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This is an exciting year for SONY with the new roll out of the 4K handycam fdr-ax100, a7, a7r, and a5000 Compact with Interchangeable lens. 4K (ultra HD) was all the rage at SONY's press conference Monday night Jan 6 2014. Mike Fasulo President and COO of SONY provided a description of what 4K content and hardware provide. In short, 4K is a higher quality resolution. An example is that 2K is 1080 pixels screen resolution which is a top of the line regular HDTV format. So, by comparison 4K is twice the depth and resolution at 3840 pixels. As more and more monitors and screen displays come out there is a need for more and more content at this specific 4K resolution.
One answer is the 4K handycam fdr-ax100 (30 frames per second at 3,840 x 2,160) at a retail price of $2000, as Mike Fasulo described in his pitch "4K for 2K." This camera is packed with technology including m2m (machine 2 machine) communication. The camera is back illuminated with a one inch CMOS image sensor. If we look at the evolution of cameras, we see them get less expensive and smaller in one part due to CMOS being less expensive than the CCD image sensor. The CMOS has a weak blooming effect, which means that with overlaoded light exposed to the sensor, there is a bleeding effect of the light into other pixels. A disadvantage to using CMOS is capturing high speed photography such as a speeding car, the car will be in focus, where the background may be tilted. CCD does not have this problem, instead, capturing all the quality into one frame store with less noise. Sony has used the Exmor R CMOS image sensor to deliver the 4K quality even in low light. This camera has a large diameter lens optimized for 4K shooting. It has wi-fi and NFC which allow quick delivery to tablets and smart phones. It is not only limited to 4K but can down convert in camera to playback super sampled HD quality not matched by conventional HD footage. This is one hand operated for ease of use. Further updates to this camera are to come out this Spring including faster wi-fi connections. To learn more about this camera.
4K cameras have already been used at the Worlds Series, ESPN, X-Games, Oblivion, After Earth, Smurf's 2, Evil Dead, and Remastered all 5 Seasons of Breaking Bad. New shows using 4K are Trophy Wife, The Micheal J. Fox Show, The Blacklist, and original 4K series on Hulu. To view this, viewers may want to purchase a 4KTV. Of course SONY offers its own line of XBR 4K Ultra HD TVs. Mike Fasulo went on to describe "SONY is the first and only manufacturer to provide m2m 4K live production infrastructure including camera, server, and projection system. What this means is bringing to the home a much more immersive experience than we see now." He went on to say that while broadcasters and production companies are successfully testing resolution that the distribution of 4K is happening right now, which from the above links is true. If the HDTVs are not to your liking, then try on a Headmounted Portable 3D Goggles HMZ-T3W, which is the same as looking at a 750 inch screen. Fasulo described the this as "a theatre on your head."
At half the size and weight of conventional DSLRs, Fasulo described the next generation is DSLRs from SONY, the a7 and a7r. "By using SONY lens adapters with a7 and a7r cameras, any other manufacturer's glass will continue to pay off" stated Fasulo. Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Smith (SONY artisan of Imagery) went to Haiti with the a7r to test with. And he described it as lightweight and just really easy to work with. The photos displayed which he took were extremely sharp in detail. Some images he took using this camera are now in the American Museum of Natural History. Before leaving, he game a tip to "look for light and don't be afraid to get in close."
Last was the a5000, the newest camera even smaller than the a7 or a7r. This retails at $600 and is the lightest APSC interchangable lens camera. Both wi-fi and NFC capable. This is a mirrorless camera with built in pop-up flash. It also has free and paid apps to expand capability.
With the m2m technology, all of these cameras can be controlled by cell phones to do time-lapse, lens-compensation, Smart Remote Control with both Android API and iOS API, multiple exposures, and bracketing. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about more and more content being provided by his company to provide more content for the hardware. El Fuente is one of the samples of 4K available to see on Netflix. This was a great press conference to learn more about 4K content and hardware. So, the hardware exists and now it is your turn to produce the content.


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I am writing about the special election being held January 19, 2010 in Massachusetts. I am not a resident of Massachusetts and have never been a resident of Massachusetts. Today, however, in this political climate, I am wishing that was not the case. I am wishing that I lived in Massachusetts and had the opportunity to go door-to-door for Scott Brown, who is running for the seat in the Senate vacated by the late Edward Kennedy.
He is a Republican. I am not. In fact, I am a registered Democrat. Moreover, I am a registered Democrat who vigorously campaigned for President Obama. I campaigned for him while he was running for the Senate. I put money toward his Presidential campaign that I didn't even have. I made phone calls, went to rallies. I did everything I could to help get him elected. After hearing that great speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention during John Kerry's 2004 campaign, I was hooked. I read his book. I have a plaque hanging on my wall with an invite to the Inauguration. I even get his Christmas cards. I really thought that if he were President of the United States things would be different. I just didn't understand what "different" meant because I believed the things he told us. I suppose when you want to believe something badly enough, you'll fall for anything.
He's broken his campaign promises, which is all too apparent with the healthcare bill. He has not brought back our troops; in fact he has committed more troops in Afghanistan. He was all about transparency; right up until he set foot inside the White House. I don't think our sitting President understands how angry the voters are and how much we hate the lies politicians tell us.
I am truly worried about where America is headed. I thought Bush was bad, but at least most Americans knew what to expect with him. It is like our country is being driven "kamikaze" style off a beautiful cliff of poetic sentences and eloquent rhetoric. The Democrats have lost their minds with their newly -found power. It is truly frightening to watch from the sidelines. While we have the 2010 November elections available to us to restore the balance , I feel it will be too late then. The majority of Americans do not want this healthcare bill. The majority of Americans do not want the irresponsible spending. The majority of Americans wanted change; but the change we wanted isn't the change we are getting.
Scott Brown represents the one, the only thing, right now that stands between one party doing whatever they want at the expense of every single person who pays taxes and the restoration of some measure of accountability in Congress. His vote in the Senate will restore a degree of accountability with the magic number being reduced to 59, thus erasing the runaway train that Congress is currently placing every single American on.
If Scott Brown is elected, he will be the only blockade America has at their disposal to keep Congress doing whatever they want. It is painfully obvious Congress could care less about the people who entrusted them to look after their interests by voting accordingly. That's how it is supposed to work in a Republic. But, they have their own agenda right now. If every single voter from every single county across America called each of their individual Representatives or Senators and took issue with their vote, I do not believe it would matter. Congress is not listening. The train has left the station without America on it. Scott Brown is the only force, at the present time, who can wake them from their self -induced narcissistic, ambition-driven state of hypnosis. If they continue, when they are through, inflation will be so bad we will be paying four bucks for a gallon of milk. People with Medicare will be dying because their benefits will have been cut to pay for unemployed Americans. And, by then, there will be a lot of unemployed Americans. They won't be able to eat, but if they slip and fall, they will be able to visit a doctor. The President will be circling around the country with his bid to reelection declaring how he was the President that got the job done which Clinton could never finish. He will wear that sign around his eyes, like a blindfold, unable to really see the damage he has done, because his ambition got the best of him. He forgot about the voters. He forgot about the promise he made to our great country.
Ultimately, the voters have the power. Scott Brown stands between this disaster in-the-making and a balance once again being restored to the Senate. We really need him now. He is the pinch-hitter for America in the fourth inning. And as far as the rest of the game goes ... no worries. America will take care of the score in November.
My wish is threefold: Elect Scott Brown, elect Scott Brown and please elect Scott Brown. He is why America is so great. Every once in awhile a single individual can change everything. And this is that moment.


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March 14, 2013
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UCLA head coach Ben Howland
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It was a great win. Really proud of our team. We beat a very good team today. When you look at our conference, the Pac-12 and you think that's the [ninth] seeded team in our league, I think that says a lot about our conference. I give Arizona State a ton of credit. They had us down. They had us down 15 with 16 minutes to go. But these guys never quit. They never gave up. They never stopped believing in themselves and each other, and really found a way to battle back.
"We came out great in the second half, cut it to three, and then they go back to 11. Then we battle back again after going down 15. So I'm really proud, because earlier in the season we had a couple of instances like that, and we didn't come back. And this team is very resilient. Has great leadership, and just really proud of their toughness. Again, I can't say enough about Arizona State. I thought Bachynski, he always gives us problems. He's given us problems in every single game since his freshman year. He wouldn't even play a lot as a freshman. I thought Jordan Adams did a fantastic job on Felix today. For Felix to only have seven points and four rebounds tells me that he was blocked out well and that he was defending well, because he is a great player that's going to make a lot of money. Carson is just fantastic. Can't say enough about him. I thought Larry Drew, I look at his line, 8 for 10 from the field, 4 for 4 from three, 20 points, four assists, only two turnovers. We only had six turnovers today, and they only had five. So that's a pretty well-played game when you're talking about two teams that have combined only had 11 turnovers. I was so happy that we won the battle of the boards today because that's been our Achilles heel. That's why, by the way, Larry's not here right now because he's icing his Achilles tendon, which is a little sore.
"I thought Travis did a great job. You could see Travis had missed two weeks with the exception of 32 minutes of game playing with the Arizona game and Washington State. He didn't do anything, contact, and so he obviously made a big shot. I thought Shabazz did a fantastic job taking the game over, especially scoring inside. I mean, we need to score inside, and he's our best player at going to the basket. And we made our foul shots, 15 for 17 is fantastic. And we had to play really, really well to beat a very good team and live for another day."
on Shabazz Muhammad playing with two fouls in the first half
"He had foul trouble in the first half too. We were kind of taking -- and I really rolled the dice to play him in the last minute in that last possession of the first half for him to get the rebound and put it back was a huge play for us."
on winning the rebound battle against Arizona State
"I thought we blocked out. I thought Travis, in particular, and David were excellent in that respect, because they're the ones that are kind of isolated inside. They're playing four guards out on the perimeter, and only one big inside. And Bachynski's going to make a lot of money playing basketball. He's done next year after his senior year. He's really a hard match-up. I did notice looking at the stats here, we had five guys in double figures. That always pleases me. When we have five guys in double figures, chances are we're going to win the game. So it was a really good balance today. Again, led by Larry. Larry was absolutely incredible today. He's playing really good basketball for us."
on UCLA's alternate uniforms worn on Thursday afternoon
"Our players love them. Shabazz was just talking about how nice they fit. They're so light. You know what, I'm 55, but I'm hip. I'm cool, you know? But we're going back to our UCLA traditional jersey tomorrow. I like some of the jersey changes. I was telling Shabazz and Travis out in the hall way before we came in here, the one we wear for the SC game, the blue one, I really like that. Adidas is unbelievably great to us. adidas is a great partner for UCLA. They're incredible supportive. They take care of all of our teams and do a fantastic job. So this is a marketing thing for them, and we're happy to help them in any way we can."
on playing either Colorado or Arizona on Friday in the semifinal round
"When you get to this time of year, there is no easy game. Colorado is fantastic. They're in their 20s in the RPI. Arizona is 13 in the RPI. They're both very good teams and we know we have our hands full. We're just really pleased to be playing another day and finding a way to come back and win that tough game over Arizona State. So we're excited about the opportunity. We know it's going to be a tough game either way. It's hard."
on the team's gritty, scrappy attitude and style of play
"It's very important. We're hoping to get a good situation in the next tournament. And you're playing -- we're playing right now like it's the NCAA Tournament. If you lose, you're done. We were on a flight home tonight if we lose this game, so you've got to have sense of urgency over possession. We made a few mental break downs where we left Gilling. I mean, Gilling played great. Gilling has five threes today. They were 6 for 17, and we were really fortunate. We had a three-point lead and left him to help on a drive, which is what Carson wanted, and he had a wide open three right in front of their bench that he missed. He had one wide open. I think his last two threes he missed, and they were both great looks. So we appreciate the good fortune and are very thankful."
UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad
on a strong second half
"Yeah, the first half, we had some good plays set for me, and I got some open looks. I mean, they didn't fall, but I was just trying to make sure I was rebounding the ball and playing hard. When you do that, you get good opportunities, and I started rebounding the ball and the ball started really coming to me in the second half."
on technical fouls called in the final seconds of the game
"Yeah, I mean, I just got a hard foul, and I don't know if he kicked the ball - I don't know what. Just tried to stay composed and knowing it's a tough loss for them. They were up the whole game. Like I said, we are getting ready for tomorrow, so that's one thing that we have to forget about."
on playing in his hometown of Las Vegas
"We're very fortunate [to get the win]. I just thought in the first half I thought we played hard, but in the second half we really turned it up, and it really had good karma for us. We just went down and really rebounded the ball. I think we outrebounded them, and then Travis had that big shot. We were just all really composed and that's what happens when you're composed and relaxed."
on dunking over a seven-foot player (Jordan Bachynski)
"Yeah, not this season, but in high school I think I've done it. Just knowing I got the break and I knew he was going to jump. So I just tried to get a good position on him and went up and got the dunk on him."


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I have mentioned Gioteck a few times recently. The company announced during E3 that it would be bringing some of its cool gaming gear to the US. One of the items is the HF-1 PS3 controller.
The HF-1 connects to the PS3 via Bluetooth and is arranged in a configuration like the Xbox 360 controllers. I prefer the PS3 layout myself. The entire controller is designed for comfort in the hands during long gaming sessions.
Other features include a Flipswitch that swaps R1 and R2 functionary putting the triggers closer to the top of the controller. The device also has a turbo button and will be in stores before Christmas.


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Mark your calendars for August 7, as it looks like LG is hosting an event in New York City. We don't know what the South Korean giant will be unveiling, but I'm expecting to see a new flagship smartphone featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 SoC.
What do you think we should expect? Maybe something more? A new Ultrabook? Tablet? Something completely different like a wearable tech product? I'd like to see some next-gen Optimus devices, and I expect LG to fulfil my dreams on August 7.


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40th Annual School of Law Dinner February 23, 2013 Beverly Hilton Hotel - Beverly Hills, CA Join the faculty, friends, students, and your fellow alumni at the School of Law's 40th annual dinner at which we will celebrate the history and heritage of the Pepperdine School of Law. Alumni Challenge: Gather your classmates and reunite at the dinner! For additional information andto register, please visit the website, or contact Morgan Thrower. Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Healing: Lessons from South Africa March 21, 2013 School of Law - Malibu, CA The chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Archbishop Tutu, has said that "there can be no future without forgiveness." The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution hosts a unique event that will highlight a conversation about the opportunities and challenges for those seeking to promote forgiveness and reconciliation for individuals and communities. For additional information andto register, please visit the website, or contact Tess Marme. The New Normal in College Sports: Realigned and Reckoning April 5, 2013 School of Law - Malibu, CA The Pepperdine Law Review's spring symposium will consist of four panel discussions focusing on emerging hot topics in college sports. This event has been approved for 6.75 Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credits. For additional information andto register, please visit the website, or contact Margaret Barfield.
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I am wondering if NERF guns teach young children (elementary school age) poor gun safety and desensitize them to shooting at human targets. I had no idea where to post this, but it is kind of a training thing.
Most people agree that children should be introduced to firearms in a controlled environment under the supervision of a competent adult. In this way children can learn how to safely handle guns and come to respect how dangerous a gun can be. NERF guns, on the other hand, are far less dangerous and do not require the same sort of safety lectures. Young kids may not fully understand the difference between NERF guns and firearms, and such a misunderstanding could lead to improper gun safety later in life. Also, children prone to mental illness might first be exposed to the idea of gun violence by NERF guns. NERF guns are very different from violent video games in that you are shooting at a real person. Maybe children should not be exposed to the concept of fighting with guns until they are old enough to paintball (maybe middle school age).
This question is not motivated by hoplophobia in ANY WAY. I grew up around guns, I hope to raise my kids around guns, and I hope my kids will raise my grandkids around guns. This is not a call for an assault Nerf-weapon ban (although that would make more sense than most of the proposed gun control bills). I am just wanted to hear if or how people approach Nerf guns while training young children.


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2010: Led the Huskies indoors at 400-meters and was second outdoors, as well as running on every one of UW's top relay teams indoors and out ... ran at her second-straight Pac-10 meet, taking 15th in the 400-meters in 57.51 seconds ... ran on both relays at Pac-10s, as the 4x4 took sixth in a season-best 3:46.35 and the 4x1 was eighth in 47.08 after clocking 46.26 in the prelims ... outdoor best of 56.84 came at the Pepsi Team Invite, where she placed fourth ... finished third at the UW-WSU dual meet in 56.96 seconds for the 400m ... ran a 200-meter PR of 25.22 at the Mondo Invitational, taking sixth ... indoors, posted a new PR at 400-meters with a 56.83 at the Husky Classic ... ran the 400m leg on UW's distance medley relay which was sixth at the MPSF Championships in 11:37.79, a time that ranks 10th in school history ... 19th at MPSFs in the 400, running 57.50.
2009: Competed at the Pac-10 Championships in her first year, running in the 400-meter prelims and placing 18th ... season-best 400m dash time came at the MPSF Championships, where she ran 57.07 to place 17th ... ran on 8th-place 4x400m relay at MPSFs, clocking 3:49.23, best of the year ... took third in the 400m at the UW-WSU dual, clocking 57.45 ... ran third leg on 4x1 relay which ran 47.50 at the Stanford Invite to place sixth.
High School and Personal: Born in Bremerton, Wash. ... parents are Lisa and Andrew Finley ... has a twin brother, Austin, and a younger brother, Zachary ... a seven-time Washington State Champion at the 2B level ... swept the 100m, 200m, and 400m at the state meet as a senior in 2008 ... won the state 400-meter sprint title all four years of her high school career ... also won the 200-meter title as a sophomore ... competed on multiple sprints relays at state, helping the team to three state titles ... named to the Tacoma News-Tribune All-Area Track Team and honored four times by the Tacoma Athletic Commission ... lettered four years in basketball and was All-League as a junior and senior ... also competed in volleyball and cross country.
Major Meets
2009 MPSF - 17th, 400m; 8th, 4x400m
2009 Pac-10 - 18th, 400m
2010 MPSF - 19th, 400m; 6th, DMR; 9th, 4x400m
2010 Pac-10 - 15th, 400m; 8th, 4x100m; 6th, 4x400m
Collegiate Bests
200m.......25.82i / 25.22
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Hurray for Botsford Hospital's winning team of emergency medicine residents! They brought home the Jeopardy Trophy from the Statewide Campus Competition in June.
The Statewide Campus System is affiliated with Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine. "They blew away the competition," says Dr. Jacklyn McParlane, who is their Program Director. Teams from nine emergency medicine programs at metro-Detroit area hospitals competed in this annual event. The traveling trophy resides at Botsford Hospital until next year's competition. Here's a dose of good luck for the team in next year's competition!
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Let $\mathscr{P} : \textbf{Set} \to \textbf{Set}^\textrm{op}$ be the (contravariant) powerset functor, taking a set $X$ to its powerset $\mathscr{P}(X)$ and a map $f : X \to Y$ to the inverse image map $f^* : \mathscr{P}(Y) \to \mathscr{P}(X)$. By elementary abstract nonsense, we know that $\mathscr{P}$ has a right adjoint $\mathscr{P}^\textrm{op}$: indeed,
$$\textrm{Hom}(X, \mathscr{P}(Y)) \cong \textrm{Hom}(X \times Y, \Omega) \cong \textrm{Hom} (Y \times X, \Omega) \cong \textrm{Hom}(Y, \mathscr{P}^\textrm{op} (X)) $$
where $\Omega$ is the subobject classifier $\{ 0, 1 \}$ for $\textbf{Set}$. Let us write $\mathscr{T}$ for the composite $\mathscr{P}^\textrm{op} \mathscr{P}$; then we have a monad $(\mathscr{T}, \eta, \mu)$ on $\textbf{Set}$.
By advanced abstract nonsense (Paré's theorem or Mikkelsen's theorem) it can be shown that $\mathscr{P}$ is monadic, i.e. that the canonical comparison functor $\textbf{Set}^\textrm{op} \to \mathscr{T}\textbf{-Alg}$ is an equivalence of categories; but $\textbf{Set}^\textrm{op}$ is known to be equivalent to the category of complete atomic boolean algebras, so this therefore implies that a $\mathscr{T}$-algebra is the same thing as a complete atomic boolean algebra.
Question. How does one show this directly?
It is straightforward to check that $$\eta_X (x) = \{ S \subseteq X : x \in S \} = \mathord{\uparrow} (\{ x \})$$ and the multiplication map is $$\mu_X (V) = \bigcup_{U \in V} \{ S \subseteq X : \eta_{\mathscr{P} (X)}(S) = U \}$$ but I am having a lot of trouble getting any intuition for what $\mu_X$ does beyond how it is constructed: it recovers the set of all $S$ such that the principal filter $\mathord{\uparrow} (\{ S \})$ is a member of $V$. If $V$ itself is upwards-closed, then we have the formula $$\mu_X (V) = \bigcup_{U \in V} \bigcap_{T \in U} T$$ since for all $U \in V$, if $S \in T$ for all $T \in U$, we have $U \subseteq \mathord{\uparrow}(\{ S \})$, i.e. $$U \subseteq \bigcap \left\{ \mathord{\uparrow}(\{ S \}) : S \in \bigcap U \right\}$$ Thus, for $U \subseteq \mathscr{T}(X)$, $$\mu_X ( \mathord{\uparrow}(U) ) = \bigcap_{T \in U} T$$ and as a special case we obtain the left unit law $$\mu_X ( \eta_{\mathscr{T}(X)} (T) ) = T$$ This means that we can recover the meet operation of $\mathscr{T}(X)$ from $\mu_X$, regarded as the free complete atomic boolean algebra on $X$. We can also recover the join operation: $$\bigcup_{T \in U} T = \mu_X \left( \bigcup \left\{ \mathord{\uparrow} (\{ T \}) : T \in U \right\} \right)$$ (The use of $\bigcup$ in the RHS is legitimate since the join operation of $\mathscr{T}(\mathscr{T}(X))$ independent of the join operation of $\mathscr{T}(X)$.)
Now, I know that any complete lattice $A$ admits a canonical pseudocomplement operation $$\lnot a = \bigvee \{ a' \in A : a \wedge a' = \bot \} $$ but I have no idea how the properties of $\mu_X$ imply the 'meet' and 'join' operations we get satisfy the requirements for a (complete) boolean algebra, nor do I see where atomicity might be coming from.


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STANFORD, Calif. – The Stanford wrestling team crowned four individual champions, the most in school history, on its way to a second-place finish (134.0 points) at the 2014 Pac-12 Wrestling Championships, Sunday, at Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif. Five Cardinal wrestlers earned automatic berths to the NCAA Championships, tying for the most in school history.Senior 197 pounder Dan Scherer knocked-off ninth-ranked Taylor Meeks of Oregon State in the finals, 4-2 in sudden victory, and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler. It is the first conference championship for the St. Louis, Mo., native, who is 20-4 on the year.
"With it tied up going into overtime, I felt I was dictating the match the whole time," said Scherer. "I could feel him breaking down and getting tired towards the end there. Meeks is really good with his hips, so you've got to pick your shots and get in clean when you can."
Redshirt senior Ryan Mango, ranked No. 9 at 133 pounds, became Stanford's fifth two-time conference champion, defeating 17th-ranked Devon Lotito of Cal Poly 5-2. A two-time All-American, Mango also won a Pac-12 Championship at 125 pounds in 2012 as he moves to 27-3 on the year. He joins Jeff Bradley (1985, 1986), Dave Lee (1985, 1986), Tanner Gardner (2007, 2008) and Nick Amuchastegui (2010, 2012) as repeat champions.
Sophomore Evan Silver became Stanford's 16th conference champion with an 8-6 decision over Rami Haddidian of Boise State at 125 pounds. The Chevy Chase, Md., native, who finished as the Pac-12 runner-up as a redshirt freshman in 2013, improves to 23-4 on the season.
Redshirt freshman Jim Wilson secured the 165-pound title with a convincing 5-1 decision over Arizona State's Nick Rex, becoming Stanford's 17th conference champion. Wilson becomes the first Cardinal freshman to win a conference championship since Jimmy Aguirre in 1993. Wilson registered a major decision over Cal Poly's Travis Berridge in the first round and a 12-4 major decision against Oregon State's Toney Chay in the semifinals to move to 33-6 on the year. His 33 wins are the third-most by a freshman in school history.
"It is just an absolute thrill to win a championship," said Wilson. "Thinking about all the work that we put in during the season, running at 5:30 in the morning, all of our training, and all of our drilling. In the end it paid off."
Senior Kyle Meyer finished third at 174 pounds, and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. Meyer defeated Boise State's Austin Dewey, 9-4, in the third-place bout. He is having his most successful season with the Cardinal, moving to 26-11 overall.
Redshirt freshman heavyweight Josh Marchok also finished in the top half of his bracket. The Schaumburg, Ill., native pinned Cal Poly's Spencer Empey in 1:30 to place third in the conference. It marked his fifth fall of the season.
Oregon State won the team title with 155.5 points, crowning three champions while three other Beavers finished as the runner-ups. Stanford's second-place finish is the highest under sixth-year head coach Jason Borrelli, and ties for the best in school history. It is just the third time the Cardinal has finished as the runner-up and the first since 2008.
Mango has now qualified for the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in his career. Scherer and Silver are both two-time NCAA qualifiers, while Meyer and Wilson will make their first appearances.
Stanford will head to the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla., March 20-22 to close out its 2013-14 season.
Stanford's Tournament Results:
125 pounds
#12 Evan Silver (3-0, 1st): dec. Pat Rollins (OSU), 7-3; dec. Ares Carpio (ASU), 10-7; dec. Rami Haddidian (BSU), 8-6.
133 pounds
#9 Ryan Mango (2-0, 1st): dec. Joey Palmer (OSU), 6-5; dec. #17 Devon Lotito (CP), 5-2.
141 pounds
Matt Garelli (1-2, 5th): lost to Joey Delgado (OSU), 7-2; lost to Brian Owen (BSU), 8-3; dec. Jacob Leon (CP), 7-1.
149 pounds
Donovan Halpin (1-2, 4th): lost to #12 Scott Sakaguchi (OSU), 10-1; dec. Dalton Kelley (CSUB), 5-4; lost to Preston McCalmon (ASU), 3-1 (SV).
157 pounds
Peter Galli (1-2, 5th): lost to Steven Hernandez (BSU), F2:03; lost to Spencer Hill (CSUB), 6-5; dec. Xavier Johnson (CP), 4-0.
165 pounds
#18 Jim Wilson (3-0; 1st): maj. dec. Travis Berridge (CP), 17-4; maj. dec. Toney Chay (OSU), 12-4; dec. Nick Rex (ASU), 5-1.
174 pounds
Kyle Meyer (2-1, 3rd): lost to Bryce Hammond (CSUB), 7-2; dec. Ray Waters (ASU), 8-3; dec. Austin Dewey (BSU), 9-4.
184 pounds
Zach Nevills (2-1, 4th): fall Kent Beecham (CP), 5:40; inj. def. to Blake Stauffer (ASU); dec. Sean Pollock (CSUB), 9-5; lost to Austin Morehead (OSU), 8-0.
197 pounds
#18 Dan Scherer (2-0, 1st): dec. Cody Dixon (BSU), 7-1; dec. #9 Taylor Meeks (OSU), 4-2 (SV).
285 pounds
Josh Marchok (3-1, 3rd): dec. Sammy Cervantes (CSUB), 3-1; lost to #9 J.T. Felix (BSU), fall 1:26; dec. Chace Eskam (ASU), 3-2; fall Spencer Empey (CP), 1:30.


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Perodicticus potto
|Scientific Name:
|Perodicticus potto
|Species Authority:
|(Müller, 1766)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Pseudopotto martini Schwartz, 1996
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Grubb et al. (2003) recognized three subspecies; P. p. potto, P. p. edwardsi and P. p. ibeanus. Several of these subspecies may actually deserve recognition as distinct species, but they are retained here as subspecies following Grubb et al. (2003) and Pimley and Bearder (in press). Butynski and De Jong (2007) described a fourth subspecies, P. p. stockleyi, from Mt Kenya.
There has been some debate surrounding the taxonomic status of Pseudopotto martini, described by Schwartz (1996), with Groves (1998) calling attention to its distinctive features, and Sarmiento (1998) suggesting that these supposed diagnostic characters lie within the range of variation of Perodicticus potto or arose as a result of captivity. Grubb et al. (2003) note that although this is a name validly assigned to museum specimens, there are only two such specimens, and their exact locality of origin is not recorded. The latter authors were of the opinion that there was insufficient evidence that this name refers to a real, distinct population, and recommended that the name not be included in the taxonomy of African primates. Accordingly, Pseudopotto martini is here treated as a synonym of P. potto.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Oates, J.F., Butynski, T.M., Kingdon, J., Bearder, S., Pimley, E. & De Jong, Y.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Listed as Least Concern as this species is widespread and common. It may be declining in some areas, but there is no evidence of a significant range-wide population decline that would warrant listing in a higher category of threat.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species has a wide range from about Sierra Leone and south-eastern Guinea to south-western Kenya, at elevations of 600 to 2,300 m asl, with an isolated population east of the rift valley (Butynski and De Jong 2007; Pimley and Bearder in press). Surprisingly, there are no records at all for Tanzania (see Butynski and De Jong 2007).
There are four subspecies: the nominate P. p. potto (here taken to include the form "juju") is found in West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Niger River in Nigeria (there are no confirmed records for Senegal, Gambia or Guinea-Bissau); P. p. edwardsi is found from the Niger River in Nigeria east through Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (not found on Bioko), Congo, and then south of the Congo River through Democratic Republic of Congo as far east as Irneti and as far south as Angola; P. p. ibeanus occurs from east and south of the Ubangi River, and north and east of Congo River, DR Congo, eastwards extending east of the Lualaba River to north-west Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to the Kakamega and Nandi forests and surrounds in south-western Kenya (see Butynski and de Jong 2007); and P. p stockleyi is known only from the type locality, Mount Kenya, at 1830 m, and is isolated from the nearest P. p. ibeanus population by at least 170 km (Butynski and de Jong 2007). A Potto obtained by Peirce (1975) at Muguga (2100 m) on the southern slopes of the Aberdares Range may well represent the latter subspecies.
Pseudopotto martini, originally described as a new genus but here included in the synonymy of P. potto, is currently known only from one skeleton (which came from a specimen that died at Zurich Zoo) and two skulls, as well as some undocumented sightings, around Mount Kupe, Cameroon, at 820-940 m altitude. However, this animal was never observed once on Mt Kupe during the course of two years of field work (E. Pimley pers. comm.), and only P. potto (some with long tails) were recorded.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola (Angola); Benin; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea; Kenya; Liberia; Nigeria; Rwanda; Sierra Leone; Togo; Uganda
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|Pottos are widespread and common. Density averages 8 – 10 animals/km² at Makokou, in north-east Gabon (Charles-Dominique 1977) and 4.7 animals/km² in mixed secondary forest and farm bush on Mt. Kupe, Cameroon (Pimley 2002). Butynski and De jong (2007) summarize encounter rates and densities for P. p. ibeanus, noting that densities range between <2 and 28 individuals/km².
The recently described P. p. stockleyi is known only from a single specimen collected in 1938.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species inhabits all strata of lowland and montane tropical moist forest, swamp forest, and other lowland forest types. It is commonest in secondary and colonising forests, and along the margins of these forests. Its diet shows distinct seasonal variation: gums are dominant during drier periods, with insects, snails, and fruits (such as figs, Musanga, Parinari, Uapaca, and Myrianthus) taken during the rains. Pottos are solitary animals, but do display some degree of sociality (Pimley et al. 2005; AMJP). Charles-Dominique (1977) recorded females ranging over 3-9 ha, and males over 9-40 ha with their ranges overlapping that of one or more females; however, Pimley et al. (2005; IJP) found no significant difference in the range area of pottos between males (mean = 30.6 ha ± 2.97) and females (mean = 31.5 ha ± 7.25). The females give birth to one young annually. Wild pottos in Gabon lived to at least nine years of age (Charles-Dominique 1977).
|Major Threat(s):
|Pottos are known to be widespread in secondary and primary forests, and even in disturbed forest near human habitation. There are probably no major threats resulting in a range-wide population decline, but localized declines are likely taking place due to habitat loss from clear-cutting and intensive agriculture, and from hunting.
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed on Appendix II of CITES and on Class B of the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. This species is present in many protected areas throughout its range.
It seems that the 'Mount Kenya Potto' P. p. stockleyi either occurs at low densities or is highly local in its distribution, or (probably) both. There is also, of course, the possibility that this taxon is extinct. Determining the geographic range, abundance, and conservation status of this subspecies is a priority for primate conservation action in Kenya (see Butynski and De Jong 2007).
|Oates, J.F., Butynski, T.M., Kingdon, J., Bearder, S., Pimley, E. & De Jong, Y. 2008. Perodicticus potto. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T16629A6195697. . Downloaded on 27 June 2016.
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This season the series has ranked as the highest-rated non-sports program in the major key demographics. It is currently the #1 comedy on television and the most watched. Averaging 19.79 million viewers this season, it is no wonder the network agreed to a three-year for the series.
Nina Tassler, Chairmen for CBS Entertainment said, "This multi-year deal further strengthens our network's position for future seasons and marks another chapter in the great partnership CBS enjoys with Warner Bros. Television for delivering audiences the best in comedy."
It is safe to say that the next three seasons should fare well for stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch. According to Variety, contract negotiations are in the works for Parsons, Galecki, Cuoco-Sweeting and others. Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady created and executive produce the series with Steve Molaro.
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Galax police searched for several hours on Tuesday for a man who ran when officers tried to serve a warrant.
According to a police report, Jason Henry Brown, 37, of Galax was spotted by Sgt. Mark Burnett the morning of May 10. Burnett knew that Brown was wanted by the Carroll County Sheriff's Department for violating his probation. When approached, police said Brown fled on foot.
ROANOKE – A Galax man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal drug trafficking charges.
In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke on May 10, Sylvester Monroe Jackson, 42, of Galax, entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
FRIES — The Fries Town Council met on May 3 after the town's General Election, for a short meeting to discuss several project updates and remind the public about upcoming events.
Council will hold a public hearing May 17 at 6:30 p.m. concerning the town's 2016-17 budget. The final meeting on the budget will be held June 7.
Large item curbside pickup for the Town of Fries is scheduled for June 17. Council informed the public to contact Grayson County Public Works to schedule any pickups, or to find out more about what items will be accepted.
Editor's Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
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HILLSVILLE – To balance the budget, Carroll County officials recommend a tax increase for both real estate and personal property.
Interim County Administrator Nikki Cannon presented the proposed fiscal year 2017 budget to the board of supervisors at Monday's regular monthly meeting, which outlined the proposed increases and a total budget amount of $41.15 million.
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According to a report released by the Galax Police Department, arrests last week included the following:
• Justin Blaine Amburn, 33, of Galax, was arrested by Officer Trevor Jefferson on May 4 at 2:24 a.m. for felony possession of Schedule I or II drugs, two counts misdemeanor contempt of court and four counts misdemeanor revocation of suspended sentence and probation.
While one vacant downtown Galax bank building – the old Carter Bank & Trust – has been pulled down, the former Wachovia bank building at 200 N. Main Street has been purchased by LB Capital Management.
The application by Grayson National Bank and Bank of Floyd to combine into a single holding company has been approved by federal and state regulators.
The combination was approved by the Virginia Bureau of Financial Institutions, the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Cardinal Bankshares Corp., the parent company of Bank of Floyd, and Grayson Bankshares Inc. announced the approval on Monday.
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During the fest, I heard buzz from both sides: this year exceeded expectations; this year fell short of the recent past.
No festival-goer can deny, Sundance '11 was full of drama, protest, cold temps and fun.
This year, I had only one truly painful movie-going experience (Vampire). Everything else was either good or great. More of the prior, mind you - but at the very least, it was all entertaining.
Below, my top 10 picks of the fest. Let me know your favorites in the comments:
10. Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure
In the late-'80s two punk kids, Mitchell D and Eddie Lee Sausage, move from Minnesota to San Francisco. Once in their tiny Lower Height apartment, they notice the old/drunk neighbors argue all the time. The young punks start recording every fight and create the phenomenon of Peter and Ray. These found recordings were passed around the West Coast, eventually reaching cult status. The drunken rants inspired plays, books, CDs ...and this film.
9. Win Win
Tom McCarthy returns to Sundance with his funniest film yet. Set in the suburbs, Paul Giamatti is struggling attorney Mike Flaherty who finds himself offering help to one of his clients and getting more than expected. On the side, Mike is the high school wrestling coach. Alex Schaffer plays his star athlete and come-lately roommate. McCarthy is terrific at writing for an ensemble and this film is no exception.
8. The Guard
A hilarious dark comedy set against the drab backdrop of an Irish town. Brendan Gleeson plays the smart but morally flexible and lazy Sergeant Gerry Boyle paired with Don Cheadle, a straight-laced FBI agent tailing a drug-trafficking ring. This buddy cop film is packed with thick accents and clever laughs.
7. My Idiot Brother
Paul Rudd shines as Ned, a hippie/stoner just trying to get by. Never catching a break, Ned tracks down his three sisters seeking help and refuge. Ned's honesty and naivete brings out the worst in his siblings. Taking a break from high-concept comedies, this is one of Rudd's more well-crafted performances. The hilarious ensemble cast of Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks and Steve Coogan aptly back him up.
6. Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin was brought up through the Sundance Institute and his feature debut as writer/director left me with an eerie feeling and wanting more from this intriguing newcomer. Following young Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), who just escaped from a violent cult, we get a beautifully transitioned mix of her two lives. Durkin does a brilliant job keeping the cult a mystery while creating a compelling atmosphere for Martha's new life on the outside. Picked up by Fox Searchlight, we should see this one in wide release during the summer/fall.
5. In A Better World
Susanne Bier's latest endeavor breaks down family life. Individuals are forced to choose love, face bullies and endure the loss of a loved one. Bier creates a story of holding to your values in times struggle regardless the consequence. Recently winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Picture and nominated last week for an Oscar, this is a must-watch.
4. Circumstance
Set in a modern-day Iran, we get a truly beautiful character piece. Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), whose parents were likely executed, are teenage girls testing the boundaries of their friendship as well as their attraction for one another. Add in the scorn of a brutal/repressed society and you've got a wonderful debut from writer/director Maryam Keshavarz. Circumstance also won the US Dramatic Audience Award.
3. I Saw The Devil
Korean director Kim-Jee Woon brings a tale of revenge to new heights as this cat-and-mouse chase of bad-versus-horrible has brutal outcomes. With a vibrant backdrop, ramped-up intensity and outstanding performances by both male leads, I Saw The Devil delivers ...as long as you can handle the graphic violence.
2. Life In A Day
The makers of this documentary collected (via YouTube) footage from people all over the world living life on July 24, 2010. Edited masterfully and hitting every range of emotion, this film redefines collaborative art.
1. Tyrannosaur
Very few first-time directors would have the balls to showcase domestic violence with such brutal honesty. The film kicked me in the stomach in the first scene and never lets up. Brilliant performances made Tyrannosaur my top pick.
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Your son was obligated to safeguard the property by keeping the heat going, etc. If he knew the place would be without heat during his tenancy, he should have ensured that the pipes were bled. Even if he told the landlord he was leaving mid-December, unless he got something acknowledging that in writing or can prove it, he's in trouble.
You can count on a landlord not settling for a fraction of damages owed if indeed he had paid someone $3,000 to fix (and a judge would find a bill from a friend suspect). If I were your son, I'd document the $795 offer in a letter to the landlord summarizing the conversation about it.
You don't provide any details to indicate why you think your son isn't responsible for damage due to the heat being turned off during his tenancy's term.
I'll echo PG's advisory "warning" with a twist: (Many) legal issues are complicated. Explanations and comments here might not fully identify or explain the ramifications of your particular problem. I do not give legal advice as such (and such is impermissible here at any rate). Comments are based on personal knowledge and experience and legal info gleaned over a quarter century, and every state has differing laws on and avenues to address most topics. If you need legal advice, you need to consult (and pay) a professional so that you may have someone to hold accountable. Acting on personal and informational advice from a stranger on the internet is a bad idea -- at least not without your own thorough due dilience/research and confirmation as it applies to your situation.
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'Faith' is an exciting new Research and Development project which will begin in May. Its will aim to develop innovative trusted digital services that will enable citizens, local authorities and local contractors to have faith in each other and the processes and systems they each use to manage the UKs transport infrastructure.
The current management of this process is unclear, costly and results in a lack of trust between the public and their council as well as between the council and their contractors. For Example, if a member of the public reports a road defect, they often receive no progress update as to its maintenance or completion. With the vast number of defects reported and often long periods between the report being made and the defect fixed , this can often leave the public feeling as though their report was a waste of time.
Within most councils, the current inspection process requires any defect to be inspected both before it is fixed and after. This is time consuming and costly and would not be required if they trusted the information they were being given.
The FAITH project aims to develop a digital system which captures and feeds back all required data in order to reduce the cost associated with inspections and also to ensure that anyone who has to communicate with the councils and their contractors receives accurate and up to date information which can be trusted.
FAITH is a collaborative research and development programme between Lancaster University, In Touch Ltd and Carillion PLC, part funded by the Technology Strategy Board.


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Comet Lovejoy Survives A Close Encounter with the Sun
Comet Lovejoy startled scientists by surviving its sun-grazing cruise around the Sun and back into space on Dec. 15-16, 2011. This was the brightest sun-grazing comet ever observed by NASA spacecraft STEREO or SOHO.
This pair of still images taken by STEREO shows the comet and its extensive tail as it approaches the Sun, and then again as it is heading out into space with a much smaller tail. Note that the tail of the comet pointed away from the Sun, no matter which way it was headed, due to pressure from the solar wind.
Comet Lovejoy's survivability might be partly explained by the size of its core, an estimated 2 football fields wide, about 10 times larger than other Kreutz comets, the family of comets to which it belonged. It flew roughly 100,000 km above the surface of the Sun where temperatures are around 1 million degrees.
Image Number: WEB13416-2013
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Stop & Shop customers in New England and the New York Metro area helped the retailer give back more than $22 million in 2011 into the hundreds of communities in which they operate.
Target announced that this fall it is investing more than $50 million in education.
A slew of retailers are scheduled to report second-quarter earnings in the coming weeks and among the more highly anticipated reports are results from Walmart and Target.
Back-to-school budgets will moderately decrease this year, but more consumers will turn to the Internet to score the best deals.
Some companies were more aggressive with promotions last months and others were less so, but Target held steady producing the same number of circular ad pages (109) in May 2011, and it did the same month the prior year, according to data collected by the Chicago based firm Market Track.
Although Targets' new e-commerce platform isn't expected to relaunch for a few more months, it is worth acknowledging that the massive undertaking is on time and under budget.
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Mark Sanchez doesn't care. In a comment to ESPNNewYork.com, Sanchez made it clear that he is prepared for a heated competition and he's ready to beat out Smith for the quarterback job.
"When it's a straight-up competition for the job, let's roll," Sanchez told ESPNNewYork.com. "It really doesn't bother me at all. It really doesn't affect my confidence or anything like that. We're competing for something. All right, I'm going to win. That's just how I am."
Sanchez has been a punchline for the last couple years for his struggles, but this line of thinking should get respect from anyone who has competed.
Of course Sanchez doesn't want to give over his job, and there's nothing wrong with him vocalizing that. It would be way, way more concerning if he didn't have that attitude.
The question is if he can hold off Smith. Sanchez's issues have been well documented, but the ESPN report says it was clear Sanchez outplayed him in offseason practices. That shouldn't be too surprising considering Smith is a rookie (and one that has his own negative publicity this offseason).
If Sanchez has a terrible training camp or has the same issues with turnovers early in the season that have troubled him through his career, the Jets might decide that they might as well let Smith learn on the job. Smith had moments at West Virginia where he looked the part of a franchise quarterback.
Smith will need to be pretty good at training camp if he wants to unseat Sanchez by the season opener, because Sanchez isn't ready to step aside.
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Park City Fire District Captain Dave Marsella knows firsthand about the risks facing wildland firefighters. He has been battling major fires around the West for more than a dozen years and has helped the Park City Fire District develop a specialized wildland fire team.
His interest was sparked while working part-time on a hand crew that was certified to fight fires around the country. In 2003, that team was eventually sent to the frontlines of the gigantic Old Fire in California. Marsella remembers being astounded by the magnitude of the response.
"On that fire 100,000 acres were consumed, 1,000 structures were lost and six firefighters died." Altogether, more than 2,000 firefighters and 300 engines from around the country were deployed, he said.
But along with mourning the loss of life and property, Marsella got a taste of success when the fire was finally contained. "There is a thrill in finally winning," he said.
Marsella worked as a professional firefighter in Utah County and then moved with his family to Park City. He continued volunteering for nationally-certified wildland fire crews whenever possible. Over the years, Marsella says he has fought fires in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and California.
In 2010, Marsella began to explore the possibility of creating a certified team made up of Park City firefighters. With the increasing number of subdivisions impinging on the area's forested borders, Marsella recognized a need for additional wildland fire training.
"My main emphasis was to get people more experience with really big incidents," he said.
The groundwork involved purchasing equipment and getting staff certified. The process was completed 18 months ago and, since then, Park City has been eligible to send firefighters wherever they are needed. A crew just returned from the West Fork fire in Colorado.
According to Marsella, Park City firefighters volunteer for the extra duty which requires additional training and certification. They must be willing to ship out within two hours of receiving a call. Typically, he explained, the PCFD will send an engine boss, two firefighters and the department's four-wheel drive engine which is equipped with a 500-gallon water tank. "It can pump and roll and moves quickly."
Last year, Park City's wildland fire crew was called out seven times, with firefighters leaving home for as long as two weeks at a time, he said.
Marsella said he was shocked last weekend when he heard about the Arizona tragedy that claimed the lives of 19 wildland firefighters. "To lose an entire crew, things must have gone so horribly wrong "
The loss strikes particularly close to home, he said, because Prescott, Arizona's fire department is about the same size as Park City's. "They lost 20 percent of their fire department in one hour."
But the most recent fire fatalities won't deter Marsella from answering the next call to action.
"Anytime there is an incident like this, you have to reflect," says the father of three. "I have been in a few situations that got a little hairy. You just have to be more wary."
The science of firefighting continues to improve and investigators will apply what they learn from the Arizona fire to ensure it won't happen again.
The Park City Fire District has a link on its site for those who want to contribute to the families of the firefighters who lost their lives last week in Arizona: http://www.pcfd.org/2013/07/help-the-families-of-the-granite-mountain-hotshots/


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Chuck Bernstein: Delta Berimbau Blues
Delta Berimbau Blues
Chuck Bernstein (gunga berimbau)
Delta Berimbau Blues (CMB Records 102844)
Chuck Bernstein (gunga berimbau), Greg Douglass (guitar).
Composed by Chuck Bernstein & Greg Douglass.
Recorded: January 15, 2008
Rating: 92/100 (learn more)
The malleability of the Delta blues tradition has been demonstrated all over the world, from Liverpool to Calcutta. Here Chuck Bernstein adopts the Brazilian berimbau, the one-stringed bow from Bahia, for his cross-cultural explorations. As Shelly Manne once said, the berimbau "is good for many uses: you can hunt with it or smoke it." Well I am not sure about the wisdom of lighting up your berimbau, but clearly you can also play blues on it. Think of it as a South American alternative to the diddley bow, that African-inspired one-string instrument that was the starting point for many Delta blues masters of the past. Bernstein makes the most of his inspired vision of berimbau blues. He claims that he first heard the instrument on a Sergio Mendes record, but anyone listening to this track would think that these guys grew up in some juke joint outside of Clarksdale. Due credit must be given to Bernstein's partner, Greg Douglass, whose outstanding guitar work is responsible for most of the bent thirds on this track. This self-produced CD could easily get lost in the shuffle, but it is a contender for my list of best blues recordings of the year.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
Tags: blues · brazil · world fusion
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First, fire Secretary of State Chuck Hagel. He is a wobbler that America doesn't need at the top of the Department of Defense. The President said that he wants the Islamic State degraded and destroyed. He didn't say maybe. The trouble with this presidency is that it is too tentative and deliberate, and too full of fits and starts that enable enemies to take advantage.
Hagel's response was "degrade, destroy, but no guarantee;" you're fired.
Embarking on battle in the Middle East once again requires comprehensive foreign policy that engages the free world collective to the fullest extent. Take no wobblers, and that applies to allies too. We need friends and no frenemies.
To engage the Middle East effectively requires that Saudi Arabia and Jordan get with the program along with Turkey and Egypt too. It is time to get off the fence. Governments in the Middle East need to embrace free world values for democracy and freedom. They will need assistance doing that because it will require fundamental cultural change and transformation. That requires an unprecedented partnership with the free world. Buck up.
For there to be a success in the Middle East, the huge problem of reconciling pluralism among disparate sects including Islam, Christianity, and Judaism among all others is on the table. In fact, the challenge is to present and embrace a model for governance that ensures equality for all people regardless of beliefs and gender. That will require significant upgrade of religions and governments in order to meet the standard for 21st century pluralism.
The carrot in the equation is sustainable economies. Everywhere, people need and want self-determination and self-sustainment. They want a healthy degree of opportunity that will permit them to maximize yield from their capabilities. They need and want upward mobility.
When the free world collective embraces the necessity to transform the world into sustainable economies, it will open opportunity for invention and innovation the likes the world has not seen at such scope and scale before. It is essential to reverse the trend toward collapsing economies that are based on unsustainable capitalism as we know it.
No fear, the future can be brighter for everyone.
One thing that must happen at once in the Obama administration, and that is that the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense need to be on the exact same page at all times. There needs to be complete integration of policy and strategy. It should not appear as a product of overnight afterthoughts. It must be engineered from sound leadership from the President acting in full collaboration with Congress and without excuses.


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Middle blocker who drew playing time in 25 matches and made 16 starts after transferring from BYU-Hawaii • Tallied 47 kills, 17 digs and ranked third on the squad with 48 total blocks • Registered 13 solo blocks, second-most on the team • Made her MSU debut collecting five kills and a pair of blocks in a starting role in State's season-opening 3-1 win over Arkansas-Little Rock (8/27) in the Maroon Classic • Turned in a season-best six-kill, two-block performance two weeks later against South Florida (9/11) • Played in 17 of MSU's 20 Southeastern Conference matches, 10 as a starter • Fashioned four-kill performances in league play against South Carolina (10/8), at South Carolina (11/13) and in MSU's season finale at Alabama (11/24) • Paced MSU at the net in blocking in three matches, including a season-best seven-block display at Georgia (10/3) in her initial SEC start and six blocks (3 solos/3 assisted blocks) in a home win over Alabama (10/20) • Also tallied six total blocks at home against South Carolina (11/13).
Played in 32 matches the past two seasons at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in Laie, Hawaii • Coached at BYU-Hawaii by Wilfred Navalta • Drew 19 starts in 2009, registering a career-best 135 kills, 71 digs and blocks digs as a sophomore • Posted a .264 attack percentage, second-best for the BYU-Hawaii Seasiders • Registered 13 kills, three digs and seven blocks in a late-season match at Chaminade University • Tallied 18 kills, eight digs and four blocks in 10 matches played as a freshman in 2008.
Four-year volleyball standout at Elk Point-Jefferson High School in Elk Point, S.D.• Also a four-year starter in basketball and a five-year letter-winner in track • Two-time state high jump champion in track.
Born Hannah Mariah Wilkinson on February 7, 1990 in Misawa, Japan • Daughter of Danielle and Clifford Wilkinson of Elk Point, S.D. • Majoring in educational psychology.


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The nightmare for the family of Erin Corwin began on June 28 of this year when then 19-year-old Erin Corwin told her husband and family she was going for a hike in Joshua Tree National Park, and had not been seen since. Sadly, the mystery of her whereabouts has been solved with a tragic ending, due to the diligence and steadfastness of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office and FBI, who did not stop working to find answers for a family that has been in a living horror ever since her disappearance. CBS News reported Aug. 18 that the body of missing horse whisperer Erin Corwin was found this weekend, and one arrest has been made.
Erin Corwin was a sweet 19-year-old girl on the day of her disappearance. She told her husband Marine Jonathan Corwin she ws going for a hike, and that was the last time anyone in her immediate circle would hear from her again, with a few exceptions. Today CBS is reporting that the last person that allegedly saw her alive, Christopher Lee, has been arrested and charged with her death on suspicion of homicide.
Sheila Braden, mother of Erin's husband told People Magazine about the night her husband Jonathan Corwin began to get worried about his lovely wife.
"Jon kept trying to call her, and figured there was no cell service at the park. By the evening, he started to get worried and started calling around."
Later, officials would find Erin's blue Toyota Corolla approximately two miles from Twenty-Nine Palms, the military base in San Bernardino, California, where the couple lived. Also living on this base, and next door to the Corwins, was a couple with the last name Lee. A relationship between Erin and Christopher allegedly began at some point during their residency on base, and this relationship would end in a tragedy.
Some rumors have alleged that Erin was pregnant with Christopher's child at the time of her death, though this has not yet been confirmed by officials. Even if this was the case, death is not the way to resolve such situations in one's life. Erin Corwin deserved to live as full a life as possible, with the children that she so dreamed about, as much as any other American.
Instead, at least one person and possibly more, made a choice for how her future would play out, with a tragic ending that has torn a family to shreds.
Erin's future ended in a 140-foot mine shaft just outside the borders of Joshua Tree National Park according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office. The manner in which she passed has not yet been disclosed pending autopsy results, but authorities have stated that dental records were required to identify her remains.
Captain Dale Mondary of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office stated that the number one goal in this investigation was to find answers for a family that has been living a horrific summer.
"We were determined to find Erin Corwin and return her remains to her family."
It was Saturday night, Aug. 16 when officals came upon a grisly discovery just outside Joshua Tree National Park. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, with help from the FBI, located her approximately 140 feet down a mine shaft. The quality of air and the depth of the shaft made recovery of Erin difficult, but by 6:30 P.M. on Aug. 17 her body was retrieved.
CBS News reports that neighbor Christopher Lee was arrested on Sunday Aug. 17 at approximately 9 or 10 P.M.
The Toronto Relationships Examiner has previously reported on this story, shining a light on some suspicious activity from the neighbors in question, and the mysterious behavior of a woman at a ranch that Erin and all other parties in these relationships frequented. It was reported that both Christopher Lee, and his wife Nicole had made peculiar statements to the ranch owner of the White Rock Horse Rescue Ranch that both Erin and Jonathan Corwin and their neighbors Christopher and Nicole had frequently attended.
Erin was known to be an animal lover, and was said to have a special affinity for horses in particular. After her disappearance, the owner of a ranch that Erin visited weekly told the media that she had a special knack for bringing animals to life. One horse in particular came to the ranch near death, and ranch owner Isabel Megli said that by the time Erin was through caring for her, the horse had gained almost 300 pounds.
It was not just this horse, but many other animals, that Erin breathed life into with love alone, through her short time on this Earth. After her disappearance, a friend told ABC News,
"She loved her horses and loved her family. She just always was laughing and having fun and trying to cheer people up."
The ranch in question has been under scrutiny since the disappearance of Erin Corwin, due to some peculiar statements made by the couple in question, and even also by the ranch owner Isabel Megli.
According to one of the first probable cause warrants in this case, Nicole Lee allegedly told Isabel that the police would "never find the body." One section of the first search warrants executed on Christopher Lee and his wife Nicole Lee, obtained by the Toronto Relationships Examiner reads,
"Isabel made comments that Nicole made statements to Isabel about the detectives having missed something at the residence during the search because the detectives did not search the garage. Nicole also told Isabella that without a body, the detectives did not have a case against them and the detectives would never find the body.
Nicole stated Lee was worried because he [Christopher] did not have an alibi for that timeframe. Nicole also berated Lee in front of Isabel about not being able to keep his lies straight when he was interviewed by detectives because he was dumb. She stated she was able to keep her story straight and the detectives did not get any information from her."
It is clear that Nicole thought she was smarter than her husband. Did she also think she was smarter than the police, and the FBI?
As it has sadly turned out, Nicole was wrong. Officials are also saying that the arrest of Christopher Lee may not be the only one, and have stated a "potential for more arrests" exists. Additional evidence found in the shaft that the police have not disclosed to the public yet, suggests that others may be implicated in this crime, and connected to the death of Erin Corwin.
Due to instruction from the military and the Marine Corps where both Christopher Lee and Jonathan Corwin worked, Jonathan Corwin had been ordered not to comment publicly on this case. A "Locate Erin" Facebook page had been put up since her disappearance, and a statement from that page today reads,
"Thank you all for your prayers and support over the last 7 weeks. We appreciate all of the words of encouragement and compassion we have been shown during the search for Erin. We are also forever grateful for the volunteers and branches of law enforcement who made it possible to finally bring Erin home.
Though we were praying for a different outcome, we are relieved to have this part of the investigation behind us and to be able to begin mourning the loss of our sweet girl. Please continue to pray for our family and that justice will be found for Erin. We now ask that our privacy be respected as we enter into this new stage of grief and healing. Thank you all!"
Christopher Lee and his wife Nichole booked it out of town as soon as suspicion began to mount against them. An arrest warrant for Christopher Lee had been issued shortly after the disappearance, but authorities could only hold him temporarily on charges of improper weapon possession charges, and he was ultimately released on bail on that charge.
Following his release, he was dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps, and he and his wife Nichole moved as far away from the scene of the crime as quickly as possible. At 9 P.M. Sunday Aug. 17, Christopher Lee was arrested on the suspicion of murder.
Jennifer Castro, a spokesperson for the Anchorage Police Department has stated that an extradition warrant has been put out for Christopher Lee to return him to San Bernardino County.
Whether or not Isabel Megli owner of the White Rock Horse Rescue Ranch in the Yucca Valley has been implicated in this case remains to be seen. When the case first broke, she appeared to be as helpful as possible, and was even the one that told police the damaging statements by Nicole about "never finding the body", among many others.
Since then, Isabel has changed her tune, suggesting she may have been trying to cover something up. She stated the statements she made in those regards were innocuous and benign, and that she was simply discussing cases with Nicole that were compared to Scott Peterson and his missing wife, as well as generic comparisons to crime shows on TV. She even claimed that her words were "twisted" by police.
"I can see how they could pick pieces of what I said, but I'm totally amazed at how they twisted it. Unfortunately, they twisted it a little much. When you find out people are missing, it brings up conversation and it was just conversation about no body, no case. Nicole did not refer to her husband or to this case. It was a generalization of a conversation of CSI, or Law and Order, and (Scott) Peterson."
In a case where a young woman is missing, and a family is frantic over her whereabouts and terrified that they will never see their loved one again, accusing the police of twisting your words can be seen as suspicious behavior. How much does really Isabel Megli know? After the disappearance, the Lee's allegedly stayed with her while the first set of warrants were being executed on their home, and shortly before they moved to Alaska.
Why would Isabel Megli change her story after the fact, if she did not know anything in connection to the disappearance of Erin Corwin? Will more information about Isabella's connection to this case come to light as this investigation presses forward?
What do you think about the ranch owner's two different version of events?
The police have stated that there are possible more arrests pending.
Will that be Nicole? Will Isabel Megli be arrested for obstruction?
The Toronto Relationships Examiner will be following this story to report those answers as they come to light as the investigation presses forward. In the meantime, the public sends prayers and condolences to a family that has been gripped with fear all summer, a family that can now use these answers obtained to fight for and seek justice for their beloved horse whisperer, Erin Corwin.


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