicted, your Client shall be hanged by the neck for his crimes 'gainst Man and God;— we will lessen the punishment to but being drowned in the creek, if he but admit to the Accusations. PUTNAM I shall do no such thing! PYNCHON Hold your tongue, Mister Putnam….— He shall do no such thing, sir! WILLIAMS Very well then;— there is no choice, then, but to press ahead with the Trial. PYNCHON Do not be so hasty, Mister Williams: it so happens that my client has a certain amount of Knowledge regarding a local Coven of Witches. WILLIAMS Witches? What part could Sorc'ry possibly play in this Matter? PYNCHON A fiaire amount;— ye need only listen to Mister Putnam's Testimony. Dun-dun INT. COURTHOUSE TRIAL CHAMBER – DAY Presiding over the trial chamber of the courthouse is one Judge Hawthorne, an old, fiery, and decidedly puritanical man. Sitting before Judge Hawthorne behind a very heavy and embellished period table is Putnam, who is flanked to his left by Pynchon, his attorney. Williams, the prosecuting attorney, sits behind another period table next to the one which the other two men sit behind. JUDGE HAWTHORNE Mister Constance Putnam, ye stand accus'd of plowing and seeding thy Field on the Sabbath Day. However, thy attorney has informed me that you claim this Act of which you stand accus'd was performed under the influence of Daemonick Sorcery from a local Coven of Witches…— Those in attendance gasp in shock, leading Judge Hawthorne to bang his gavel in an attempt to call his court to order. HAWTHORNE Order in this Court! Order! … Now, Mister Putnam, can'st ye produce any Evidence supporting this claim of yours? PUTNAM Well, goode sir, I cannot in Faith say'st so, but…— look'st! Look'st there! 'Tis an evil Apparition of a Plow! HAWTHORNE Where!? PUTNAM There! 'Tis there! HAWTHORNE I can'st not see it. At this point Constance Putnam falls to the floor and begins to roll around, as if he were on fire. PUTNAM Aggghhh! WILLIAMS Your Honor, I really must object to this… HAWTHORNE Objection upheld: Mister Putnam, if ye must be afflictèd by an evil apparition, I suggest ye do it seated. Putnam abruptly ceases his flailing, and returns to his seat. PUTNAM Yes, your Honor. HAWTHORNE Now, whom in this Towne belongs to the Witches' Coven you claim to exist—? WILLIAMS Actually your Honor, my objection was in regard to the Nature of the Goodeman's Testimony itself, which the prosecution feels has little to do with the matter he is being tried for, and, furthermore…— HAWTHORNE Mister Williams, what reason have you to object to the Testimony of Mister Putnam, 'less the goodeman's Testimony implicates yourself in the Hellish Accusations being levied? WILLIAMS Judge Hawthorne, I can assure thee I am no…— PUTNAM WITCH! Putnam frantically points toward Samuel Williams. PUTNAM WITCH! This sudden accusation is met with gasps and cries from those in attendance, leading Judge Hawthorne to bang his gavel yet again. HAWTHORNE I'll have Order in this Court! Order! … Mister Samuel Williams, thou art accus'd of practicing the Dark Arts, having Consort with daemonic ambassadors of Hell, and having carnal Knowledge of the Evil One;— Constables, take him away! 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49 U.S. Code § 101 - Purpose
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(a) The national objectives of general welfare, economic growth and stability, and security of the United States require the development of transportation policies and programs that contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the United States.
(b) A Department of Transportation is necessary in the public interest and to—
(1) ensure the coordinated and effective administration of the transportation programs of the United States Government;
(2) make easier the development and improvement of coordinated transportation service to be provided by private enterprise to the greatest extent feasible;
(3) encourage cooperation of Federal, State, and local governments, carriers, labor, and other interested persons to achieve transportation objectives;
(4) stimulate technological advances in transportation, through research and development or otherwise;
Source(Pub. L. 97–449, § 1(b),Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2414; Pub. L. 102–240, title VI, § 6018,Dec. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 2183.)
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|Oct. 15, 1966, Pub. L. 89–670, § 2(a), (b)(1), 80 Stat. 931.
In subsections (a) and (b), the introductory declaratory words are omitted as surplus.
In subsection (a), the words "national objectives of" are inserted for clarity. The words "United States" are substituted for "Nation" and "Nation's", respectively, for consistency. The word "contribute" is substituted for "conducive" because the substituted word is more commonly used. The word "those" is substituted for "utilization".
In subsection (b)(2), the word "greatest" is substituted for "maximum" for consistency.
In subsection (b)(3) and (6), the word "national" is omitted before "transportation" as unnecessary and for consistency.
In subsection (b)(3), the word "persons" is substituted for "parties" as being more precise.
In subsection (b)(6), the words "transportation objectives" are substituted for "these objectives" for clarity and consistency. The words "full and appropriate" and "for approval" are omitted as surplus.
1991—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 102–240inserted ", through research and development or otherwise" after "advances in transportation".
Short Title of 2004 Amendment
Pub. L. 108–426, § 1,Nov. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2423, provided that: "This Act [enacting section 108 of this title, amending sections 111, 112, 5118, and 5503 of this title, sections 5314 and 5316 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, section 844 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, section 2761 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, and section 1121–2 of Title 46, Appendix, Shipping, enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 108 and 112 of this title, and amending provisions set out as a note under section 1135 of this title] may be cited as the 'Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act'."
Short Title of 1999 Amendment
Pub. L. 106–159, § 1(a),Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1748, provided that: "This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the 'Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999'."
Short Title of 1995 Amendment
Pub. L. 104–88, § 1(a),Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 803, provided that: "This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the 'ICC Termination Act of 1995'."
Short Title of 1994 Amendment
Pub. L. 103–411, § 1,Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4236, provided that: "This Act [amending sections 1118, 1131, and 40102 of this title and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 1131 and 40109 of this title] may be cited as the 'Independent Safety Board Act Amendments of 1994'."
Short Title of 1991 Amendment
Pub. L. 102–240, § 1,Dec. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 1914, provided that: "This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the 'Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991'."
Deemed References to Chapters 509 and 511 of Title 51
Pub. L. 111–314, § 4(d)(8),Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3443, provided that: "In title 49, United States Code, references to 'this title' are deemed to refer also to chapters 509 and 511 of title 51, United States Code."
Congressional Declaration of Policy Regarding National Intermodal Transportation System
Pub. L. 102–240, § 2,Dec. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 1914, which provided that it was the policy of the United States to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System consisting of all forms of transportation in a unified, interconnected manner, a National Highway System, improvements in public transportation achieving goals for improved air quality, energy conservation, international competitiveness, and mobility for elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged persons, was repealed and reenacted as section 5501 of this title by Pub. L. 103–272, §§ 1(d), 7(b),July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 848, 1379.
"Secretary" Defined
Pub. L. 106–159, § 2,Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1749, provided that: "In this Act [see Tables for classification], the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Transportation."
Pub. L. 102–240, § 3,Dec. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 1915, provided that: "As used in this Act [see Short Title of 1991 Amendment note set out above], the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Transportation."
Ex. Ord. No. 13330. Human Service Transportation Coordination
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to enhance access to transportation to improve mobility, employment opportunities, and access to community services for persons who are transportation-disadvantaged, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. This order is issued consistent with the following findings and principles:
(a) A strong America depends on citizens who are productive and who actively participate in the life of their communities.
(b) Transportation plays a critical role in providing access to employment, medical and health care, education, and other community services and amenities. The importance of this role is underscored by the variety of transportation programs that have been created in conjunction with health and human service programs, and by the significant Federal investment in accessible public transportation systems throughout the Nation.
(c) These transportation resources, however, are often difficult for citizens to understand and access, and are more costly than necessary due to inconsistent and unnecessary Federal and State program rules and restrictions.
(d) A broad range of Federal program funding allows for the purchase or provision of transportation services and resources for persons who are transportation-disadvantaged. Yet, in too many communities, these services and resources are fragmented, unused, or altogether unavailable.
(e) Federally assisted community transportation services should be seamless, comprehensive, and accessible to those who rely on them for their lives and livelihoods. For persons with mobility limitations related to advanced age, persons with disabilities, and persons struggling for self-sufficiency, transportation within and between our communities should be as available and affordable as possible.
(f) The development, implementation, and maintenance of responsive, comprehensive, coordinated community transportation systems is essential for persons with disabilities, persons with low incomes, and older adults who rely on such transportation to fully participate in their communities.
Sec. 2. Definitions. (a) As used in this order, the term "agency" means an executive department or agency of the Federal Government.
(b) For the purposes of this order, persons who are transportation-disadvantaged are persons who qualify for Federally conducted or Federally assisted transportation-related programs or services due to disability, income, or advanced age.
Sec. 3. Establishment of the Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility. (a) There is hereby established, within the Department of Transportation for administrative purposes, the "Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility" ("Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council" or "Council"). The membership of the Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council shall consist of:
(i) the Secretaries of Transportation, Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and the Interior, the Attorney General, and the Commissioner of Social Security; and
(ii) such other Federal officials as the Chairperson of the Council may designate.
(b) The Secretary of Transportation, or the Secretary's designee, shall serve as the Chairperson of the Council. The Chairperson shall convene and preside at meetings of the Council, determine its agenda, direct its work, and, as appropriate to particular subject matters, establish and direct subgroups of the Council, which shall consist exclusively of the Council's members.
(c) A member of the Council may designate any person who is part of the member's agency and who is an officer appointed by the President or a full-time employee serving in a position with pay equal to or greater than the minimum rate payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule to perform functions of the Council or its subgroups on the member's behalf.
Sec. 4. Functions of the Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council. The Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council shall:
(a) promote interagency cooperation and the establishment of appropriate mechanisms to minimize duplication and overlap of Federal programs and services so that transportation-disadvantaged persons have access to more transportation services;
(b) facilitate access to the most appropriate, cost-effective transportation services within existing resources;
(c) encourage enhanced customer access to the variety of transportation and resources available;
(d) formulate and implement administrative, policy, and procedural mechanisms that enhance transportation services at all levels; and
(e) develop and implement a method for monitoring progress on achieving the goals of this order.
Sec. 5. Report. In performing its functions, the Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council shall present to me a report not later than 1 calendar year from the date of this order. The report shall:
(a) Identify those Federal, State, Tribal and local laws, regulations, procedures, and actions that have proven to be most useful and appropriate in coordinating transportation services for the targeted populations;
(b) Identify substantive and procedural requirements of transportation-related Federal laws and regulations that are duplicative or restrict the laws' and regulations' most efficient operation;
(c) Describe the results achieved, on an agency and program basis, in: (i) simplifying access to transportation services for persons with disabilities, persons with low income, and older adults; (ii) providing the most appropriate, cost-effective transportation services within existing resources; and (iii) reducing duplication to make funds available for more services to more such persons;
(d) Provide recommendations to simplify and coordinate applicable substantive, procedural, and administrative requirements; and
(e) Provide any other recommendations that would, in the judgment of the Council, advance the principles set forth in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 6. General. (a) Agencies shall assist the Interagency Transportation Coordinating Council and provide information to the Council consistent with applicable law as may be necessary to carry out its functions. To the extent permitted by law, and as permitted by available agency resources, the Department of Transportation shall provide funding and administrative support for the Council.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.George W. Bush.
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Towing refers to an ability in Grand Theft Auto games to tow or pull an object, specifically a trailer or vehicle, using another vehicle. The feature is first made possible in Grand Theft Auto 2, when semi-trailer trucks possess the ability to pull trailers. The feature is also present in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto V.
Attachments with trailers simply require the player reverse their vehicle into the front of a trailer until the camera readjusts itself to center on both the hauler and the trailer, confirming the coupling is complete. When pulling a trailer, the vehicle will possess poorer performance due to the need to pull extra weight, especially with regards to steering as the vehicle is now longer. Players have the option of detaching trailers after attachment.
All in all, GTA 2 features three forms of trailers, one of which is somewhat useful in actual gameplay. The Truck Cab and the Truck Cab SX represent the game's only two semi-trailer trucks, and are also the only vehicles in GTA 2 capable of attaching to and pulling trailers. Players may detach a trailer using the attack key or button.
Trailers sustain damage like other vehicles, and also emit fire the same way when heavily damaged, even exploding when destroyed, posing a danger to the player if they are pulling a trailer that is in bad condition.
GTA San Andreas
GTA San Andreas is the first game after GTA 2 to reintroduce the ability to pull loads. The game mechanics of attaching to and pulling a trailer is roughly the same as in GTA 2, but trailers may decouple from a vehicle using a specific command or if physical force (i.e. jackknifing, dislodging due to rough terrains or jumps, excessive speed, etc.) is subjected to the trailer. However, there is no single button to detach the trailers. There is a glitch in the PS2 version where taking a picture of the attachment will detach the trailers but the glitch is fixed in subsequent versions.
Along with the game's three semi-trailer trucks (the Linerunner, Tanker and Roadtrain), the game also introduces a different range of vehicles with roughly the same capability, including:
- The Tow Truck, which employs an adjustable boom at the back to pull any large vehicle.
- The Tractor, which uses an adjustable tow hitch to pull smaller hauls or large vehicles.
- The Utility Van and Baggage, which feature a stationary tow hitch to pull smaller hauls.
The trailers themselves consist of a more varied range of items, some of which are not available unless they are spawned using a third-party trainer. In total, GTA San Andreas features eight types of trailers: Four semi-trailers and four specialized trailers.
All trailers in general are capable of exploding entirely if severely damaged or flipped over, but specialized trailers have several other peculiarities, including functional headlights and taillights that light up at night or in a dark location, and the ability to emit smoke if sufficiently damaged (Including those that would never burn, much less explode). This is because all trailers are classified as vehicles, although they are defined with a different classification to other road vehicles.
Truck trailers are prominently used in the Trucking side missions.
The ability to tow trailers returns in GTA V, with mechanics almost identical to those in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Any semi with a hitch in the back can be reversed into most trailers, which will then automatically attach themselves. The player can unhook the trailer at any time, even while moving, which can offer a performance boost if needed or aid a getaway if executed properly. On highways, most often outside of Los Santos, semi trucks hauling various forms of cargo can be seen in traffic. Beyond commercial hauling, the Tow Truck returns, with the ability to move vehicles.
GTA: Chinatown Wars
In GTA Chinatown Wars, there is a Tanker. There are also a couple of missions that require either pulling up or detaching a Hellenbach or another object, either with a Recovery or a Reefer.
List of trailers
|A container trailer.
|A tanker trailer for liquid loads. Not to be confused with a Tanker truck (Early Ray Larabie design).
|A flat bed trailer. With the Transporter, the player has the ability to place any car on the trailer using single, unmarked cranes located in each district of the city; likewise, vehicles on trailers can be unloaded using the same cranes. When a gang car is placed on the truck, its gang markings disappears for as long as it is on the trailer.
GTA San Andreas
|Articulated Trailer
|A trailer designed to carry solid loads. The trailer is available in three forms, two fully covered (
artict1 and
artict3) and one hopper (
|Tanker Trailer
|A fuel tank trailer bearing Xoomer livery. Tanker trucks always uses these trailers. Spawn with a cheat.
|Specialized trailers
|Farm Trailer
|A cultivator intended to be pulled by a Tractor, complete with functional chisels that move as the Farm Trailer is in motion. The Farm Trailer can be found at a farm in Tierra Robada near the Bait Shop, although no Tractors can be found in the desert. It is also found at the Blueberry Acres farm near Blueberry in Red County. It can also be found at the East side of the farm buildings across the water, West of Palomino Creek
|Utility Trailer
|A black utility trailer intended for the Utility Van. The trailer is not normally available in game, and can only be spawned using a third-party trainer or car spawner. The reason for its lack of availability in-game is unknown. If the trailer is spawned at night, connected to the Utility Van, then turned on its side or upsidedown a headlight can be seen[1].
|Tug Stairs
|A mobile staircase commonly found in airports, intended for the Baggage and ideal for access into an AT-400 where a permanent platform is not available. Its high center of gravity may often lead it to topple over during high speed cornering. It is classed as a vehicle as a Heat Seeking Rocket Launcher can lock onto it and if shot at enough it will explode like an ordinary car.
|Baggage Box
|A luggage box commonly found in airports, and intended for the Baggage. Available open (
bagbox a) or closed (
bagbox b), and may also be attached to other Baggage Boxes or the Tug Stairs. The Baggage Box also features its own steering axle.
Grand Theft Auto V includes several trailers:
|Boat trailers
|Pulled by Sadlers and Bison (vehicle)s. They usually spawn with boats on board. The player back the trailer into water and use the boat.
|Leisure trailers
|Spawn frequently being towed by Sadlers and Bisons. Often carry objects that can fall out if the trailer is flipped or hit with enough force.
|Generator trailers
|Pulled by Sadlers and Bisons. The generator trailer is used to supply electricity in remote areas, but is useless in actual gameplay.
|Artict trailers
|Standard variation with boxy design, similar with GTA San Andreas. Also bears companies, such Up-n-Atom Burger.
|Car trailers
|Sometimes spawn with cars on board.
|Tanker trailers
|Used to carry gasoline. Can explode if shot enough times, potentially bearing danger to a player hauling it. A camouflaged variant is used by the military. These trailers can often be found when driving in Paleto Bay
|Cargo trailers (i.e. lorries/trucks)
|Flat trailers are used to carry things. Logs or containers usually spawn on these.
|Big boat trailers
|The semi trailers that haul large boats. Once appears in the mission Father/Son.
- In Online, other players can ride on top of certain trailer types. This can be used to transport more than two people while driving a semi, but low structures, and crashing can sometimes knock players off while on the trailers.


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Kelly Beins believed her daughter was ready for a change in schools.
In particular, the Frederick resident was looking for smaller classes as her daughter prepared to enter fourth grade this year.
Frederick's Visitation Academy met that requirement, along with offering a single-sex education environment.
"There was just a warmth about it that was inviting," Beins said. "The more we found out, the more that was validated."
Beins' daughter was one of 36 new students this year at the all-girl private Catholic school in downtown Frederick.
Over the past two years, Visitation has grown to 145 students — a 33 percent increase from just two years ago.
Other local Catholic schools are seeing — or expecting — higher student numbers as the economy rebounds and more houses are built in the county.
Visitation administrators are not surprised at the recent increase, they say, and attribute it to the school's Catholic identity, high academic standards and single-sex setting.
"The whole package is what draws parents in," Visitation Principal Lynne Kirby said.
Although enrollment at Visitation has increased recently, it is not at its highest point since the school was founded in 1846, according to Kirby.
Enrollment was highest when the school had student "boarders," who lived on campus until 2005, she said.
The school could not board students after the Visitation sisters left, because the campus is no longer staffed day and night, according to executive director Carol Guaccero.
Guaccero believes Visitation will continue to grow as the only all-girl school in a 40-mile radius, she said, because of the opportunities that option offers students.
Visitation can now enroll a maximum of 165 students at its four-acre campus in downtown Frederick, but there is room on campus to expand, Guaccero said.
"We're open to all possibilities," she said.
Tuition at Visitation is $7,000 a year for students in grades one through eight and $7,500 for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten programs.
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Enrollment at St. John Regional Catholic School increased by 22 students this year after the school added a new pre-kindergarten program, according to Principal Karen Smith.
St. John Regional has 584 students enrolled through eighth grade this year, but the highest number of students came during the 2005-06 school year, when the school moved to Opossumtown Pike.
After having more than 600 students that year, Smith said enrollment declined because of the economy and families making job-related moves out of the area.
With a turnaround in the economy and new development planned in the county, Smith said, there is plenty of room for growth in a school building that can fit 850 students.
"Our hope would be that we would be able to add classes," she said.
Tuition at St. John is up to $7,830 for one student in grades kindergarten through eight.
St. John's Catholic Prep reported a slightly lower enrollment this year than last, but Diane Favret, the school's executive director of institutional advancement, said last year's graduating class was large, which added to the drop.
The 261 students enrolled at St. John's is less than the 280 to 300 students the school had in the mid- to late 2000s, but Favret said a move to Buckeystown could spur enrollment to climb closer to 400.
Tuition at St. John's is $13,645 for the 2012-13 school year.
St. John's Catholic Prep is scheduled to move into the old St. Thomas More Academy property in Buckeystown in January.
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Did the United States test an anti-satellite weapon when it shot down an out-of-control spy satellite earlier this month? Or was it a precautionary measure to protect people on the ground who might have been hit with a fuel tank filled with a poisonous gas?
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Jeffrey A. Miron on Legalizing Drugs
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Originally aired on 11/20/09 on FoxBusiness.com Live. Jeffrey A. Miron, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Drug War Crimes, argues in favor of legalizing marijuana and other drugs in the U.S.
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St. Petersburg, Florida -- Police in St. Petersburg said several shots were fired at them early Wednesday morning as they were making an arrest, but no one was injured.
Shortly before 4 a.m., a car was seen driving recklessly as it left the Obama Express convenience store, located at 1400 18th Avenue South. The driver of the Toyota Camry got into two crashes as he left the area.
Then at about 4:30 a.m, St. Petersburg Police Officers responded to several calls of "shots heard in the area" of 4th Avenue South and 42nd Street South.
Arriving officers saw a man breaking windows in the back of a home. The Toyota Camry that had been involved in the earlier hit and run crashes at the Obama Express was also seen parked behind the house.
Police say the car had heavy damage on it and what appeared to be blood-splatter on its exterior. However, police said no injuries had been reported in the hit and run crashes.
Police say the man who was seen breaking out the windows, 22-year-old Travis Bruce, admitted to being the driver of the Camry. He was arrested on numerous charges, including two counts of leaving the scene of a crash with property damage and criminal mischief.
The car has been impounded and will be processed for DNA and other forensic evidence.
Police say Bruce's girlfriend lives in the house he was breaking windows out of. Based on preliminary information, investigators believe there was an underlying domestic dispute going on between Bruce and another man over the girlfriend.
As Bruce was being arrested, several officers saw a sedan circling the block, passing by the house several times.
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Several minutes later, at about 4:51 a.m., a police supervisor spotted the suspect's vehicle heading northbound on I-275, but the vehicle exited on 22nd Avenue North and was not located.
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I talked (emailed actually) a fair amount with the designer and publisher to get a better idea of what this should look like. They wanted a more-or-less green map as they were going to have counters that would be predominantly white with red and burnt orange colours and they wanted the green to make them stand out. There are three different kinds of man-made terrain- castles, cities, and walled cities.
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text: Welcome to Rosalind Picard's touchy-feely world of empathic tech Magazine Features 27 November 12 by Adam Higginbotham This article was taken from the Novembef 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.A woman -- and, worse than that, a blonde -- Rosalind Picard was determined to have nothing to do with the study of emotion. Twenty years ago, for a young research scientist in the male-dominated world of electrical engineering, there were already enough stereotypes working against her. Studying something as irrational as emotion could only open her to ridicule. After years of chip design at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, her research was as cold-blooded as that of any of her peers: content-based retrieval, modelling machine architecture and building algorithms to enable computers to see. This was a central part of the quest to build a true artificial intelligence which, like many at the time, Picard believed could be achieved by reproducing the higher functions of the human brain -- the visual cortex, the auditory cortex -- that were involved in most perceptual experiences.But, prompted by reading The Man Who Tasted Shapes, neurologist Richard Cytowic's case study of synaesthesia in which the subject's strange sensory episodes took place while his cortex was shutting down, she began to doubt that perception was as straightforward as she had thought. Picard had became intrigued by the idea that the limbic system -- traditionally regarded as the most ancient part of the brain and the home of memory, attention and emotion -- could have a role in the process. Reading more, she learned that emotion not only affects what goes into the memory, but also guides perception by helping make choices between different stimuli -- determining what we find interesting. The more Picard discovered about the limbic system, the clearer it became that any attempt to build a perceiving computer that did not take account of emotion would fail. "I realised we're not going to build intelligent machines until we build, if not something we call emotion, then something that functions like our emotion systems."Still, Picard didn't want to be associated with work on emotion; she tried to talk colleagues into it, but failed. Eventually, she reluctantly took on the work herself and in 1995 circulated a tech report she called Affective Computing, arguing the importance of integrating emotions into the machine environment. In the radical environment of the Media Lab, this was just the kind of work she was expected to do: one colleague appeared in the doorway of her office shaking a copy of it and approvingly declaring it to be "crazy".Elsewhere, the reaction to her ideas was just as she had feared; her manifesto was rejected from every peer-reviewed publication she submitted it to. In 1997 one reviewer suggested it was better suited to an in-flight magazine. Later that year, at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, an annual event that attracts specialists in the field from all over the world, she overheard a group of scientists discussing her. "That's Rosalind Picard," they said."She used to do respectable work."Today, Picard's tech note, and the book she followed it with in 1997, are credited with creating an entirely new field of study -- one now significant enough to require its own journal. From her office overlooking the yawning meeting space of the Media Lab's East Laboratory -- a two-storey-deep romper room scattered with experimental equipment and bric-a-brac -- she now oversees the Affective Computing research group. With a team of ten graduate students working on projects as disparate as "emotional social prosthetics" for autistic children, and robot sponsors for recovering drug addicts, for more than a decade the group has been pioneering work in emotion measurement and communication technology. Last year, Picard and her Media Lab colleague, Egyptian-born computer scientist Rana El Kaliouby, spun off a private company, Affectiva, to exploit emotion-recognition technology for use in advertising and marketing.In the years since she first conceived the term "affective computing", Picard says that the aims of artificial-intelligence research have evolved subtly but profoundly. Both in Picard's lab and in the field at large, work has moved away from perfecting machines that are intelligent for their own sake, towards building those that can use emotional intelligence to help us solve problems. Today, her research group concentrates on creating tools that help computers understand human emotions, not to try to mimic them. This has the added benefit of shifting research away from the pursuit of a goal -- computer consciousness -- that threatened to make humans obsolete. "We've decided it's more about building a better human-machine combination," Picard explains late one afternoon in June, "than it is about building a machine where we will be lucky if it wants us around as a household pet."In the beginning, much of the work of the Affective Computing group was focused on making computers easier for humans to get along with. "Computers were frustrating," Picard says. "Human/computer interaction is intrinsically natural and social. I thought, we're trying to build intelligent machines, but people emote at machines and machines have been unintelligent in not responding to it."Human beings have long had unreasonable expectations of computer empathy. Regardless of how rationally aware we might be that they are boxes of components processing information, we interact with computers as if they are people -- and become very exercised when the machine doesn't respond in kind. In a 2010 Intel survey, 80 percent of people admitted having become frustrated with their computer, while 33 percent described seeing a colleague shouting abuse at theirs; 24 percent admitted hitting their screen or keyboard. "I love the story of the chef in New York who threw his computer in a deep-fat fryer," Picard says. "There was a guy who fired severalshots through the monitor and several through the hard drive. You don't do that because you're having a great experience."Picard's favourite example of computers' lack of emotional intelligence is Clippy, the relentlessly perky animated paperclip employed as an onscreen assistant in many iterations of Microsoft Office -- and infamously detested by users. Clippy materialised, unbidden, each time the software suspected you needed assistance -- with writing a letter or spelling a word -- bursting with cheerful suggestions, paying no regard to how busy or bad-tempered the user was, and even when repeatedly sent away insisted on doing a little dance before departing. "That is emotionally unintelligent behaviour," Picard says.Clippy proved so unpopular that Microsoft approached the research group to find ways in which he would know when he was unwelcome. The team devised a squeezable mouse with pressure sensors designed to detect tension; in one demonstration a student tried to address a letter to a Mr Abotu, a name the software repeatedly insisted on changing to "Mr About". As the software registered the student's grip tightening in fury, Clippy appeared and observed, "It seems as if you're frustrated. Should I turn off AutoCorrect?"The squeezable mouse was one of many tools the Affective Computing group devised at the end of the 90s to enable machines to read emotional cues better. These included spectacles that could detect a frown and a hat with a camera to scan facial expressions. There was also something named the "galvactivator", a glove that measured the electrical current conducted between two points on the skin, which increases with sweating, to provide an index of emotional arousal. Back in 1999, MIT students used the galvactivator to enhance Quake -- plugged into a modified version of the game, it made characters leap backwards when it registered players' shock. But the interface it provided was far more significant than this use suggests: the wearable biosensors created then have become the basis of the most far-reaching applications yet to emerge from Picard's lab. In her office on the second floor of MIT's Media Lab building, Picard shakes out a small plastic bag over her desk. Picking through a selection of grubby-looking towelling sweatbands, she alights on a dusty pink one, decorated with a bow. "Ah," Picard says, "there's the one I could have worn to that cocktail party the other night." Inside each of the bands is a prototype of Affectiva's Q Sensor -- a metal and plastic lozenge slightly larger than a box of matches -- that records electrodermal response and wirelessly transmits the data to a laptop or smartphone. Until now the only way to gather such data has been through fingertip electrodes, which can only be worn for up to 20 minutes at a time. But the MIT team's wearable and durable biosensor now makes it possible to map an individual's stress levels in real time, for weeks at a stretch. Picard and her students have been enthusiastic guinea pigs, providing thousands of hours of information about their emotional states; when Wired arrives, the first thing Picard does is strap on a sensor, which streams data to the computer on her desk. Picard knows how her nervous system reacts to REM sleep, parties, being ill and giving presentations; she can show you in detail how she reacted to taking her son on a Six Flags rollercoaster for his birthday (she found getting the boy and his friends to the theme park more stressful than anything that happened inside its gates). Read page 2 123 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --- The birth of the Rebecca Lipkin Fund comes after the death of a courageous woman who fought a rare form of breast cancer.
In 2009, Rebecca Lipkin, 48, died after a two-year battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer or IBC. This type of cancer is an uncommon diagnosis for breast cancer patients in the United States. Lipkin was a well-traveled broadcast news producer for ABC News and Al Jazeera English.
IBC is an aggressive cancer that spreads through the body's lymph nodes. Meanwhile, IBC may escape early detection, because the cancer does not appear in regular mammograms. The illness appears as an inflamed or spreading rash on the breast.
Lipkin's family and friends have set up the Rebecca Lipkin Fund through a partnership with Susan G. Komen For The Cure. The fund will go toward research into IBC and finding a method of detecting the cancer earlier.
"She was so courageous...and I know she was in so much pain, and I feel so badly about that. A way that I can feel good is to know that we're raising money and that we're making a difference, " says Lipkin's older sister, Harriet.
After her diagnosis in 2007, Lipkin decided to share her story through video diaries.
"She was a television producer. When she found out that she had cancer, she attacked it like she was attacking a story," says Dennis Powell, a close friend and long-time co-worker.
Lipkin explains her cancer treatment and personal journey with her sense of humor intact. In her video, she says she is a "cancer diva," and her loved ones shower her with attention.
"Becca lived life to the fullest. One thing I wondered...Was there some kind of voice in her head? Did she know that her life was going to be cut short? Because she packed more into her 48 years than I think 48 people could pack into a hundred years," says Harriet.
The first Rebecca Lipkin Fund award ceremony honors Channel 9's morning anchor, Andrea Roane, for her work on breast cancer awareness.
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WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW) -- "You can actually smell it. So it's very strong," said Sgt. Sean Cochran.
That smell was 155 marijuana plants -- a major bust in this remote part of Burke County.
"We have person in custody right now," Sgt. Cochran said.
The suspect is 32-year-old Robert Allen Tillman who lived at the home.
Investigators say he was growing the weed inside a shed out back that he had turned into a drug laboratory.
"It had a nice expensive air conditioning unit outside," Cochran said. "And a nice big padlock on the door."
Now he's facing felony charges, which could land him anywhere between five and 30 years in prison.
Deputies say a tip led them to the operation.
"Once you catch it being manufactured, you're actually beating them at their own game," Cochran said. "Because they don't have the chance to get it out to the street to make the money."
They say the lab was well equipped with six lamps, five power inverters and a bucket of chemicals.
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7 Things We Can Learn From Olympic AthletesJeannette Kaplun
I live for moments like the Summer Olympics, when millions can just revel in the inspiration set forth by the athletes that have trained all their lives for this competition. This year I watched the trials with my children and not only enjoyed them, but I realized how much we can all learn from these amazing men and women (many of whom are actually teens).
Aside from being glued to the TV set during the almost all the U.S. Olympic trials, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview three Olympic medalists: Steven López (Taekwondo 2000 and 2004 Olympic Gold medalist and a 2008 Olympic Bronze medalist), Henry Cejudo (Wrestling 2008 Olympic Gold medalist) and Diana López (Taekwondo 2008 Olympic Bronze medalist).
Not only do they inspire you. Just by looking at other athletes you can learn so much. When Nastia Liukin fell literally flat on her face I wanted to cry, but when she got up and received a standing ovation, I realized that's something we should all do.
Here are the seven lessons we can all learn from Olympic athletes:
You lose only when you give up. 1 of 7Olympic athletes are not only at the top of their game physically. Emotionally, they know they have to persist, get past barriers and keep fighting for their dreams. Gymnast McKayla Maroney fell on June 10th during the Visa Championships, had a concussion and a broken nose just weeks before the trials. The 16 year old is now in London and is a top contender for the gold medal for vault, because she refused to give up.
No matter how hard the fall, you can get up. 2 of 7When Nastia Liukin fell literally flat on her face at this year's gymnastics trials, she could have burst into tears, called a paramedic, or simply walked off the mat. Instead, she got up, dusted her hands once again and resumed her routine. She might have lost a spot on the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Team, but she got a standing ovation and kept her dignity throughout.
It doesn't matter where you started. 3 of 7All that matters is what you do with your life. Your actions determine where you end up. So many athletes are living proof that no matter how difficult their childhoods, they went against the odds and have excelled on their own. Henry Cejudo's mom worked two or even three jobs to put food on the table for her seven children.
Competition is not a dirty word. 4 of 7Not only can it push you to be better, it can inspire you to do more and achieve what others thought was impossible. Not only can you see it in gymnastics, but also in the swimming competitions. Watching Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte race against each other is awe-inspiring every single time and I'm sure it pushes them to swim as fast as they can humanly can. Photo: Facebook.com/USAswimming Official Fan Page
Its not about money. 5 of 7It's about perseverance. None of the Olympic athletes I have had the privilege of meeting came from wealthy families. Far from it, actually. However, they found ways to train and used their creativity and hard work to fund their equipment and lessons. Wrestler Henry Cejudo even wore a rubber chicken costume in 115-degree weather to earn the money to attend tournaments.
Parents matter. 6 of 7The athletes I have interviewed all have strong mothers that believed in their children and supported them. Other Olympians have had a family member coach them since they were young, such as the López siblings. This applies to all facets of life, so make sure to show your child you believe in them and that you support their quest. Be involved, especially in his or her education.
It all starts with a dream. 7 of 7Both Steven López and Henry Cejudo stressed this to me over and over again. And the truth is, if you can't dream, there's no way you'll achieve it.
Good luck to the amazing and inspiring athletes that will be showing their sportsmanship, resilience and talent during the 2012 London Olympics!
Photos: The Official Henry Cejudo Fan Page, The Official USA Swimming Fan Page, Jeannette Kaplun.
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René Bijloo is the director of ACCESO, an organization promoting of solar cooking in Spain. They teach solar cooking workshops, and also write a cooking blog started by René. He began using a solar cooker in 2000, and has worked to create recipes that work well with solar cookers.
News and recent developments
- February 2012: ACCESO is offering solar cookers for free ( 3-6 units per project, one cooker can cook for 10-15 persons per day), only to NGOs involved in humanitarian projects that need solar energy supply, shipping not included, and ask for feedback when the project is done, images, video, etc. The cookers are located in Bullas, Murcia, Spain. Each parabolic solar cooker K14 is packed in its carton-box (size aprox 127 x 23 x 3 cm), has to be mounted and weighs around 10kg. The value of each cooker is 230,00 euros. One pot can be included. For questions and proposals, please contact René Bijloo via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter : https://twitter.com/#!/cocinasolarrene
Audio and video
External links
- http://cocinasolarparabolica.blogspot.com René also manages this blog on solar cooking recipes.
- Twitter account: https://twitter.com/#!/cocinasolarrene
René Bijloo
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Traffic Jam Free
by GameJoy Inc
Developer Notes
Traffic Jam is a very addictive puzzle game. The objective of the game is to get the yellow car out of the traffic jam. Sound simple, but incredible challenging at the difficult level.
The game contains 5000 levels, guarantee hours of entertainment.
3 Themes included:
- Car park
- Harbor
- Ice...
It's as frustrating but more fun than a real traffic jam — This is a puzzle where the object of the game is to get the yellow car out of the traffic jam. You have to rearrange the cars all around it by moving them up and down and side to side. Like other games the the more levels you continue to the more complicated it gets. It's fun but you may feel...


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